noun:

• long, narrow card on which Japanese poems are written (vertically); strip of paper
• thin rectangle - abbreviation ➜ 短冊形

noun:

• light pressure; photon pressure; radiation pressure - Physics term

noun:

• upper reaches (of a river); upper stream Antonym: 下【しも】
• top; upper part; upper half (of the body)
• long ago
• beginning; first
• person of high rank (e.g. the emperor) - honorific language ➜ 御上
• government; imperial court
• imperial capital (i.e. Kyoto); capital region (i.e. Kansai); region (or direction of) the imperial palace ➜ 上方【かみがた】
• head (of a table)
• wife; mistress (of a restaurant) - honorific language

adverb / ~する noun:

• for a moment; for a minute

adverb:

• for a while; for some time
• for the time being; for now

interjection:

• it's been a long time; long time no see

noun:

• sastrugi; parallel wave-like ridges formed on a snow surface by the wind

expression:

• take a long walk off a short pier; go stick your head in a pig; bash your head against the corner of a block of tofu and die [literal]

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to wait expectantly; to be full of anticipation; to long for

noun:

• narrow, long, and thin pieces of wood strung together that were used to write on in ancient times ➜ 竹簡

noun:

• switch (long, tender shoot of a plant) - archaism
• switch (cane used for flogging) ➜ 笞【しもと】

noun:

• radiation surveymeter; portable Geiger counter

noun:

• wave-cut platform; abrasion platform; coastal bench - Geology term ➜ 波食台【はしょくだい】

noun:

• wave-cut platform; abrasion platform; coastal bench - Geology term ➜ 波食棚【はしょくだな】

noun:

• wave-cut platform; abrasion platform; coastal bench - Geology term ➜ 波食棚・波食台

noun:

• Silver Week (any long string of Japanese public holidays other than Golden Week) - colloquialism ➜ ゴールデンウィーク

noun:

• bomb blast; blast (from an explosion); shock wave

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to wave a flag
• to show the way

noun:

• cold perm; cold wave - From English "design perm"

noun:

• giant tsunami; giant tidal wave

noun:

• New Wave (esp. in cinema) - From French "Nouvelle Vague"

noun:

• priest's flapper made from the tail of a large deer; long stick with the tail of a large deer attached ➜ 払子

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• all day long

temporal noun:

• last day of the month; last day of the year; New Year's Eve

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to plow through (a wave) (plough); to tack (against the wind)

noun / ~の noun:

• heat wave; fierce heat

noun / ~の noun:

• heat wave; intense heat

noun:

• filter; wave filter