noun:

• pivot hinge (using extensions on the top & bottom of a door that fit into cavities in the frame)
• sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut) ➜ 猿

suffix:

• honorific suffix used after the name of a woman of equal or higher status - honorific language

noun:

• advertising the excellence of one's wares; boasting; self-advertisement
• statement of the virtues of a medicine; description of the virtues of a drug ➜ 効能書き【こうのうがき】

noun:

• revised edition (of a book or manuscript); authoritative edition; standard edition; edition incorporating many changes and corrections
• final version of a book as edited by the author; revised edition of a book as edited by the author

noun:

• word of recent origin; neologism; recent word; modern term ➜ 新語

noun:

• name of a or the Buddha

noun:

• assembly at the end of the day (at a company or school, etc.) ➜ 朝礼【ちょうれい】

noun:

• small pillars supporting the main pillars of a torii or a temple gate

noun:

• modifier of a non-inflectable word - Linguistics term

pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about the actions of the listener, or about ideas expressed or understood by the listener); like that; that sort of ➜ あんな・こんな・どんな

pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about the actions of the listener, or about ideas expressed or understood by the listener); like that; that sort of - Hiroshima dialect ➜ そんな

pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about the actions of the listener, or about ideas expressed or understood by the listener); like that; that sort of - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ そんな

noun / ~の noun:

• position in a game of go or shogi; state of the game
• aspect of an affair; situation

noun:

• the fate of a nation; life-or-death (situation) for a nation; national crisis - four character idiom

noun:

• ceremony on the fifth day of the 10th lunar month in which the emperor would watch prize archery (Heian and Kamakura periods)
• first firing of the bow (after the New Year or the reconstruction of the archery range (in military families))

noun / suffix:

• stuffing; packing - づめ when a suffix

noun:

• end (esp. the foot of a bridge)
• lowest-ranking guest at tea ceremony
• tea master
• endgame (esp. in shogi or used figuratively)
• sweet eel sauce - abbreviation
• middle-aged woman - archaism

suffix noun:

• appointment to a particular workplace
• using as the sole ground of judgement (judgment)
• continuing; keep doing for period of time - after the -masu stem of a verb

~する verb (irregular):

• to do; to carry out; to perform
• to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into)
• to serve as; to act as; to work as
• to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
• to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as - as 〜にする,〜とする
• to decide on; to choose - as 〜にする

~する verb (irregular) / intransitive verb:

• to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.) - as 〜がする
• to be (in a state, condition, etc.)
• to be worth; to cost
• to pass (of time); to elapse

~する verb (irregular) / transitive:

• to place, or raise, person A to a post or status B - as AをBにする
• to transform A to B; to make A into B; to exchange A for B - as AをBにする
• to make use of A for B; to view A as B; to handle A as if it were B - as AをBにする
• to feel A about B - as AをBにする

suffix / ~する verb (irregular):

• verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs")

auxiliary verb / ~する verb (irregular):

• creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go") ➜ お願いします・御
• to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to; to attempt to - as 〜うとする,〜ようとする ➜ とする

noun:

• note written on the reverse of the right side of an ancient document (memorandum or explanation of the contents) - archaism

noun:

• the feel or performance of a pen

noun:

• fish sauce made of salted and fermented sardines, mackerel, or squid; a specialty of the Noto Peninsula of Ishikawa Prefecture

noun:

• small roof (e.g. over the first storey of a building, a window, an attached shed or veranda, etc.); overhang ➜ 大屋根

noun:

• heddle; heald; part of a loom, a wire or cord with an eye, through which the warp threads are threaded

noun:

• word ending
• slip of the tongue

noun:

• point (of a conversation, etc.); sense
• hold; grip

noun:

• optic or photic sense