noun:

• cavaquinho; small four-stringed guitar - Music term - From Portuguese

noun:

• Okinawan-style stewed pork spare ribs - Ryūkyū dialect - Food term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to see the light; to be awakened to the truth; to have the scales fall from one's eyes - idiom ➜ 目からウロコの落ちる

noun:

• shawm-like instrument played by street vendors (sometimes referred to as a flute) - From Portuguese "charamela" ➜ 哨吶【さない】

noun:

• the three realms of existence - Buddhism term ➜ 欲界・色界・無色界
• the whole universe (of a billion worlds) that Buddha enlightened - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 三千大千世界
• past, present and future existences - Buddhism term ➜ 三世【さんぜ】

suffix:

• far-off ...; distant ...

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to throw the baby out with the bath water; to strain at a gnat and swallow a camel; to obsess over insignificant details and miss the larger point; to straighten the horns and kill the cow [literal] - idiom

noun:

• Trailokyavijaya Vidya-raja; conqueror of the three worlds - Buddhism term

noun:

• divine sword (one of the three sacred treasures)

expression / noun:

• the three Rs; reading, writing and arithmetic

noun:

• the three sacred mountains: Fuji, Atsuta, and Kumano - obscure term ➜ 霊山

expression / ichidan verb:

• to get to the heart (of the matter); to come to the main point

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• up to now; so far

~の noun:

• traditional; conventional; usual; existing

noun:

• three-game match; three-bout contest; a rubber (in a card game) - four character idiom

noun:

• qin (7-stringed Chinese zither); guqin

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to try to ...; to be about to do ... - after the volitional form of verb
• to decide to ... - after the dictionary form of verb
• to take as; to treat as; to regard as
• to use for
• to suppose that (such) is the case; to assume
• to decide that; to think that
• to make into; to change into
• to feel (e.g. after sound symbolism or psychological experience word); to look; to feel like
• to intend; to have the intention - with を目的

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to leap out (e.g. onto the stage); to spring out
• to jump (e.g. into first place); to shoot (e.g. to the top); to come to the forefront; to suddenly become prominent

noun:

• cleaning dust etc. from rooms; housecleaning
• (the traditional Japanese end-of-the-year, 13th December) big house cleaning; spring cleaning (only not in spring) ➜ 煤掃き

noun:

• the three powers of government (legislative, executive and judicial)

noun:

• see-not monkey (one of the three wise monkeys) ➜ 三猿

noun:

• say-not monkey (one of the three wise monkeys) ➜ 三猿

noun:

• hear-not monkey (one of the three wise monkeys) ➜ 三猿

noun:

• (Sun Yat-sen's) Three Principles of the People

noun:

• playoff for the tournament win with three wrestlers participating - Sumo term

noun:

• retribution spanning the three temporal worlds (present, past, future) - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun:

• (Sun Yat-sen's) Three Principles of the People ➜ 三民主義