noun:

• ancient language; ancient word
• ancient Japanese language; Japanese as spoken from the end of the 6th century to the end of the Nara period - Linguistics term

noun:

• house of parliament (congress, diet, etc.) ➜ 下院【かいん】
• graduate school; postgraduate school

suffix:

• institution (often medical); institutional building; government office ➜ 医院【いいん】・病院【びょういん】
• sub-temple; minor temple building; temple; cloister - Buddhism term

noun:

• imperial palace - honorific language
• title bestowed on empresses, princesses, etc. - honorific language - archaism ➜ 女院【にょういん】

suffix:

• former (esp. of emperors, daimyos, etc.); late

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to scatter; to cause a shower of
• to disperse; to distribute; to spread
• to resolve (a symptom, condition, etc.); to relieve; to get rid of; to cure
• to distract; to divert - as 気を散らす, etc. ➜ 気を散らす

suffix / godan ~す verb:

• to do ... wildly (i.e. disorderly or frequently); to do ... all over the place - after the -masu stem of a verb

noun:

• flying; leaping; flight; leap - abbreviation ➜ 飛ぶ
• naught; zero; oh - when reading a number aloud
• flying fish (esp. the Japanese flying fish, Cypselurus agoo) ➜ 飛魚
• running out of points (zero or fewer); game ending due to a player running out of points ［飛び］ - Mahjong term

noun:

• øre; Danish or Norwegian monetary unit equal to one hundredth of a krone - From Danish or Norwegian ➜ クローネ
• öre; Swedish monetary unit equal to one hundredth of a krona - From Swedish ➜ クローナ

noun:

• coefficient of kinematic viscosity; dynamic coefficient of viscosity; kinematic viscosity

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to become; to get; to grow; to be; to reach; to attain
• to result in; to prove to be
• to consist of; to be composed of
• to succeed; to be complete
• to change into; to be exchanged for
• to play a role ➜ 成り済ます
• to be promoted - Shōgi term

godan ~る verb:

• to do ... - as お+masu-stem+になる, ご+noun+になる, etc. - honorific language

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to think; to consider; to believe - 想う has connotations of heart-felt
• to think (of doing); to plan (to do)
• to judge; to assess; to regard
• to imagine; to suppose; to dream
• to expect; to look forward to
• to feel; to be (in a state of mind); to desire; to want
• to recall; to remember

expression:

• better to be the beak of a rooster than the rump of a bull; better to be the leader of a small group than a subordinate in a large organization; better to be a big fish in a little pond than a little fish in a big pond - four character idiom

noun:

• five punishments (of ancient China: tattooing, cutting off the nose, cutting off a leg, castration or confinement, death) - archaism
• five punishments (of the ritsuryo system: light caning, severe caning, imprisonment, exile, death) ➜ 律令制

noun:

• five punishments (of the ritsuryo system: light caning, severe caning, imprisonment, exile, death) - archaism ➜ 律令制
• five punishments (of ancient China: tattooing, cutting off the nose, cutting off a leg, castration or confinement, death) ➜ 五刑

noun:

• mom's home cooking; taste of mom's cooking; taste of home cooking; food like mom used to make

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• corresponding to (in meaning, function, etc.); being equivalent to

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• appropriate; suitable; befitting; proportionate

~する noun:

• to be proportionate to; to be in keeping with; to be deserving of; to be worthy of

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• considerable; substantial

adverb:

• considerably; rather; quite; fairly; pretty

noun:

• place; spot; space
• field; discipline; sphere; realm
• occasion; situation ➜ その場
• scene (of a play, movie, etc.)
• session (of the stock market)
• area in which cards are laid out (in a card game)
• round (i.e. east, south, etc.) - Mahjong term ➜ 東場・南場・西場・北場
• field - Physics term
• field (gestalt psychology)

noun:

• squirrel's foot fern (Davallia mariesii)
• Lepisorus thunbergianus (species of fern) ➜ 軒忍
• color of clothing layers under one's overcoat (light green on blue) ➜ 襲の色目
• ancient women's hairstyle - abbreviation ➜ 忍髷
• clothing patterned using squirrel's foot fern - abbreviation ➜ 忍摺

noun / ~する noun:

• passing through (a tunnel, station, town, etc.); passing by (e.g. of a typhoon); transit
• passage (of a bill, e.g. through parliament); carriage
• passing (an examination, inspection, etc.); clearing

noun:

• decreasing birthrate and aging population; aging population combined with the diminishing number of children; declining birthrate and a growing proportion of elderly people; dwindling birthrate and an aging population; low birthrate and longevity ➜ 少子化・高齢化

noun / adjectival noun:

• one's own convenience; one's way; selfishness

noun:

• surroundings; environment; way of doing things
• convenience; ease of use
• financial circumstances; living; livelihood
• kitchen ➜ 台所
• right hand (in archery); hand that pulls the bowstring

prefix noun:

• unauthorised (e.g. phone app, WWW site); unofficial

noun:

• publication (e.g. of an article in a newspaper); carrying (e.g. a story); running (e.g. a serial); insertion (e.g. of an advertisement); printing; posting (e.g. on the web)

noun:

• one's youth; one's youthful days (years); the flower of one's youth; the springtime of one's life - four character idiom

noun:

• canned juice; canned soft drink; can of juice; can of soft drink

expression:

• as (i.e. in the role of); for (i.e. from the viewpoint of)
• apart from... (used to change the topic)
• even (e.g. "not even a single person") - before a negative form
• thinking that...; trying to... - after a volitional form ➜ とする

noun:

• cash offering made on the occasion of one's visit to a shrine; money offering dedicated to the Shinto gods; fees for offering a branch of the sacred tree to the gods

noun / ~する noun:

• reallocating private land to public use (e.g. parks, roads); reduction in the amount of private land following a land reallocation; reducing the area of private land to reallocate it to public uses

noun:

• five flavors (sweet, salty, spicy, sour, bitter); five palates; five tastes
• five flavors (milk at various stages of making ghee: fresh milk, cream, curdled milk, butter, and ghee); "the five periods of the Buddha's teachings" [figurative] - Buddhism term ➜ 五時教