noun:

• simple chicken and rice stir fry dish (usu. flavoured with ketchup or tomato pure) - Food term - From English "chicken rice"

noun:

• apostille; stamp or certificate of public document authentication in accordance with Hague Convention XII

noun:

• recouping one's strength for a renewed attack (on); making another attempt with redoubled efforts - four character idiom

noun:

• not being obsessed with something very long (just as clouds and haze pass swiftly before one's eyes) - four character idiom

noun:

• postcards associated with Respect-for-the-Aged Day, and sold every year starting in September - From English "heart mail"

expression:

• there is a great difference between being told about something and actually seeing it with your own eyes - proverb

noun:

• rectangular bugaku mask made of thick paper and white silk with facial features drawn on it ➜ 舞楽

noun:

• mooncake; disc-shaped confection of wheat-flour dough filled with bean paste, usu. eaten during Autumn in China

expression:

• mnemonic for remembering the months with fewer than 31 days (ni, shi, mu, ku, etc.)

adjectival noun:

• selfish; with disregard for order or rules - archaism
• reckless; rash; careless - archaism
• loose; bawdy - archaism ➜ みだら
• irrational; illogical - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• call; summons; paging; curtain call ➜ 呼び出す【よびだす】

noun:

• usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc. - Sumo term
• telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached - abbreviation ➜ 呼び出し電話
• box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse) - archaism ➜ 陸湯
• high-ranking prostitute in the Yoshiwara district (Edo period) - archaism
• unlicensed prostitute in the Fukagawa red-light district (Edo period) - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• dealing with (people, customers, complaints, etc.); receiving (callers, visitors, etc.); attending to; handling; serving

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• noninterference; leaving something to take its own course; giving someone a free hand with something

noun / suffix noun:

• ratio; proportion

noun:

• match; equal
• explicit comparison (style of the Shi Jing) ➜ 六義
• Philippines - abbreviation ➜ 比律賓

suffix noun:

• in comparison with ... - after a noun

noun:

• binding hand and foot; temporary feeling of paralysis; sleep paralysis
• being tied down with money - colloquialism

noun:

• ume liqueur; Japanese plum brandy; unripe ume infused in liquor (esp. shochu) with added sugar ➜ 梅【うめ】

noun:

• cutting in two with a single stroke; taking decisive (drastic) measure; cutting the (Gordian) knot - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• criticism (by a teacher or coach, with commentary, especially at a poetry reading); review; critique

noun:

• chopped fish, shellfish or vegetables, dressed with (miso or other) sauce - Food term

noun:

• lecture (esp. special engagement by noted speaker); lecture meeting (event with one or more lectures)

noun:

• oyakodon; chicken and egg on rice
• sexual relationship with both a mother and daughter - vulgar - slang

noun:

• paper and sacred sakaki branches cut and mixed with rice to scatter before the gods

noun / ~の noun / adjectival noun:

• desperate situation with no escape; being driven into a corner; being cornered; last extremity - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• enduring something out of pride; putting up with it; grinning and bearing it

noun / ~する noun:

• separating words in Japanese with spaces (e.g. in kana-only books for children) - Linguistics term