noun:

• large sake cup

noun / ~する noun:

• gulping down a drink; taking a swig at something

noun:

• low entrance (usually, but not always, to a teahouse) with a tiled archway overhead

suffix:

• suffix indicating room size (following a number of tatami mats and a counter)

noun:

• fabless; without fabrication facilities (esp. a semiconductor company that does not own a factory) - From English "fabless"

expression:

• cream rises to the top; a drill in a bag (will always poke through) [literal] - proverb

noun:

• downstage right pillar (on a noh stage) used as a positioning guidepost for actors

noun:

• stylishness (esp. of a woman working at a nightclub, etc.); sophistication; refinement; class; style

noun:

• loading goods on a truck - From English "vanning"
• remodelling a station wagon, light van, etc.

expression / adjective:

• unable to move; held up; swamped; stuck between a rock and a hard place - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• staying for two or more nights in a row (e.g. at a hotel)

noun:

• challenging members of a dojo to a fight and demanding money upon winning

noun / ~する noun:

• helping a long-term employee to establish a branch of the same shop

noun:

• root (of a plant)
• root (of a tooth, hair, etc.); center (of a pimple, etc.)
• root (of all evil, etc.); source; origin; cause; basis
• one's true nature
• (fishing) reef

noun:

• large cloth sack
• baggy trousers (worn in the late-Edo and early-Meiji periods by samurai while practising)

noun:

• countryside dialect - Linguistics term
• sociolect or secret language used by prostitutes in red-light districts during the Edo period - Linguistics term

noun:

• jue (ancient 3-legged Chinese wine pitcher, usu. made of bronze)
• peerage (hereditary title bestowed by the emperor)

noun:

• three-pronged vajra flung by Kukai on his return from China to determine the Holy Land of Esoteric Buddism - Buddhism term

proper noun:

• Chinese Taipei; name used by the Republic of China (Taiwan) when participating in international competitions

adverb:

• one by one; one after another; successively

noun / ~の noun:

• reflected image; mirror image
• math image by inversion

noun:

• every single word and phrase; word by word - four character idiom

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to like; to prefer; to be pleased by - obscure term ➜ お気に召す

noun:

• statutory interest; legal interest; interest set by law

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to take by surprise; to startle; to shock

noun:

• seed (e.g. of a plant); pip; kind; variety; quality; tone
• material (e.g. for an article); matter (e.g. of a story); subject; theme; (news) copy
• ingredient; leaven (bread); main ingredient of a sushi - Food term
• cause; source
• trick; secret; magician's trick; inside story
• paternal blood; lineage ➜ 胤
• breed (of a stock); sperm; semen