noun:

• purple Washington clam (Saxidomus purpurata)
• type of pomelo with red-purple flesh

noun:

• chakra; centers of spiritual power in the human body, in Indian thought - From Sanskrit

noun:

• cinquefoil (Potentilla matsumurae); potentilla; Japanese alpine perennial of the rose family

noun:

• backside part of the shamisen's neck where it meets the body

noun:

• outdoor unit (esp. of an air conditioner, i.e. condenser); outdoor machinery

noun:

• markdown (e.g. of prices)
• Markdown; simple markup language for creating HTML - IT term

noun:

• high-quality buckwheat flour (made only using the center of the grain)

expression:

• paying no heed to; not caring about; taking no notice of ➜ 気に留める

noun:

• tortoiseshell sauce; thickened sauce of dashi, soy, mirin, etc. - Food term

expression:

• wrong; not good; of no use ➜ 行けない【いけない】
• hopeless; past hope ➜ 行けない【いけない】
• must not do ➜ 行けない【いけない】

noun:

• froufrou; frou frou; frilly decoration - From French
• Furfur; Furtur; mythical great Earl of Hell - From Latin

noun:

• pieces of crab prepared for use in shabu-shabu (usu. claw meat) - Food term ➜ しゃぶしゃぶ

noun:

• ranking vice-minister in the Department of Worship (ritsuryo system); deputy minister - archaism ➜ 大輔【たいふ】

noun / ~する noun:

• sudden emergence; sudden formation; coming out of nowhere; bursting onto the scene - slang

noun:

• Congo Free State (1885-1908 name of the Belgian Congo)

noun:

• service in the second reserve; military reserve force comprised of ex-servicemen

noun:

• plan for the invasion of the Soviet Far East in July 1941 - abbreviation

ichidan verb:

• to be used to eating; to become used to eating; to be accustomed to eating; to acquire a taste for

expression / ichidan verb:

• to put one's palms together (e.g. when praying or asking for something); to place one's hands together
• to compete against somebody; to play (a game, match, etc.) against somebody - idiom

noun:

• striking sparks with flint and steel or by rubbing sticks together (usu. to start a fire); fire lit by sparks from flint and steel, etc. ➜ 鑽る
• Shinto fire-purification ceremony - Shintō term

noun:

• financially scraping by; meagre existence (meager); hand to mouth existence
• living one's life without plan; living life day-by-day; taking life one day at a time

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to pull up; to drag up; to lift up
• to increase; to raise (e.g. taxes)
• to withdraw; to leave; to pull out; to retire
• to promote (someone to a higher position)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to return home

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to expedite the schedule - archaism

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to demarcate; to delimit; to divide (an area); to mark off; to cut off - esp. 区切る
• to punctuate; to put an end to (e.g. a sentence); to insert pauses or breaks (e.g. when reading aloud) - esp. 句切る

expression / ichidan verb:

• to greet; to call out (to); to start talking (to)
• to invite; to get in touch (with); to give a shout (to); to let (somebody) know (one is in the area or has time to meet, etc.)
• to cheer (on); to give vocal support (to)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to fray one's nerves; to wear out one's nerves; to frazzle one's nerves; to be a nervous wreck