noun:

• a rosary; a string of beads

suffix noun:

• a little over; a little more than
• powerhouse; one of the biggest; one of the most powerful

noun / ~の noun:

• milk (mammal)
• milk (plant); milky juice; latex

noun:

• seedling; young plant
• rice seedling ➜ 早苗

noun:

• winter annual; biennial; biennial plant - Botany term ➜ 二年生【にねんせい】

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to plant; to insert

noun:

• (plant) rust; rust fungus

noun:

• winter annual; biennial; biennial plant - Botany term

expression:

• (from rakugo) that's all from me, and now the next speaker ...; expression used to hand over to the next speaker

noun:

• dry lacquer statue; statue made from many layers of hemp cloth soaked with laquer

noun:

• novel from the late Edo period focused on the love stories of ordinary townsfolk

noun:

• (in Japanese history) crude warrior from the eastern parts of the country; wild man

noun:

• mounted bandit (esp. historically in NE China from the end of the Qing dynasty)

adverb:

• from now on; in the future; hereafter; ahead of us; down the road

noun:

• generation of students educated under the "pressure-free" system (from the late 1970s onward) ➜ ゆとり教育【ゆとりきょういく】

noun:

• Brexit; withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• customary use; common usage; general usage

noun:

• "use by" date (food); expiry date

noun:

• usability test; fitness-for-use test - IT term

adverb:

• before use; pre-service; pre-operational

expression:

• sharp eyes and ears used for collecting information far and wide; having the acumen and shrewd discernment gained by widely-collected information; being well-versed on a subject; books which broaden our knowledge - four character idiom

noun:

• pomato; cross of a tomato and a potato

noun:

• the start of a climb up a hill

adjectival noun / noun:

• exaggeration; making a mountain out of a molehill - four character idiom

noun:

• command of a shogun or a high official