noun:

• consumption of goods and services by young working adults who live at home, with their basic living expenses covered by their parents; nest-dweller consumption [literal]

noun:

• anonymous scholarship system for orphans whose parents have been killed in traffic accidents (from Daddy-Long-Legs, a 1912 novel by Jean Webster) ➜ 大蚊
• harvestman; daddy longlegs (arachnid of order Opiliones)

expression / noun / ~の noun:

• (something) not coming together (as one had hoped or expected); unfortunate turn of events; unexpected turn; (a) crossbill's beak (which has differently shaped upper and lower parts) [literal] - often as ～の食い違い (with the same meaning) - idiom ➜ 交喙

noun / ~の noun:

• remainder; remnant; rest; balance; surplus; remains (of a meal); leftovers ［あまり］

adverb:

• not very; not much - with neg. sentence
• too much; excessively; overly - esp. as あまりに(も) ➜ あまりに・の余り【のあまり】

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• extreme; great; severe; tremendous; terrible

suffix noun:

• more than; over ［あまり］

noun / suffix noun:

• child
• young (animal) ➜ 仔【こ】
• young woman; young geisha - also 娘
• offshoot
• interest ➜ 元も子もない
• new shares - abbreviation ➜ 子株

noun:

• player who is not a dealer (in cards, mahjong, etc.) ➜ 親【おや】

noun / suffix noun:

• bird egg - archaism

suffix noun:

• -er (often of young women) - after a noun or -masu stem

noun / ~する noun:

• shift away from manufacturing to an information and service-based economy - Economics term
• softening
• release (e.g. of a movie) on home video (e.g. DVD, BD, VHS)

noun:

• expanded system of guilt by association in Japanese election law, which stipulates that an elected official may lose his position if someone in his campaign commits a crime ➜ 連座制

noun / ~する noun / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• targetting; aiming at a specific target; pinpointing

noun / ~する noun:

• selective hitting; swinging only at certain types of pitches - Baseball term
• having no choice in a move (e.g. mahjong, go, etc.)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to manage; to control; to run; to handle
• to cut carelessly (of a cook, surgeon, etc.); to slash about - also written as 斬り回す
• to cut around - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• saving water; water conservation; conservation of water

expression / adjective:

• of poor quality; poor-quality; inferior quality

noun:

• conical hat (East-Asian style); coolie hat
• something shaped like a conical hat or an umbrella; shade (of a lamp); mushroom cap; pileus ➜ 傘【かさ】

noun:

• stock (in grafting)
• wood used as a platform (or base, etc.); block (i.e. chopping block); (gun) stock; unworked block of wood

noun:

• sō-on; Song reading; on reading of a kanji based on Song dynasty and later Chinese (esp. in words related to Zen Buddhism) ➜ 唐音【とうおん】・宋【そう】

noun:

• classical form of i-adjective inflection (easily recognized by its attributive form ending in "ki" and predicative form ending in "shi")

noun:

• classical form of i-adjective inflection (easily recognized by its attributive form ending in "shiki" and predicative form ending in "shi")

noun:

• using one's chopsticks to jump from side dish to side dish without pausing to eat rice in between (a breach of etiquette) ➜ 渡り箸

noun:

• using one's chopsticks to jump from side dish to side dish without pausing to eat rice in between (a breach of etiquette) ➜ 移り箸

expression / ichidan verb:

• to break off with (e.g. one's lover) - idiom
• to be sharp enough to cut one's skin (of a new banknote, etc.)

noun:

• head
• hair (on one's head)
• mind; brains; intellect ［あたま］
• leader; chief; boss; captain
• top; tip
• beginning; start
• head; person ［あたま］
• top structural component of a kanji ［かしら］
• pair ［あたま］ - colloquialism - Mahjong term ➜ 雀頭【ジャントー】

adverbial noun / noun:

• space (between); gap; interval; distance

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• time (between); pause; break

adverbial noun / noun / temporal noun:

• span (temporal or spatial); stretch; period (while)

adverbial noun / noun:

• relationship (between, among)
• members (within, among)

conjunction:

• due to; because of ［あいだ］ - archaism

noun:

• emerald tree monitor (Varanus prasinus, species of arboreal carnivorous monitor lizard found from New Guinea to Queensland, Australia); green tree monitor

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to affect a serene mood; to affect a serious demeanor; to act prudishly; to assume an air of superiority

expression:

• with no regard to one's appearances; with no concern of how one's act looks like

noun:

• first-time customer (of an inn or a restaurant); chance customer; customer without an introduction from a regular customer ➜ 一見の客・一見客