noun:

• English oak (Quercus robur); pedunculate oak; common oak; French oak ➜ ヨーロッパ楢【ヨーロッパなら】

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to distinguish in writing; to use different writing styles ［書き分ける］
• to draw (identifiably) - usu. 描き分ける

godan ~す verb / ~す verb (precursor to modern する) / transitive:

• to use as an intermediary; to mediate; to assist ➜ 介する
• to worry; to mind; to care ➜ 介する

adjectival noun / noun:

• throwing one's weight around in a small group without knowing one's real worth in a larger world outside; being a big fish in a small pond - four character idiom

noun:

• reason; principle; logic
• general principle (as opposed to individual concrete phenomenon) - Buddhism term ➜ 事【じ】
• (in neo-Confucianism) the underlying principles of the cosmos

noun / ~する noun:

• accompanying; being in attendance on

noun:

• inner offerer (any of the 10 high-ranking monks serving at the inner offering hall) - abbreviation ➜ 内供奉

noun:

• distance in the standings between two teams expressed as the difference in number of games won or lost - Baseball term

noun / ~の noun:

• very resourcefully using tactics adapting oneself to the requirements of the moment; playing it by ear; acting according to circumstances - four character idiom

noun:

• Hypogaleus (genus whose sole member is the blacktip tope, Hypogaleus hyugaensis, a hound shark of the family Triakidae)

noun:

• Isogomphodon (genus of requiem shark in the family Carcharhinidae with one extant species known as the daggernose shark)

noun:

• under the tracks; area under the girders of a railway or highway (often used for shops, bars, etc.) ➜ ガード

noun:

• part of the shrine dedication ceremony at the Hachiman shrine in Yoshitomi, where articulated wooden dolls enact a sumo bout - Shintō term ➜ 紙相撲【かみずもう】

noun:

• Hell Korea; Hell Joseon; satirical South Korean term criticizing the current socioeconomic state of the country

auxiliary:

• if; in case; if it is the case that; if it is true that - hypothetical form of the copula だ, from なり and sometimes classed as a particle
• as for; on the topic of ［なら］

conjunction:

• if that's the case; if so; that being the case - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ それなら
• if possible; if circumstances allow ［ならば］

pre-noun adjectival:

• of the time; at the time ➜ 時【とき】

noun:

• the sun, the moon and the stars; the heavenly bodies - four character idiom

expression / conjunction:

• in spite of; nevertheless; although; despite; no matter the; regardless of

suffix:

• in the style of (esp. literary, artistic, etc. works); reminiscent of
• attached or stretched on

noun:

• cercopithecoid (any Old World monkey of family Cercopithecidae, esp. the guenons of genus Cercopithecus)

noun:

• bemoaning the frustration of reaching truth (for surplus of academic paths); being at a loss

noun:

• Hayagriva (manifestation of Avalokitesvara with an ornament in the shape of a horse's head) - Buddhism term ➜ 観世音

noun:

• young master (respectful way of referring to the son of a high-ranking person) - honorific language

noun / ~の noun:

• transmission of the secrets of an art, craft, trade or learning from father to son - four character idiom

noun:

• one of the accent patterns of Japanese words, with a rising and then falling pitch

noun:

• parazoan (member of an ancestral subkingdom of animals whose only surviving members are the sponges)