noun:

• tattoo (esp. a tattoo of a flame-wreathed dragon wrapped around and swallowing the tip of an upright sword); person with a tattoo ➜ 倶利迦羅

noun:

• useless book learning; knowing the theory but being able to put it into practice; practising swimming on a tatami mat [literal] - idiom - humorous term

noun:

• useless book learning; knowing the theory but being unable to put it into practice; practising swimming on a tatami mat [literal] - idiom - humorous term

expression:

• to only look the part (but otherwise be wholly unsuited for it); a monkey wearing a crown - idiom

noun:

• skewering one's food with a chopstick in order to pick it up (a breach of etiquette)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to not try to fix an error but rather make it look good on the surface only

adjectival noun / adverb / ~する noun:

• sticky - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• thickly (e.g. painted); heavily (applied) - onomatopoeia
• all over (pasting, stamping, etc.) - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• clinging (e.g. of a person); following around; being all over (each other); flirting - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun:

• cliched; hackneyed - colloquialism ➜ べた

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to search about for; to hunt around for; to look high and low for; to look everywhere for

godan ~く verb:

• to turn one's face; to turn around; to look over one's shoulder

noun / ~の noun:

• one's person; around one's person

noun:

• puzzle ring; wire puzzle
• exercise where students link crossed hands in a circle and try working together and without letting go

adverb / ~と adverb:

• stiff and slackless; tense without any looseness - onomatopoeia ➜ きりっと
• cling tightly; pulled or stretched as far as possible
• creaking of a door or oar

noun / ~する noun:

• wind blowing down, coming over a mountain

noun:

• immediately after one's draw - Mahjong term
• winning off a discarded tile from the player to one's right or across the table on the turn after letting one's winning tile go by from the player to one's left - Mahjong term

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to spread; to extend; to expand; to enlarge; to widen; to broaden - emphatic form of 広げる ➜ 広げる【ひろげる】
• to unfold; to open; to unroll; to unwrap ➜ 広げる【ひろげる】
• to scatter about; to spread around ➜ 広げる【ひろげる】
• to make flourish; to cause to prosper ➜ 広げる【ひろげる】

noun:

• (large number of people, esp. students) singing and dancing around a bonfire at night - From English "fire storm"

noun:

• goblin; monster; demon
• ghost; apparition
• something that's unusually large

noun:

• izakaya; Japanese bar that also serves various dishes and snacks

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• taboo; day, time, direction, words, etc. that must be avoided

noun:

• contraindication - Medicine term

noun:

• lining ➜ 表地
• land that does not adjoin to public or private roads - obscure term ➜ 袋地

noun:

• ridged cracks that form in the ice on Lake Suwa

noun:

• water that has been used to wash rice

noun:

• fish that are called by different names as they grow larger

noun:

• Tartary (various tribes that historically inhabited the area north of China)

~の noun / ~する noun:

• epiphytic; designating a non-parasitic plant that grows on other plants ➜ 着生植物

noun:

• reading (of a word) that has become accepted through popular usage