expression / noun:

• by a hair's breadth; in the nick of time; touch and go; close call; critical moment - four character idiom

noun:

• haori coat used by soldiers ➜ 羽織

noun:

• nine traditional astrological signs in Onmyōdō, each corresponding to the year of a person's birth and used to create a horoscope ➜ 陰陽道・一白【いっぱく】・二黒【じこく】・三碧【さんぺき】・四緑【しろく】・五黄【ごおう】・六白【ろっぱく】・七赤【しちせき】・八白【はっぱく】・九紫【きゅうし】

noun / ~する noun:

• death due to shock (triggered by blood loss, heart failure or other causes)

noun:

• simplicity and complexity; singular and plural; single and double; singles and doubles (in tennis)

noun:

• fried finely minced daikon, great burdock, carrot and shiitake mushrooms wrapped with crumbled tofu in dried beancurd and deep-fried
• Japanese tofu and vegetable chowder - abbreviation ➜ 巻繊汁
• black soybean sprouts fried in sesame seed oil wrapped in dried beancurd and stewed - orig. meaning - archaism

noun:

• bamboo stick used to strike meditators into greater wakefulness (in Zen Buddhism) - Buddhism term
• striking someone's wrist with one's index and middle finger - esp. しっぺ - usually written using kana alone

adverb:

• in general; on the whole; for the most part; by and large; almost all

noun:

• hakama for women (esp. hakama worn by female students and teachers in the Meiji period) - archaism

noun:

• thing; object; article; stuff; substance
• one's things; possessions; property; belongings - as 〜のもの, 〜のもん
• things; something; anything; everything; nothing
• quality
• reason; the way of things
• used to emphasize emotion, judgment, etc.; used to indicate a common occurrence in the past (after a verb in past tense); used to indicate a general tendency; used to indicate something that should happen - formal noun often used as 〜ものだ - usually written using kana alone

suffix noun:

• item classified as ...; item related to ...; work of ...
• cause of ...; cause for ...

prefix:

• somehow; somewhat; for some reason ［もの］ ➜ 物寂しい【ものさびしい】
• really; truly ［もの］ ➜ 物珍しい【ものめずらしい】

noun:

• large cloth sack
• baggy trousers (worn in the late-Edo and early-Meiji periods by samurai while practising)

noun / ~する noun:

• ignoring a text message by leaving it unopened and marked as "unread" (in the chat application LINE) - colloquialism ➜ スルー

noun / ~する noun:

• personal meeting (esp. used by females) ➜ お目にかかる

pronoun:

• you (often used by a wife addressing her husband) - slang ➜ あんた

adverbial noun / noun / ~の noun:

• other (esp. people and abstract matters)

noun:

• punctuation marks and other special symbols - printing term

noun:

• blindness in one eye; having one eye much bigger than the other; someone blind in one eye; someone with one eye much bigger than the other - sensitive

noun:

• horsehair; horse hair; hair from mane and tail used for brushes and string instrument bows

noun:

• other matters; other people's affairs

noun:

• small boat used for transport on rivers (Edo period); barge; boat used for unloading goods from a large anchored boat ➜ 瀬取り船
• boat with a roof used for boating on a river
• small boat selling food and drinks on a river - archaism

noun:

• (possession of) one feudal domain and one castle; being independent (acting without compromise or assistance) - four character idiom
• establishing only one castle in each feudal domain (edict issued by the shogunate in 1615)

noun:

• training of new employees

noun:

• method of awarding rare in-game items in mobile games only when the player has bought a full set of other in-game items ➜ ガチャ

noun:

• method of awarding rare in-game items in mobile games only when the player has bought a full set of other in-game items - abbreviation ➜ ガチャ・コンプリートガチャ

noun:

• Zipangu (the name for Japan used by Marco Polo) - From Italian