adverb / ~する noun:

• vexed; irritated; fretful; in ill humour; in ill humor; in a temper - onomatopoeia
• shaggy; bushy; ragged; rugged - onomatopoeia

~と adverb / noun:

• (fighting) in a confused mass; (falling) in swirls; (falling) in whirls

expression:

• briefly; in short; in a nutshell; in summary; to put it briefly

noun / ~する noun:

• performing a part in one's own play; playing a musical piece that one has written - four character idiom
• doing everything by oneself (from preparation to execution)
• put-up job; charade
• sock-puppeting (i.e. pretending to be more than one person on the Internet)

noun:

• (Edo-period) roadside teahouse where one would go to relax (in comparison with a restaurant style teahouse and teahouse offering sexual services); tea stall ➜ 色茶屋・料理茶屋

noun:

• three famous ancient calligraphers: Emperor Saga and Tachibana (no) Hayanari and Kooboo Daishi

noun / ~する noun:

• put heads together and confer; convene and discuss; go into a huddle (over) - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• put heads together and confer; convene and discuss; go into a huddle (over) - four character idiom

expression:

• fields and rice paddies that have been abandoned and are no longer cultivated

noun:

• time of year when television and radio replace programs (usu. spring and fall)

noun:

• difference in grades (e.g. in go, shoji, etc.)
• difference in level (e.g. road, footpath); ramp; steps; bump (in road)

noun:

• cross-selling (selling other products to a customer); cross sell

noun:

• shot (in films)
• shot (of alcohol)
• hitting a ball (e.g. in tennis)

noun / ~する noun:

• shoot (in basketball)

expression / ~の noun:

• one in a million (chance, etc.); one in ten thousand; in the unlikely event that

noun / ~する noun:

• addition of points; scoring
• addition of marks and symbols to a classical Chinese text to aid reading in Japanese

noun / ~する noun:

• all things being in flux through the endless circle of birth, death, and rebirth; the circle of transmigration - four character idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to say the same thing over and over again; to talk until one is blue in the face

noun:

• Zhejiang financial clique; Sekko Zaibatsu; clique from Zhejiang and Jiangsu, influential in Shanghai finance from late 1920s through 1930s ➜ 財閥

noun:

• karaori; Chinese weave; cloth decorated with birds and flowers in silk
• noh theater costume made with karaori weave

noun / suffix noun:

• hole - also read めど for this sense ➜ 穴が開く
• deficit; shortage; missing person (in a team, meeting, etc.)
• vacancy; opening
• flaw
• profitable place (or item, etc.) not well known by others
• upset victory (with a large payoff)
• pit (of a theater) - slang ➜ 平土間
• hiding place - archaism
• underbelly (of society, etc.) - archaism

noun:

• today and tomorrow; today or tomorrow; in a day or two - four character idiom

noun:

• atomic-bomb sickness; symptoms of radiation sickness caused by an atomic-bomb (i.e. high fever, nausea); illness caused by atomic-bomb radiation exposure (e.g. leukemia, malignant tumors)

noun:

• being preoccupied with immediate (superficial) differences without realizing that there are no differences in substance; six of one and half a dozen of another - four character idiom

noun:

• Okinawan-style stewed pork cubes; boned pork rib meat, cut into 5 cm squares, stewed in awamori, soy, dashi broth, and sugar - Ryūkyū dialect - Food term

noun:

• five implements placed in front of a Buddhist altar: two candlesticks, two vases (usu. containing flowers made of gilded copper) and one incense burner