noun:

• sky pattern on a calm and clear day of spring

suffix noun / prefix noun / noun:

• food with dressing on it (e.g. salad) - when a suffix, follows a word indicating the type of dressing ➜ 和える

noun:

• harassment or bullying based on age - From English "aging harassment"

noun:

• running a start-up company after work or on weekends

noun:

• manzai based on comic dialogue (as opposed to a skit) ➜ 漫才

noun:

• young mottled spinefoot pickled in salt (usu. served on tofu) - Ryūkyū dialect ➜ 藍子

noun:

• high fan speed (setting on air conditioner)
• squall; sudden gust

noun:

• cry of earthworms (heard on autumn nights and rainy days)

noun / ~の noun:

• (actor) relying on acting skills (rather than good looks, etc.)

noun:

• having furigana on all kanji in a document

noun:

• pork cutlet on rice in a lacquered box - Food term ➜ 重箱

noun:

• jizya (historical Islamic tax levied on non-Muslims); jezia; jezya - From Arabic

noun:

• fish served with white rice on New Year's eve ➜ 年取り

noun:

• eggslut; breakfast dish based on coddled egg and pureed potato - Food term

adverb:

• on rare occasions; once in a blue moon

noun:

• iron sight (on a gun, etc.)

expression:

• parents overvaluing their own children but looking down on others' - proverb ➜ 親の欲目【おやのよくめ】

expression / noun:

• hanger-on; lackey; sycophant; snow stuck under a geta sandal [literal] - usu. in ref. to the smaller party in a coalition government - idiom - derogatory term

noun:

• large sound of unknown source heard on a forested mountain - from the idea that such sounds came from trees being felled by tengu ➜ 天狗

noun:

• kite with a (kanji or kana) character written on it

noun:

• star; any light-emitting (or reflecting) heavenly body (except for the sun and the moon)
• offender; perpetrator - police slang - slang
• star point (in go); hoshi; intersection marked with a dot
• circular symbol (said to be shaped like a shining star)
• bullseye
• one's star (out of the nine stars); the star that determines one's fate ➜ 九星
• small dot; spot
• point; score - Sumo term

noun:

• the wise readily adapt themselves to changed circumstances; the wise are quick to acknowledge their mistakes and correct them - four character idiom
• (in colloquial usage, ironically or as an excuse) the wise make no scruple in suddenly changing their demeanor

noun:

• 180.39 millilitres; 180.39 milliliters ➜ 合【ごう】
• 0.3306 square metres; 0.3306 square meters ➜ 合【ごう】
• one-tenth of the way (from the foot of a mountain to the top) ➜ 合【ごう】

expression:

• Forgive me for dispensing with the preliminaries, but I hasten to inform you that... - opening formula of a brief letter

noun / ~する noun:

• omitting the beginning

noun:

• Southern Cross (asterism formed with the brightest four stars of the constellation Crux) - Astronomy term ➜ 南十字星【みなみじゅうじせい】