noun:

• minutes of a pre-trial hearing; records of a preliminary examination

noun:

• anticipation of a fall (in prices); prediction of a price drop

noun / ~する noun:

• giving a cold look; icy stare; taking a cold-hearted attitude

noun:

• public prosecutor's record of a statement given before a prosecutor - from 検察官面前調書 - abbreviation

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be caught in a dilemma; to get into a scrape

noun:

• drawing of a character in a standing pose (in video games)

noun:

• miswriting a word; using the wrong kanji to write a word - four character idiom ➜ 魯魚の誤り【ろぎょのあやまり】

noun:

• miswriting a word; using the wrong kanji to write a word - four character idiom ➜ 魯魚の誤り【ろぎょのあやまり】

expression / noun:

• having a happy and harmonious relationship (of a husband and wife) - idiom

noun:

• traces of a moving light; trail (e.g. of a meteor)

noun:

• bag; sack; pouch
• skin of an orange (and other like fruits)
• dead end
• plot of land surrounded by water

noun:

• firm-sided backpack made of leather, etc. (used by Japanese elementary schoolchildren, often red for girls and black for boys) - From Dutch "ransel"

noun:

• everyday garment worn by nobles in ancient Japan
• silk dried after having been washed in plain water and stretched out

noun:

• intelligent design (theory that life or the universe must have been designed by an intelligent being)

noun:

• Kagutsuchi; fire deity who burned to death his mother Izanami during childbirth (and was therefore beheaded by his father Izanagi) ➜ 伊弉冉尊・伊弉諾尊・軻遇突智・火結神・火之夜芸速男神

noun:

• Kagutsuchi; fire deity who burned to death his mother Izanami during childbirth (and was therefore beheaded by his father Izanagi) ➜ 迦具土神

noun:

• Kagutsuchi; fire deity who burned to death his mother Izanami during childbirth (and was therefore beheaded by his father Izanagi) ➜ 迦具土神

noun:

• starched white uniform worn by menservants of government officials - archaism
• something pasted with plain white paper (e.g. umbrella, lantern) ➜ 白張り提灯

noun:

• Japanese book size (approx. 12.5cm by 17.5cm) ➜ 半紙【はんし】
• late Edo-period novelette depicting life in the red-light district ➜ 洒落本

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to act as a mediator; to serve as a mediator; to act as an intermediary; to be a go-between

noun / ~する noun:

• arranging in a line; standing in a row

noun / ~の noun:

• parallel (electronics, computing, etc.) ➜ 並列回路【へいれつかいろ】・直列【ちょくれつ】

expression / ~の noun:

• as a child; when one was a child; childhood

adverb:

• after a long time; for the first time in a while

noun / ~する noun:

• acting as a group; doing something together (in a group); collective action Antonym: 別行動【べつこうどう】

noun / ~する noun:

• entering a state of intense concentration - Buddhism term ➜ 出定
• death (of a high monk, etc.)