noun:

• fortress (surrounded by a wall, moat, etc.)

noun:

• first stools passed by a newborn baby; meconium

noun:

• reservoir; lake formed by a dam

noun:

• feudal domain owned by a Tokugawa family branch

noun:

• winning by picking up a discarded tile - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• winning by picking up a discarded tile - abbreviation - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ ロンホー

expression:

• don't judge a book by its cover - proverb

noun:

• trade promotion by a government or industrial leader - From English "top sales"

expression:

• in a flash; in no time

noun:

• formal, usually black, kimono with designs along the bottom of the skirt worn by married women on ceremonial occasions; married woman's ceremonial kimono

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to try and reach above one's station and fail; to try and accomplish something beyond one's abilities and fail; a monkey tries to catch the moon (and drowns) [literal] - idiom ➜ 猿猴捉月

noun:

• customer at a brothel; john; someone who has forgotten the eight virtues ➜ 八徳
• brothel; owner of a brothel

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to treat with medicinal steam (a swelling, etc.)
• to dry the bottom of a ship (to prevent insect damage)

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to offer; to present - humble language
• to set someone up in a high position; to revere at a distance

auxiliary verb / godan ~る verb:

• to do respectfully - humble language

noun:

• one of the six administrators of a Zen temple (in charge of accounting) ➜ 六知事

noun:

• conventions to be followed in composing Japanese poetry; phraseology; diction ➜ 句形
• rules of grammar and syntax when reading kanbun in Japanese ➜ 句形

noun:

• water (esp. cool, fresh water, e.g. drinking water) - み is generally used in compounds ➜ 湯【ゆ】
• fluid (esp. in an animal tissue); liquid
• flood; floodwaters
• water offered to wrestlers just prior to a bout ［みず］ - Sumo term ➜ 力水
• break granted to wrestlers engaged in a prolonged bout ［みず］ - Sumo term ➜ 水入り

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to exercise one's authority as a (noun); to act as a (noun) - after noun ➜ 先輩風を吹かす

noun:

• jack-of-all-trades; all-rounder; generalist
• general merchant; general store

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be a good match for; to stand a chance against; to be able to compete with; to hold one's own - often in neg.

noun / ~する noun:

• general comment - abbreviation ➜ 総合評価

noun:

• Sohyo (General Council of Trade Unions of Japan) - abbreviation ➜ 日本労働組合総評議会

noun:

• General Epistles (James, Peter, Jude, John); Catholic Epistles; General Letters

noun:

• the same room; sharing a room; sharers of a room

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• outrider (person riding horseback in the lead position of a cavalcade); outriding
• harbinger; herald; precursor; forerunner; foretoken
• anticipation

noun:

• restoring a computer to factory settings (esp. through reinstallation of the operating system, or use of a recovery CD) - IT term