noun:

• small shell; small shellfish ➜ 貝偏
• kanji "shell" radical at left

expression:

• goes without saying; needn't be said ➜ 言わずもがな
• should rather be left unsaid

expression / noun:

• something that goes without saying; something that needn't be said
• something that should rather be left unsaid

noun:

• Grand Tutor (second of the top three civil positions of the Zhou Dynasty)
• Minister of the Left (official in Nara and Heian periods) ➜ 左大臣

noun / ~の noun:

• shopworn goods; dead stock; shelf warmer
• being left unresolved for a long time (e.g. a problem); being shelved - often as 〜が店晒しになる or 〜を店晒しにする

noun:

• lower part; foot; lower direction
• left part of the stage (audience's or camera's POV); stage right (actor's POV)

noun:

• increasing daily; increasing day by day
• foodstuffs left out for many days ➜ 日増し物

noun:

• paste similar to miso made from koji mold and salt water
• watery mash left over from making soy sauce

noun:

• miso lees; miso strainings; miso dregs
• child who is made light of; child who is left out of games; immature child or person; good-for-nothing

noun:

• was ［ワズ］
• was just in; just left; just did - esp. in Twitter - slang

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to miss (a train, bus, etc.)
• to fail to keep up with (e.g. the times); to be left behind by

interjection:

• not yet!; cry by the referee when one wrestler is on the attack - Sumo term

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• remaining; left-over

noun:

• six copies
• Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan) - abbreviation ➜ 六十六部

noun:

• hanging; something hanging (i.e. a flap, lappet, etc.)
• sauce for dipping, etc. made from soy sauce, mirin, vinegar and dashi - also タレ - usually written using kana alone
• (in kendo) loin guard
• kanji radical enclosing the top-left corner of a character

suffix noun:

• -ass; -head - used after a noun or na-adjective indicating someone's nature; also ったれ - derogatory term

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• absence; being away from home

noun / ~する noun:

• house-sitting; house-sitter

noun:

• being left unattended to (of one's studies, etc.); neglecting - usu. as お留守になる

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to float
• to become merry; to be cheerful ➜ 浮かぬ顔
• to become loose; to become unsteady
• to feel out of it; to be cut off (e.g. from those around you); to feel out of place - colloquialism
• to be frivolous; to be uncertain
• to have (time, money, etc.) left over; to be saved (e.g. money)
• to have no basis; to be unreliable

noun / ~する noun:

• wind blowing down, coming over a mountain

noun:

• immediately after one's draw - Mahjong term
• winning off a discarded tile from the player to one's right or across the table on the turn after letting one's winning tile go by from the player to one's left - Mahjong term

noun / prefix noun:

• chicken bones (e.g. for soup); chicken carcass ➜ 鶏がら

noun:

• poor-quality coke (coal)

suffix:

• left-overs; remnants

noun:

• luminous body like a shooting star
• any bright metal
• sliced fish with the silver skin left on (iwashi, aji, sayori, sanma, kohada, etc.)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to leak out; to escape; to come through; to shine through; to filter out
• to find expression; to give vent
• to leak out; to be divulged; to be disclosed
• to be omitted; to be left out; to be excluded; to be not included

noun:

• red; red color (colour) - usu. あかいろ

~の noun / adjectival noun:

• red-colored; red - usu. せきしょく

noun / ~の noun:

• communism; the left ［せきしょく］

noun:

• southern barbarians (formerly used by the Chinese to refer to non-ethnic Chinese to the south) - archaism - derogatory term
• South-East Asia - archaism
• Western Europe (esp. Spain and Portugal, their South-East Asian colonies, and their goods and people arriving in Japan via the colonies) - archaism ➜ 紅毛

prefix:

• exotic (esp. Western European or South-East Asian style)

noun:

• (in dance, puppetry, etc.) thrusting the right foot and right arm forward at the same time (or left foot and left arm) - usu.ナンバ
• food prepared using chili peppers or Welsh onions - abbreviation ➜ 南蛮煮【なんばんに】