noun:

• sakaki (species of evergreen sacred to Shinto, Cleyera japonica)
• evergreen (esp. one planted or used at a shrine)

noun:

• night chat; tale told at night
• evening tea party (starting around 6 pm) ［よばなし］

noun / suffix noun:

• book of informal essays ［やわ］

noun:

• well curb consisting of wooden beams crossed at the ends
• pattern resembling the symbol #; parallel crosses
• number sign; hash ➜ 番号記号

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to stir up trouble for oneself; to scare out a snake by poking at the brush [literal] ➜ やぶ蛇

noun:

• ball-toss game, in which balls are thrown into a basket on a high pole (played at sports festivals)

noun:

• type of dancing and shouting performed by fans at concerts (usu. idol concerts)

noun:

• woman who earns her living by entertaining with song, dance and playing the shamisen; geisha who sings at parties

noun:

• Heian-period student of government administration - archaism
• Buddhist scholar; researcher at a Buddhist temple; person studying Buddhism - archaism
• learning; scholarship - archaism

noun:

• standing by at home (e.g. to prevent the spread of illness)
• being on furlough; being temporarily laid off

noun:

• group of persons working at the imperial court (Yamato period)
• various craftsmen and artisans under the ritsuryo system

noun:

• off timer (i.e. to automatically turn an electrical device off at a certain time) ➜ 入タイマー

expression / noun:

• age at which even the slightest things seem funny (esp. said of a girl in the late teens)

noun:

• hostess bar recruiters, etc. dressed in black suits - colloquialism
• young delinquents wearing black at Aomori's Nebuta festival - colloquialism ➜ ねぶた

noun:

• cheating at pachinko (for monetary gain; through illegal tampering with the machines, etc.); scamming a pachinko parlor - ゴト is orig. an abbr. of 仕事 ➜ パチンコ

ichidan verb:

• to use jointly; to use at the same time

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be at a loss; to be puzzled

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to work at a profession; to pursue a vocation

noun:

• after-dinner speech; speech made at a dinner (luncheon) - four character idiom

noun:

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

noun:

• accident at a nuclear power generation plant; nuclear accident

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to gaze out at; to look out over

adverb:

• finally; at last
• barely; narrowly; hardly; only just
• gradually; little by little; by degrees

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to go on a pub-crawl; to drink at a round of places

expression / ichidan verb:

• to take a long hard look at; to look (someone) full in the face

noun / ~する noun:

• tuck at the shoulder (of a child's clothes); shoulder tuck ➜ 肩揚げを下ろす【かたあげをおろす】・肩揚げが取れる【かたあげがとれる】