noun / ~する noun:

• employment of workers through (personal) connections; getting a job through one's personal connection - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• amicable resignation (retirement); resigning (retiring) from one's job of one's free will - four character idiom

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be full of (e.g. adventure, youth, energy); to be overflowing with

noun:

• distance between two points; distance between opposite supports of arch, bridge; span

noun:

• Soviet Union; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; USSR - abbreviation ➜ ソビエト社会主義共和国連邦【ソビエトしゃかいしゅぎきょうわこくれんぽう】

~と adverb / ~たる adjective:

• happy; elated; good mood; pleasant feelings

adjectival noun:

• cured (of an illness); recovered (from an illness)

noun:

• foreign ship (originally only of Dutch ships, but later referring to all foreign ships) - archaism - colloquialism

noun:

• mu (Chinese measure of land area, formerly ~600 m.sq., currently ~667 m.sq.) - obscure term ➜ 畝【せ】

noun:

• waterweed (any aquatic plant of genus Elodea, esp. common waterweed, Elodea canadensis)

noun:

• mottled spinefoot (Siganus fuscescens, species of Western Pacific rabbitfish); dusky rabbitfish; sandy spinefoot

noun:

• four orders of Buddhist followers (monks, nuns, male lay devotees and female lay devotees) - obscure term ➜ 四衆

noun:

• imperialisation policy (esp. on Korea during Japan's colonial rule) (imperialization); policy of imperialisation

noun:

• facial gesture of pulling one's eyelid down and sticking out one's tongue

noun:

• bluespine unicornfish (Naso unicornis, species of Indo-Pacific tang); bluespine surgeonfish; short-nose unicornfish

noun:

• Pacific spadefish (Chaetodipterus zonatus, species of Eastern Pacific spadefish found from California to Peru)

noun:

• Folk Shinto (term used by Reform Shintoists to refer to sects of syncretized Shinto) ➜ 復古神道

noun:

• Red List (e.g. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species)

noun:

• strategy guide (book, e.g. for a video game); playing guide; book of hints

noun:

• sweetened sweet potato fries; fried strips of sweet potato coated with sugar

expression:

• figuratively speaking; metaphorically speaking; so to speak; to use a figure of speech

noun:

• charcoal made from thin branches
• charcoal sold in bulk (instead of in straw bags) ➜ 散【ばら】

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to remain in memory (of sounds and words); to linger in one's ears

noun:

• vinyl-sheathed vinyl-insulated flat cable (type of solid-core copper cable)

~の noun / noun:

• ordinary; common; usual
• free of charge - only 只
• unaffected; as is; safe - usu. as ただでは...

adverb:

• only; merely; just; simply

conjunction:

• but; however; nevertheless - esp. 但

noun:

• (outward) appearance
• (proper) format (e.g. of an essay); form; style
• appearances; decency; show; display
• lip-service; insincere words; glib talk