noun:

• person in the same business; the profession; the trade

noun:

• the masses; the lower classes; the common people

noun:

• on the street; around town; the world; the public

noun:

• the whole nation; all the people in the land - four character idiom

noun:

• the average Joe; the man in the street

noun:

• (pair of) wooden doors in the interior of a home
• door to a pavilion in a Heian period palace ➜ 寝殿造

temporal noun:

• eight minutes

noun:

• triangular-swept clerical script (clerical script whose horizontal lines end in a noticeable triangular tail) ➜ 六体

noun:

• oni; ogre; demon
• spirit of a deceased person ➜ 亡魂
• ogre-like person (i.e. fierce, relentless, merciless, etc.) ［おに］
• it (in a game of tag, hide-and-seek, etc.) ［おに］ ➜ 鬼ごっこ【おにごっこ】
• Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) ［き］ - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿・朱雀【すざく】

prefix:

• very; extremely; super- ［おに］ - slang ➜ 超

noun:

• cooking over the fire of an unclean home or a home in mourning; food prepared over the fire of an unclean home or a home in mourning ➜ 別火

noun:

• black tree monitor (Varanus beccarii, species of monitor lizard from the Aru Islands of eastern Indonesia); Beccari's monitor

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to incur the wrath of god (e.g. by speaking ill of somebody behind their back); to get into trouble
• to warp one's mouth

noun:

• (Platonic) ideal (of how things ought to be, e.g. human rights); foundational principle; idea; conception (e.g. of the university); doctrine; ideology

noun:

• grand kagura performance at Ise
• type of performance including the lion dance and juggling ➜ 雑芸
• Camellia japonica 'Daikagura' (cultivar of Japanese camellia) - usually written using kana alone ➜ 椿

noun:

• carapace; shell
• 1st in rank; grade A
• instep; back of hand
• the A party (e.g. in a contract); the first party; plaintiff (label in legal documents) ➜ 乙【おつ】

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to say incorrectly; to use the wrong words; to make a slip of the tongue
• to forget to say; to miss one's chance to say

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to let things end up as they will; to let nature take its course
• to make do with what one has

noun:

• the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow - Astronomy term ➜ 北斗七星
• family crest representing the seven luminaries (with one central circle surrounded by six other circles) ➜ 七曜
• Japanese pilchard (Sardinops melanostictus); Japanese sardine ➜ 真鰯

noun:

• public affairs; the court; the shogun; the shogunate

noun:

• the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow - Astronomy term ➜ 北斗星

noun:

• the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow - Astronomy term ➜ 北斗七星

noun:

• the head; the foremost; beginning; the very front

noun:

• the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow - abbreviation - Astronomy term ➜ 北斗七星

noun:

• the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow - archaism - Astronomy term ➜ 北斗七星

noun:

• kanji in which one element suggests the meaning, the other the pronunciation

noun:

• pawn (chess piece) ［ポーン］

~と adverb:

• boing; sproing (e.g. sound of releasing a spring); plonk (e.g. sound of hitting a tennis ball); crack (e.g. sound of ice cracking underfoot) - onomatopoeia
• flipping through the air; tossing - onomatopoeia