noun:

• type of alloy of copper and zinc (brass) with zinc at about 33-67% used to solder metals like copper and iron

noun / ~する noun:

• removing one's hat
• admiring someone greatly; "taking off one's hat" to someone

noun:

• using poisonous medication to control poison; fighting evil with evil; fighting fire with fire - four character idiom

expression:

• Just a short note to tell you ...; This will just be a short note - set formula of greeting used by a man at the beginning of a brief note - male language - four character idiom

noun:

• access to genetic resources and benefit sharing; Access and Benefit-Sharing; ABS

noun:

• actual state (of things); real state; actual condition; real condition; actual scene

~の noun:

• live; on-the-scene

noun / ~する noun:

• reporting live; live coverage; live broadcasting - abbreviation ➜ 実況放送

noun:

• order to buy or sell; buy-sell order

adjective:

• suspicious; dubious; doubtful; dodgy; suspicious (referring to a potential amorous relation); dangerous (e.g. financial situation); ominous (e.g. weather); strange; shady; fishy ［怪しい］
• charming; bewitching; mysterious ➜ いろっぽい

noun:

• growth; development
• stretching (one's body, e.g. when waking up)
• (ability to) spread (of paint, cream, etc.)
• elongation; extension; carry (e.g. of sound); sustain

noun:

• double-leaved printing (traditional East Asian books)
• sealed-page printing; magazine (esp. pornographic) with long side or all three sides sealed to prevent browsing
• dual page - IT term

expression / noun:

• red string of fate; in Chinese-Japanese folklore, fated lovers were said to be joined by an unseen red string, tied around one little finger of each

~と adverb / adverb:

• bang; bam; boom; thud; thump; crash - onomatopoeia

noun:

• noontime signal gun (early Meiji to early Showa); noontime signal shot

prefix:

• precisely; exactly; plumb; totally; very ➜ ど

suffix:

• Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; Ms.; -san ［どん］ - southern Kyushu equiv. of -さん - honorific language - familiar language ➜ 殿【どの】

noun:

• long homeroom; occasional or periodic extra long registration class or assembly in a school (e.g. for activities not related to class work) ➜ ホームルーム

adjective:

• terrible; dreadful
• amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); wonderful; terrific
• to a great extent; vast (in numbers)

noun / ~する noun:

• deep realization (realisation); profound realization
• one's faith being transmitted to a deity and one's wish then being granted
• unexpectedly obtaining something

noun:

• primary colour; primary color
• pure color; unmixed color; striking color
• original color (of a painting, etc. as opposed to a reproduction)

noun:

• purificatory font at shrines and temples
• kitchen
• cupboard
• room adjacent to a tea ceremony room, where utensils are washed
• vendor of drinking water
• building for taking refuge during a flood

noun:

• front and rear; front and back; before and behind; back and forth
• before and after

suffix noun:

• around; about; approximately

noun:

• order; context
• consequences
• just when; around the time of

noun / ~する noun:

• inversion; reversion; getting out of order
• co-occurring

noun:

• (Japanese) feature phone; traditional Japanese-style cell phone (in contrast to smart phones); "Galapagos" cell phone (Japanese brand) - abbreviation - colloquialism ➜ ガラパゴス化

noun:

• young man (in the Edo period, esp. one with forelocks who has not yet had his coming-of-age ceremony)
• young male prostitute; young kabuki actor (who may also act as a homosexual prostitute)
• younger partner in a homosexual relationship ➜ 念者【ねんしゃ】

noun / ~する noun:

• visit to a shrine or temple; paying homage at a shrine or temple

noun:

• room for rent (lease); room to let; office space for rent (lease)

noun:

• shuttle bus; pickup bus; courtesy bus; hotel bus; bus service connecting a station, airport, etc. to a hotel or tourist attraction

noun / ~の noun:

• tone-deafness; amusia; having no ear for music

adjectival noun:

• tone-deaf; off-key

suffix:

• having no sense (of something); being hopeless (when it comes to something)

noun:

• dance where a female dancer dresses up as a man (late Heian to early Kamakura period)
• noh dance performed by a man without a mask