noun:

• paper and sacred sakaki branches cut and mixed with rice to scatter before the gods

noun:

• final cut severing a wrestler's top-knot in his retirement ceremony - Sumo term

noun:

• umbrella cut

noun:

• cut-up charcoal

noun:

• vienna sausage cut in the shape of an octopus

noun:

• retirement ceremony of a wrestler where his top-knot is cut - Sumo term

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be perfectly clear

noun:

• clear memory function - IT term

noun:

• clear-air turbulence

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to clear up

noun:

• clear weather after a typhoon has passed - four character idiom

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to cut up small

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be clear-headed; to be brainy - often prenom. as 頭のさえた ➜ 頭がさえる【あたまがさえる】

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to clear (land); to open up; to cut through

noun:

• wave-cut platform; abrasion platform; coastal bench - Geology term ➜ 波食棚・波食台

noun:

• calm abiding and clear observation (Tendai meditation) - Buddhism term
• Tendai ➜ 天台宗

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• clear; bright; plain; obvious - obscure term

expression:

• clear as day; perfectly obvious; plain as daylight ➜ 火を見るより明らかである【ひをみるよりあきらかである】

noun / ~する noun:

• electricity cut-off

adjectival noun:

• clear; bright; sunny

expression:

• there must be a clear distinction between the upper and lower classes; even new shoes must not be worn on the head [literal] - proverb

noun / adjectival noun:

• simple and clear - four character idiom

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to cut down all; to slash promiscuously

adjectival noun:

• obvious; clear; plain; evident; apparent; explicit; overt

expression / ichidan verb:

• to go to one's heart; to cut one to the quick; to give one a deep impression; to clutch at one's heartstrings; to hit home; to strike home; to strike a chord; to strike a note