noun:

• carry - IT term

noun:

• dispel (esp. magic or potion used to return one's character to normal status in an RPG, etc.)

noun:

• full to the brim with water

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to fill (a glass) with water

noun:

• puppet powered by (falling) water; water-powered contrivance; show using such a device (in Edo-period Osaka)

noun:

• someone whose kanji-writing ability has suffered due to overreliance on the kana-to-kanji conversion systems used to input Japanese text on a computer - IT term

expression:

• if you do a favor for somebody, you will get a return favor; if a fish is friendly toward water, water will be kind to the fish too [literal]; you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours - proverb ➜ 魚心あれば水心

noun:

• marks or dots used to emphasize text passage (emphasise)
• marks to facilitate reading of kanbun

noun:

• kanji used to represent syllables, based on their "on" readings (prior to the advent of kana) ➜ 訓仮名【くんがな】・万葉仮名【まんようがな】

noun:

• circle (sometimes used for zero) ➜ 丸【まる】
• 'correct' (when marking) ➜ 二重丸【にじゅうまる】
• symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position, or because of censorship) ➜ 〇〇【まるまる】
• period; full stop ➜ 句点
• maru mark; semivoiced sound; p-sound ➜ 半濁点

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to disturb the water; to wake a sleeping dog; to wake a sleeping child [literal]

noun:

• Northern Di people; northern barbarians; Zhou dynasty term used by the Chinese to refer to non- ethnic Chinese to the north - archaism - derogatory term

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to throw the baby out with the bath water; to strain at a gnat and swallow a camel; to obsess over insignificant details and miss the larger point; to straighten the horns and kill the cow [literal] - idiom

noun:

• niche or alcove for an image
• (in Okinawa) portable shrine used to move a deceased from their house to the graveyard

noun:

• system used during the Edo era where commoners had to register with a temple in order to prove their Buddhist faith

noun:

• system used during the Edo era where commoners had to register with a temple in order to prove their Buddhist faith ➜ 寺請制度

interjection:

• excuse me; pardon me; used when visiting someone else's house to ask to be shown inside - used by samurai - archaism

noun:

• clear autumn water; clear fall water

noun:

• water pistol; squirt gun; water gun

noun:

• column of water; water column

noun:

• water shortage; shortage of water supply

noun:

• deep ocean water; deep-sea water

noun:

• water temperature gauge; water temperature meter

noun:

• complete carry - IT term

noun:

• complete carry - IT term