adjectival noun:

• nonsensical; unreasonable; absurd; unrealistic - four character idiom
• awfully; extremely; to excess; senseless; reckless

noun / adjectival noun:

• disorder; confusion; being jumbled; being mixed up

adverb:

• very; extremely; excessively - colloquialism

noun / ~する noun / intransitive verb:

• looking up to a person as one's own master or model; being influenced by a person through his works; idolizing

expression:

• Defeat is inevitable for an overconfident army; Being arrogant and overconfident inevitably leads to defeat (failure); Pride comes before a fall - four character idiom

noun:

• entrance exam for a university giving preference to persons who excel in one special field (skill); one-talent oriented entrance examination - four character idiom

noun:

• one's business - archaism - polite language
• reading of scriptures before a (statue of) Buddha
• bargain; discount
• money paid to a prostitute or geisha

noun:

• nailist; someone whose occupation is to cut any type of nail, apply artificial nails (or "nail art") and care for nails

noun:

• notched bamboo rod rubbed with an implement similar to a bamboo whisk (used as a percussion instrument) ➜ 簓
• wooden vertical batten

noun:

• large bird
• peng (in Chinese mythology, giant bird said to transform from a fish) - esp. 鵬 ➜ 鵬【ほう】
• fenghuang (Chinese phoenix) - esp. 鳳 and 凰 as male and female respectively ➜ 鳳凰

noun:

• on-off timer (i.e. to automatically turn an electrical device on and off at specified times)

noun:

• Mozambique tilapia (tilapiine cichlid fish native to southern Africa, Oreochromis mossambicus)

expression:

• I quit!; I'm out!; declaring one quits, mainly used in children's games - children's language - Ōsaka dialect

noun / counter:

• nth person to quit a game - children's language - Ōsaka dialect

noun:

• longing for someone or something; waiting for someone of great talent to arrive; stretching one's neck and standing on tiptoes [literal] - four character idiom

expression:

• paper lanterns and temple bells (esp. as an example of two things looking similar on the outside, but of a completely different nature); (like) chalk and cheese; you can't judge a book by its cover - obscure term ➜ 月と鼈【つきとすっぽん】

noun / ~する noun:

• lead; leading; taking the lead

noun:

• lead (of a newspaper, etc.); lede
• lead (wire)
• lead (e.g. dog); leash
• reed (of a woodwind, etc.)
• lied; German song, usu. for solo voice & piano - From German "Lied" ➜ リート

noun / ~する noun:

• read; reading

noun:

• deviation-value-oriented education; education focussed on test results; education that stresses studying and passing exams to raise one's ranking; academic cramming

noun:

• no game; game that is stopped before it can be considered an official game (e.g. due to rainout) - Baseball term

noun:

• measuring container; measure
• box (seating at a theatre, etc.)
• square on a grid; cell of a grid - esp. マス
• square bearing block (at the top of a pillar) ［斗］

noun:

• person who moves a lot for their job; family who moves a lot for the primary breadwinner's job

noun:

• Japanese league; ri; old Japanese unit of distance, approx. 3.927km or 2.44 miles
• neighbourhood (under the ritsuryo system; orig. of 50 homes) ➜ 郷里制・国郡里制
• unit of area (approx. 654m by 654m) ➜ 条里制

~と adverb / adverb / ~する noun:

• being moved (to tears); being touched (by); becoming sentimental - onomatopoeia

~と adverb / adverb:

• (falling) softly (of leaves, petals, etc.) - onomatopoeia

~と adverb / adverb / ~する noun:

• becoming slightly drunk; becoming tipsy - onomatopoeia

noun:

• technique of holding one's opponent's arm to prevent him from getting a hold on one's belt - Sumo term

noun:

• dressed bread; bread to which something has been added (sandwich, pirogi, etc.); stuffed bread (rolls, buns, etc.)

expression:

• filial piety begins with not harming one's own body (as one's entire body was given by one's parents) (from The Classic of Filial Piety)

noun / ~の noun:

• putting one's life on the line; staking one's life (on); risking one's life; life and death situation ➜ 命をかける

expression:

• all men are alike; all lives are alike; all men live and die; we all bleed the same; a pike conger has one life, a shrimp does too [literal] - proverb