noun:

• steaming basket; wooden frame holder with reed base used to steam food over a pot - 井籠 (rarely 井篭) refers to a square basket
• soba served on a small wickerwork tray; wickerwork tray (for serving soba)

noun:

• gondola (boat) - From Italian
• gondola (of a hot-air balloon, airship, etc.); basket; cabin (of a cable car, ski lift, etc.); car (of an elevator)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to keep one's feet on the ground; to be down to earth - idiom

noun / suffix noun:

• company; association; society - abbreviation ➜ 会社
• regional Chinese god of the earth (or a village built in its honour)

counter / suffix:

• counter for companies, shrines, etc.

noun:

• kun (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: earth, southwest)

noun / ~の noun:

• the world; the earth

noun:

• this world (as opposed to heaven) - Buddhism term

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to level (earth); to cut through (a mountain)
• to split (the opposition); to break (strike)

noun:

• Earth Day (April 22nd)

expression / ~くる verb (spec.):

• along comes a sucker just begging to be parted from his money; a duck comes carrying a Welsh onion on its back [literal] ➜ 鴨鍋

noun:

• Clarke number; abundance of a chemical element in the Earth's crust, as calculated by geochemist Frank Wigglesworth Clarke - Geology term

noun:

• steamed rice (esp. cold rice reheated by steaming it)
• mochi rice with red beans steamed in a steaming basket; rice with red beans (eaten on celebratory occasions) ➜ こわめし

noun / ~する noun:

• going in order; proceeding in order; moving forward in order Antonym: 逆行
• direct motion; prograde motion - Astronomy term
• carrying out something without disobeying one's orders - archaism

noun:

• ground; crust (earth); bed (gravel, river, etc.)
• foundation (building, etc.); base
• constituency; power base; support (electoral); footing; foothold

noun:

• supermoon; full moon or new moon occurring while the Moon is closest to the Earth

noun:

• the descent to earth of the grandson of the sun goddess - four character idiom

noun:

• sexual desire; physical love; eros
• Eros (Greek god) ➜ エロース
• Eros (asteroid)
• event-related optical signal; EROS - Medicine term
• Earth Resources Observation Satellite; EROS

noun:

• low orbit; low earth orbit; LEO

noun:

• telephone appointment; arranging meetings and appointments in advance by phone - abbreviation
• cold-calling to get potential customers to agree to meet a salesman; carrying out market surveys by phone

noun:

• New Party Daichi; New Party Big Earth (Japanese political party)

conjunction:

• that being the case; therefore; so
• well then, moving on to another topic...
• (expressing surprise) ...on earth? ［されば］

interjection:

• that's right ［されば］

adverb / noun:

• the deepest bottom of the earth; never; not ... at all; on no account; for all the world; till doomsday

noun:

• environmental carrying capacity; environmental acceptable limit; environmental assimilating capacity; environmental capacity ➜ 環境収容力

noun:

• coiled dragon; dragon coiled on the earth, which has not yet ascended to the sky

noun:

• ultrahigh load-carrying capacity; ultrahigh load capacity

noun:

• the cosmic dual forces (yin and yang) and the five elements (metal, wood, water, fire and earth) in Chinese cosmology - four character idiom