noun:

• clicking the shutter of a camera without taking a picture (because no film is loaded, or in order to advance the film)

noun:

• flag state (of a vessel or aircraft)

noun:

• mochi (glutinous rice or other grain, sticky enough to make mochi rice cakes) ➜ 粳

noun:

• birds of prey (of order Falconiformes or Strigiformes); raptors

noun:

• symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position, or because of censorship)

prefix noun:

• certain; unnamed; undisclosed; unidentified

noun:

• underground website (often critical or containing unofficial information) ➜ 学校裏サイト・闇サイト

noun:

• an antisudorific (agent or material)

noun:

• combination television and video-recorder (or DVD)

noun:

• online sockpuppet (who acts on behalf of a company or organization); paid troll

noun:

• official visit to a shrine (or temple)

noun:

• one generation (past, present, or future) - Buddhism term
• a lifetime

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• for something unexpected to happen (to someone or something one is close to) - idiom

expression:

• (deciding to do something) abruptly; at the turn of a dime - usu. as 足元から鳥が立つように - idiom

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to carry on one's shoulders (esp. of two or more people carrying a palanquin, etc.)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to feel blocked (of one's chest or throat, due to grief, anxiety, illness, etc.); to feel pressure; to feel pain ➜ 閊える

noun:

• first-time customer (of an inn or a restaurant); chance customer; customer without an introduction from a regular customer ➜ 一見の客・一見客

noun / ~する noun:

• transferring from one college (or one department) to another

noun:

• Edo-period proclamation issued by the shogunate (or a daimyo, etc.) usu. to the general populace ➜ 御触書

noun:

• ticket dispensing slot (on ticket machines or ticket barriers)

noun:

• lighted lamp (or candle, etc.) provided as a religious offering

adverb:

• bang bang (sound of a hammer or gunfire) - onomatopoeia
• doing something at a mad pace (spend money, work)

noun:

• evangelist (i.e. Matthew, Mark, Luke or John)

noun / ~の noun:

• suspicion of having (or to be making) nuclear weapons

noun / prefix noun:

• China (sometimes also used in ref. to Korea or other foreign countries) - archaism

noun:

• new members of society (esp. after turning 20 or joining a company); new working adults

noun:

• miscellany (classification of Japanese poetry unrelated to the seasons or to love)