noun:

• the end of things (esp. used for one's last writings) - archaism
• one's dying hour (esp. used for the death of Confucius)

noun / ~する noun:

• reading while standing (in a bookstore, etc.); browsing (i.e. reading an item but not buying it)

expression:

• slow but steady wins the race; constant effort will result in success; constant dripping wears away a stone [literal] - proverb

expression:

• slow but steady wins the race; constant effort will result in success; constant dripping wears away a stone [literal] - proverb

noun:

• sitting position similar to seiza (but with both legs splayed out slightly and one's backside resting directly on the ground) ➜ 正座【せいざ】

expression:

• there in body, but not in spirit; distracted; in one ear and out the other

expression:

• not to write to or visit someone; road of the weasel (it is believed that if someone blocks the path a weasel, he will never take that path again) [literal]

expression:

• not to write to or visit someone; road of the weasel (it is believed that if someone blocks the path a weasel, he will never take that path again) [literal] ➜ いたちの道

noun:

• scholar who knows but little of the ways of the world - four character idiom

intransitive verb:

• to be emaciated; to be nothing but skin and bones

noun:

• undecorated fabric of any color but black; kimono made of such fabric

expression:

• it is easy to start an enterprise but hard to maintain it - proverb

expression:

• I can't help but laugh; I have to laugh at this - slang ➜ 草

noun:

• New World (esp. the Americas, but also Australasia) ➜ 旧世界
• new world

pronoun:

• that way (direction distant from both speaker and listener); over there; yonder ➜ 何方【どちら】・此方【こちら】・其方
• that one (something physically distant from both speaker and listener, or something not visible but known by both speaker and listener); that
• that person (someone physically distant from both speaker and listener, or someone not present but known by both speaker and listener) - あちら is pol.
• there (place distant from both speaker and listener); over there; foreign country (esp. a Western nation)

noun:

• pretending to obey someone to his face but badmouthing him behind his back - four character idiom

noun:

• rear shrine (located behind the main shrine, but dedicated to the same deity) ➜ 本社

noun:

• rear shrine (located behind the main shrine, but dedicated to the same deity) ➜ 奥社

expression:

• a wonder lasts but nine days; gossip lasts just 75 days [literal] - proverb

particle:

• indicates sentence subject (occasionally object)
• indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions)

conjunction:

• but; however; still; and
• regardless of; whether (or not) - after the volitional form of a verb

noun:

• lucky day but not in the morning; day on which judgment and haste are avoided (judgement) ➜ 六曜

noun:

• the time before last; last time but one

expression:

• his faults are few, but so are his virtues - proverb

expression / noun:

• (wearing) a loincloth alone; nothing but a loincloth - esp. 〜で、〜の、〜になり ➜ パンツ一丁・ふんどし一丁【ふんどしいっちょう】

expression:

• prune your plum trees, but not your cherry trees - proverb