noun:

• iteration mark shaped like the hiragana "ku" (used in vertical writing to represent repetition of two or more characters) ➜ 踊り字

noun:

• lint (as in a clothes dryer or a pocket); waste thread; fibers, such as might wrap around the gears in small mechanisms and cause them to jam; fluff ➜ 綿ぼこり

noun:

• black surgeonfish (Acanthurus gahhm, species of tang endemic to the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden in the western Indian Ocean)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to disappear into; to be lost in; to slip into; to get mixed in among
• to do something under the cover of (confusion, etc.)
• to be almost indistinguishable; to be confusingly similar
• to be diverted from (negative emotions, etc.); to forget about
• to be distracted by; to be too absorbed in

noun:

• (in Japan) 3rd note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. E) ➜ 十二律・太簇
• (in gagaku) scale similar to the Dorian mode on E ➜ 律旋・六調子

noun / ~する noun:

• the return of the land and people from the feudal lords to the Emperor - four character idiom

noun:

• emergency meeting of the upper house of the Diet (in response to dissolution of the lower house)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to start the debate; to get the ball rolling; to fire the first shot (fig. only); to start a conversation

noun:

• game in which the object is to topple the opposing team's pole

noun:

• external character; user-defined character; character not included in the JIS character set - IT term
• kanji not included in the jōyō or jinmeiyō list ➜ 常用漢字・人名用漢字
• foreign letters (esp. of a western language); foreign writing

noun:

• ability to take proper steps to meet the situation; ability to adapt oneself to (the requirement of) the moment - four character idiom

expression:

• when it's important; when it comes to the crunch; when push comes to shove; when it comes to the point; in one's hour of need; at the critical moment ➜ いざ

godan ~る verb (irregular):

• to also be (implies that as well as the earlier stated this is also the case) - である with も; formal, literary ➜ である
• to be ... or something

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

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to surpass the rest (e.g. of a large group); to stand out from the crowd; to be the best by far ➜ 抜群

noun:

• performing solo (by oneself); having the stage to oneself; being in sole command; eclipsing (outshining) the others; field of activity in which one is unrivaled (unrivalled) - four character idiom

expression:

• it's hard to discipline one's mind; defeating the bandits in the mountains is easy; defeating the bandit in one's heart is hard [literal] - proverb

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• reverse movement; retrogression; going backwards; moving in the wrong direction; running counter to (e.g. the laws of nature); running against (e.g. the tide of the times) Antonym: 順行
• retrogradation; retrogression - Astronomy term

noun:

• purification ceremony held on the first day of the snake in the third month of the lunar calendar - archaism

noun:

• lantern festival, held on the night of the 15th day of the first month in the lunar calendar ➜ 小正月・元宵

noun:

• cooking over the fire of an unclean home or a home in mourning; food prepared over the fire of an unclean home or a home in mourning ➜ 別火

noun:

• catchers who warm up pitchers in the bullpen - Baseball term
• tank (character that soaks up damage for the rest of the party in an MMORPG)

noun:

• the right to sunshine; in zoning, the right to have sunlight falling on one's building not be obstructed by new buildings

expression / adverb:

• indiscriminately; without consideration; irrespective of the occasion; paying no attention to the feelings or expectations of those nearby

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to repeat the mistake of somebody; to make the same mistake as that of ...; to follow the rut of the preceding cart [literal] ➜ 轍を踏む