noun:

• scattering bait to attract fish; bait for scattering

noun:

• feeling of belonging to; sense of belonging

noun / ~する noun:

• entering a village; moving to a village

noun / ~する noun:

• coming to a castle; visiting a castle

adjective:

• old; aged; ancient; antiquated; antique; timeworn - of things, not people
• long; since long ago; time-honored
• of the distant past; long-ago
• stale; threadbare; hackneyed; corny
• old-fashioned; outmoded; out-of-date

~と adverb / noun:

• clap (sound of wooden clappers) - onomatopoeia ➜ ちょんちょん
• chop vigorously ➜ ちょん切る
• slight movement (e.g. poke, small bird alighting) ➜ ちょんちょん
• the end; originally end of a play, marked by clap of clappers ➜ ちょんになる

noun:

• dot (esp. typographical) ➜ ちょんちょん

expression:

• You must seize every golden opportunity; Strike while the iron is hot; When you find a rare good buy, seize upon it for a future sale at a much higher price - four character idiom

noun:

• fishing stand; small portable stand that can be assembled quickly
• stand used to transport people or things (Edo period)

noun:

• savanna monitor (Varanus exanthematicus, species of carnivorous monitor lizard native to sub-Saharan Africa); Bosc's monitor ➜ サバンナモニター

noun:

• black-headed monitor (Varanus tristis, small species of carnivorous monitor lizard native to Australia); freckled monitor

expression:

• mixture of wheat and chaff; mixture of the good and bad; jumble of wheat and tares - four character idiom

noun:

• one's usual practice; one's old trick; one's usual modus operandi; the same old tactic - four character idiom

suffix:

• style; manner
• after (period of time) again (e.g. meeting again after a year); for the first time in (period of time) ➜ 久しぶり【ひさしぶり】

adjectival noun / ~の noun / noun:

• stormy and full of drama; many drastic events in the course of events; full of ups and downs; with many vicissitudes - four character idiom

noun:

• age of a young lady who is at the peak of her (sexual) attractiveness; marriable age (of a young lady); sweet sixteen

noun:

• the four major pollution-caused illnesses (Minamata disease, Niigata Minamata disease, Yokkaichi asthma, Itai-itai disease); four big pollution diseases of Japan ➜ 水俣病・第二水俣病・四日市ぜんそく・イタイイタイ病

expression:

• no matter how you put it; whatever the circumstances may be; say what you like; no matter how you look at it

noun:

• lower part; foot; lower direction
• left part of the stage (audience's or camera's POV); stage right (actor's POV)

expression:

• cannot do a thing; feeling handcuffed; being at the end of one's tether; being at one's wit's end

noun:

• (young) man adhering to a masculine version of gyaru fashion (usually marked by hair dyed brown or blond, gaudy clothes and accessories) ➜ ギャル

noun:

• kiss and cry; area in an ice rink where figure skaters wait for their marks to be announced - Sports term

expression / adjective:

• intolerable; unbearable; unendurable
• irresistible; tremendous; out of this world
• cannot help (doing); cannot but do; anxious to do - after te-form of verbs and adj.

noun:

• document; writing; letter; paperwork; note; records; archives
• document addressed to someone in particular (jargon used in paleography) ［もんじょ］

noun / ~する noun:

• reference; bibliographical reference; consultation; browsing (e.g. when selecting a file to upload on a computer); checking out

noun / ~する noun:

• entertaining with food and drink; treating to dinner; wining and dining
• immediately agreeing with someone else; pandering ➜ 迎合【げいごう】