expression / godan ~む verb:

• to repeat a mistake (of somebody); to make the same mistake as that of ...; to follow the rut (left by someone else) [literal] ➜ 前車の轍を踏む・前轍を踏む

noun:

• small festival on the eve of the main festival (esp. of the Gion festival) ➜ 宵宮

noun:

• clan; partisans; conspirators; gang; ring; crew

noun / ~する noun:

• participation (e.g. in a plot)

noun:

• one flavour; one charm
• one ingredient (in traditional Chinese medicine)
• universality (of the teachings of Buddha) - Buddhism term

noun / suffix noun:

• degree (angle, temperature, scale, etc.)

counter:

• counter for occurrences

noun / suffix noun:

• strength (of glasses); glasses prescription
• alcohol content (percentage); alcohol by volume

noun:

• extent; degree; limit ➜ 度を過ごす
• presence of mind; composure ➜ 度を失う

~の noun / adjectival noun / noun:

• unrelated; irrelevant; indifferent Antonym: 有縁

~の noun / noun:

• without relations (esp. of a deceased person); having no surviving relatives
• unrelated to the teachings of Buddha; unable to be saved by Buddha - Buddhism term Antonym: 有縁

noun:

• three sun (ca. 9.1 cm) ➜ 寸【すん】
• something small, short or thin (roughly the size of three sun)
• stall-keeper; huckster; hawker ➜ 的屋
• prostitute of the lowest rank - archaism

noun:

• fold; pleat; gathers; tuck
• folds (e.g of a mountain); crease
• (hidden) detail; nuance; shade; wrinkle (e.g. in logic)
• lamella; gill (of a mushroom)

~と adverb / adverb:

• with a roaring sound (of water or wind); sound of feet stamping on the ground - onomatopoeia

interjection:

• whoa! (command used to stop or quieten down a horse, etc.) ➜ どう

noun:

• making up only parts of one's face instead of doing a full make-up job - From English "point make"

expression:

• fighting with one's back to the wall; having burnt one's bridges; last stand; from strategy of general Han Xin in the Battle of Jingxing - idiom

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:

• bai zhi (Chinese name for angelica species Angelica dahurica); traditional Chinese cure made from the root of this plant ➜ 鎧草
• Heracleum nipponicum (species of hogweed) ➜ 花独活

noun:

• user name (on an online forum like 2ch where the majority of users post anonymously) - slang - abbreviation ➜ 固定ハンドル
• user who uses a online handle (instead of posting anonymously); namefag - slang - abbreviation ➜ 固定ハンドル

noun:

• evening moon; moon that can only be seen in the early hours of the night (esp. from the 2nd to the 7th of the eight month) ➜ 夕月

noun:

• informal variant of a Chinese character; popular form of a Chinese character

noun:

• lamenting the passing of spring; lamenting the passing of one's youth

noun:

• slight cold; bit of a cold; touch of a cold; lingering cold

noun:

• 34th of the sexagenary cycle; thirty-fourth of the sexagenary cycle ➜ 干支

noun:

• Smilax glabra (species of sarsaparilla)
• Smilax china (species of sarsaparilla) - colloquialism ➜ 猿捕茨

expression:

• the law of arising and ceasing; the law of creation and destruction - Buddhism term

noun:

• rate of increase (e.g. prices); rate of climb (e.g. aircraft)

noun:

• maintaining the quality of a flower; lasting quality of a cut flower

noun:

• risk ratio; percentage of risk; hazard rate
• significance level; level of significance

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to chirp (of a swarm of insects); to sing
• to gather; to swarm

noun / ~の noun / adjectival noun:

• middle way; (golden) mean; moderation; middle path

noun:

• the Doctrine of the Mean (one of the Four Books) ➜ 四書