noun:

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

noun:

• joint party (e.g. by students from several colleges); combined party; mixer; two or more groups, esp. female and male students, combining for a party ➜ 合コン

noun / ~する noun:

• joint party (e.g. by students from several colleges); combined party; mixer; two or more groups, esp. female and male students, combining for a party - abbreviation ➜ 合同コンパ

noun:

• social organisation for people originating from the same town, village, or island who live in an urban center far from home (predominantly used by people from Okinawa)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to learn by experience; to learn one's lesson; to learn the hard way
• to have enough (of); to be disgusted with

noun:

• (automotive) assembly - abbreviation
• man who drives a woman around for free; man used by a woman for his car - from 足 - slang

noun:

• forced reduction of a daimyo's land by the Edo Shogunate; curtailment of a daimyo's domain - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• reaching a decision by using a circular letter; reaching a decision via a document circulated to all employees

noun:

• double slap in the face (second slap administered by the return motion of the back of the hand)

noun:

• forming a four-of-a-kind by adding a self-drawn tile to an open three-of-a-kind - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 加槓・槓

noun:

• land received in compensation for one's service; land given by a lord to a vassal for his service - archaism

noun:

• land received in compensation for one's service; land given by a lord to a vassal for his service ➜ 恩地

noun:

• festival (shrine visit) by children aged 7, 5 and 3
• lucky numbers 7, 5 and 3

noun / ~する noun:

• scraping together (a sum of money); raising (a sum of money) by straining one's credit - four character idiom

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to take offense (at); to take offence (at); to feel hurt (by)

noun:

• brightness of snow; reflected light of snow; (by) snow light

adverb / ~の noun / noun:

• from season to season; season by season; of each season; in each season - four character idiom

noun:

• Aum Shinrikyo incidents; string of incidents, crimes, etc. committed by the Aum Shinrikyo religious group in the 1980s

expression / noun:

• the Four Freedoms (as defined by Franklin D. Roosevelt: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear)

noun:

• heliox; gas mixture of helium and oxygen; often hypoxic gas mix used by divers; medical gas used for its low density and easy breathing

noun:

• Zen stick (used by a Zen priest to strike an inattentive Zazen sitter); warning stick (Rinzai Zen); encouragement stick (Soto Zen) - called けいさく in Rinzai Zen, きょうさく in Soto Zen - abbreviation ➜ 警覚策励・座禅
• horsewhip ［けいさく］

noun:

• Osaka Conference; meeting held by the leaders of the Meiji Restoration in Osaka to discuss the formation of a representative assembly (January-February, 1875)

noun:

• standard measurement for the distance between pillars in the Kansai area (approx. 197 cm) ➜ 田舎間
• Kyoto-size tatami mat (approx. 190 cm by 95 cm) ➜ 田舎間

expression:

• now rejoicing, now worrying; swinging from joy to sorrow; glad and sad by turns; alternating hope and fear; unable to put one's mind at ease - four character idiom

noun:

• door-to-door manzai; form of comedy orig. performed at people's homes by entertainers during the New Year festivities; precursor to modern day manzai ➜ 漫才