noun:

• individual plate; single individual's small dish on which food taken from shared serving dishes is placed

noun:

• legend over a picture; inscription (legend, writing) on a painting

noun:

• my mixi; refers to the 'friend list' on mixi (or people on that list) ➜ マイミク

noun:

• half lotus position (meditation posture); sitting with one foot placed on the opposite thigh - abbreviation ➜ 半跏趺坐

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to press for an answer; to shower questions on someone

noun / ~する noun:

• accompanying; being in attendance on

noun:

• inner offerer (any of the 10 high-ranking monks serving at the inner offering hall) - abbreviation ➜ 内供奉

noun:

• no-manjū; Okinawan sweet manjū with hiragana "no" written on it

noun:

• forelock; hair on top of the head

godan ~る verb:

• to be pretentious; to put on airs

noun:

• Red and White singing contest; annual contest between male and female popular singers on New Year's Eve (sponsored and broadcast by NHK)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to label; to put a tag on

noun:

• hypotenuse; oblique line - Mathematics term

noun:

• railroad track; rail line

expression / ichidan verb:

• to resolve to do; to make up one's mind to do; to set one's heart on; to have one's heart set on

~と adverb / adverb:

• with a roaring sound (of water or wind); sound of feet stamping on the ground - onomatopoeia

interjection:

• whoa! (command used to stop or quieten down a horse, etc.) ➜ どう

noun:

• parole; release on bail

noun:

• live wire; hot line (as in electrical hot-line working)

noun:

• virtuous government; government founded on good morals

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to spring at; to leap upon; to swoop down on; to throw oneself upon (e.g. an enemy)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to screw up; to put the screws on (a person)
• to constrict (someone, something)

adverb / noun:

• the deepest bottom of the earth; never; not ... at all; on no account; for all the world; till doomsday

noun:

• phone duty; being on call

expression:

• something that comes too late and is useless; like a chrysanthemum prepared for the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar for the Chrysanthemum festival but that blooms only on the tenth ➜ 重陽

noun:

• radiation genetics; study of the effects of radiation on genes

~の noun:

• self-centered; stuck on oneself