noun:

• woven pattern or design

noun:

• burnt rice; scorched rice; crispy rice at bottom of cooking pan
• woman who hangs out with gay men - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• great ape ➜ 小型類人猿

expression:

• always listen to your parents; always value your parents' advice; not even one in a thousand of a parents' opinion or an eggplant flower are in vain [literal] - proverb

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to be breastfed

noun:

• utopia

noun:

• love and hate

noun / ~する noun:

• flop (e.g. movie); total failure; box office bomb - colloquialism ➜ 転ける【こける】

noun:

• coming; going - honorific language

noun / ~する noun:

• unrequited love; illicit love; secret affections

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to consider (all the circumstances); to bear (a number of things) in mind

expression / ichidan verb:

• to contemplate; to ponder; to think over; to turn over in one's mind; to reflect; to muse; to ruminate

noun:

• flattery

noun:

• stone placed on railway track (by children)
• decorative garden stone
• handicap stone (in go) ➜ 置き碁【おきご】

noun:

• cold (drinking) water; cold boiled rice

noun:

• Boy's Day celebration (May 5) ➜ 端午

noun:

• fairy-tale book ➜ 伽草子

adjective:

• easy to learn

noun:

• widescale reform

noun:

• billboard; large signboard
• first-rate influential performer (theatre, film, etc.); leading star; draw; attraction

noun:

• round-trip propagation time - IT term

noun:

• phonetic table (esp. that of Japanese) ➜ 五十音図

noun:

• white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus); whitetail deer

expression:

• please make yourself comfortable; please relax your sitting position

adverb:

• imagination