noun:

• chopping finely; slicing up finely
• something chopped up finely

noun:

• Japanese noctule (Nyctalus furvus)

noun:

• Indigofera pseudotinctoria (species of legume)

noun:

• (plant's) new bulb
• new stocks; new shares

noun:

• clasp

noun:

• public key - IT term

noun:

• increase in speed, acceleration - IT term

noun:

• rising cloud of (yellowish) dust - four character idiom

noun:

• auspicious characters (used in people or place names)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to bend one's head slightly to one side; to look slightly doubtful ➜ 小首を傾げる【こくびをかしげる】

noun:

• metropolitan city (South Korea)

noun:

• bustle; crinolette; patch lining the seat (kimono)
• hip pad (football) - Sports term
• loin guard (armor); tasse

expression:

• small bag and young woman [literal]
• like a small bag seems to be able to contain few items yet can be stuffed with many, a young woman seems inexpensive to bring up yet can end up costing a lot
• a young woman and a small bag are both fragile and great care must be taken with both of them

noun:

• osteoblastoma

noun:

• executive positions in the civil service

noun:

• rakugo stage name ➜ 落語

noun:

• very shrewd in preparing a means of escape; being very good at escaping danger - four character idiom

noun:

• adhesion; agglutination

noun:

• aberration - Astronomy term

noun:

• silkworm droppings

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to fall over; to fall down; to fall; to collapse
• to flop (e.g. of a play); to be a flop

noun:

• structure preserving

noun:

• playing cards
• mahjong tiles made of animal bone - Mahjong term

noun:

• International Phonetic Alphabet; IPA - Linguistics term

noun:

• hyperbaric oxygen therapy