noun:

• heavy schedule; tight schedule; hard schedule

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• grave; solemn; stern; authoritative; hard (e.g. fact)

adjectival noun / noun:

• strict; hidebound; inflexible; being a sticker for the rules; sticking hard and fast to the rules - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• gazing at; staring at fixedly; eyeballing; glaring; giving a hard look - slang

adjective:

• bony; tough; plucky; spirited; hard to deal with

adjectival noun / noun:

• firm; strong; unbending; unyielding; uncompromising; stubborn; tough; hard-line

noun:

• (hard) candy; toffee - Food term
• rice-sugar; sugar made from the starch of rice, potatoes, etc. - Food term
• amber; yellowish-brown - abbreviation ➜ 飴色

noun / ~の noun:

• porcelain (esp. hard-paste porcelain); china; chinaware ➜ 陶器【とうき】

~の noun / noun / ~する noun:

• external (hard drive, etc.) - IT term

noun:

• carborundum (hard silicon carbide solid, used as an abrasive) ➜ 炭化ケイ素

noun:

• scale (i.e. hard water coating in a kettle, etc.); fur

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to partition (e.g. a hard drive) - IT term

noun:

• (hard-earned rewards of) sweat and blood

noun:

• Blechnum amabile (species of hard fern)

noun / ~する noun:

• preliminary boiling (of hard-to-cook ingredients); cooking in advance

noun:

• Meretrix petechialis (species of hard clam)

noun:

• cementum (hard connective tissue covering the tooth root); cement

noun:

• corporate warrior (exceptionally dedicated and hard-working employee)

noun:

• broadleaf wild leek (edible plant with hard tubular leaves, Allium ampeloprasum)

noun:

• soft tennis (using soft rubber balls instead of hard yellow balls) ➜ 硬式テニス

noun / ~する noun:

• worldly wise; sophisticated; street smart; knowledge of the world (acquired in the school of hard knocks); toughness

noun:

• iron (Fe)

~の noun / noun:

• strong and hard (as iron)

noun / suffix noun / prefix noun:

• railway - abbreviation ➜ 鉄道

noun / prefix noun:

• railway enthusiast - colloquialism

noun / adverb:

• peep; chirp; beep; whistling, chirping, piping, etc. sound made by birds, insects, pipes, children, etc. - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• poor; hard up; pinched

noun:

• the runs; diarrhea; diarrhoea
• flute; pipe
• beginner; novice

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be stormy or choppy (sea)
• to go through hard times; to be broke
• to be gloomy; to be glum

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to draw through one's hand; to stroke (e.g. a beard) ［しごく］
• to work someone hard ［しごく］

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to masturbate - usu. シゴく