noun:

• glow of a river in the darkness; surface of a river gleaming in the darkness; gleam on a river at dusk

noun:

• my lord; my master; one's own lord; one's own master - in kyogen, etc. - honorific language ➜ 頼うだ人

noun:

• conditions of a location; suitability of a location; convenience of a location

expression / ichidan verb:

• to take a breather; to take a rest; to take a break

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to receive; to get
• to catch (e.g. a ball)
• to be struck by (wind, waves, sunlight, etc.)
• to sustain (damage); to incur (a loss); to suffer (an injury); to feel (influence)
• to undergo (e.g. surgery); to take (a test); to accept (a challenge)
• to be given (e.g. life, talent) - esp. 受ける, 享ける

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to find funny; to find humorous; to be amused (by) - esp. ウケる - colloquialism - usually written using kana alone

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to follow; to succeed; to be descended from - esp. 受ける, 享ける
• to face (south, etc.)
• to be modified by - esp. 受ける, 承ける - Linguistics term
• to obtain (a pawned item, etc.) by paying a fee - esp. 請ける, now primarily used in compound words ➜ 請け出す

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be well-received; to become popular; to go down well - esp. ウケる, うける - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• chimney; smokestack; funnel (of a ship); stovepipe
• carrying a passenger without turning on the taximeter - slang

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• lifting a ban; raising an embargo; opening a season (hunting, fishing, etc.)
• publishing contents; revealing information - colloquialism

noun:

• legal wife (of a noble) (as opposed to a concubine) ➜ 側室・本妻
• room for receiving guests ➜ 表座敷【おもてざしき】
• heir; successor - obscure term

noun:

• avatamsa (flower adornment, as a metaphor for becoming a buddha) - Buddhism term
• Avatamska sutra - abbreviation ➜ 華厳経
• Kegon (sect of Buddhism) - abbreviation ➜ 華厳宗

noun:

• adding sounds to a soundtrack after a film has been made; postrecording; postsynchronization; postsynchronisation; postlooping; dubbing - abbreviation - From English "after recording" ➜ アフターレコーディング

noun:

• begging Zen priest of the Fuke sect (wearing a sedge hood and playing a shakuhachi flute)

noun / ~する noun:

• sharing a table with someone you don't know (e.g. at a restaurant)

noun / ~する noun:

• having a prince for a president; being the recipient of (an imperial favor, favour); reverential acceptance

noun:

• barely keeping a business going (analogy that a bicycle falls over when its wheels cease rotating)

noun:

• sub-temple, esp. a Zen one founded to commemorate the death of a high priest - Buddhism term

expression / adjectival noun:

• triumphant (over a mediocre achievement); boastful; as if one had grabbed a demon by the neck [literal]

noun:

• hitting the maximum value of a numeric counter (in a video game) - From English "counter stop" ➜ カンスト

noun:

• sambhogakaya (reward body, form taken by a buddha after completing its role as a bodhisattva) - Buddhism term ➜ 三身

noun:

• making of a craft or product, esp. a television program, movie, etc.

noun:

• message butting in (to a conversation between two other people on a BBS, etc.) - slang

noun:

• bianzhong (ancient Chinese musical instrument; bronze bells set in a wooden frame, played with a mallet) ➜ 鐘

suffix / adjective:

• (after a noun or the stem of an adjective) seeming very... (usu. with a negative connotation)

noun:

• "090" financing; loan sharks operating from a cellphone (i.e. without a fixed phone number)

noun:

• female cook; kitchenmaid
• woman who served both as a waitress and a prostitute in Osaka teahouses - archaism

expression:

• time flies; like watching a white horse run by through a gap in the wall (Zhuangzi) [literal] - proverb