noun:

• switch (of a railroad); points (of a railway) ➜ ポイント

noun:

• semantic content (of a term); meaning (of a sentence) - Linguistics term

noun:

• normalization (of a social problem, of a situation, etc.)

noun / ~の noun:

• lacking a portfolio (of a minister of state, etc.)

noun:

• tread (of a wheel); step (of a stair)

noun:

• the whole body; limbs ［五体］
• the five styles in Japanese calligraphy ➜ 行書・書道・真書・草書・大篆・八分【はっぷん】・隷書・楷書・篆書

noun:

• perestroika; reform movement within the Soviet Communist Party in the 1980s - From Russian "perestroyka"

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to eat something for the first time in the season

noun:

• public official stationed in the capital (under the ritsuryo system)

expression / adverb:

• in the same breath; hardly had the words been said ➜ 舌の根も乾かぬうち【したのねもかわかぬうち】

expression / adverb:

• in the same breath; hardly had the words been said ➜ 舌の根の乾かぬうち【したのねのかわかぬうち】

pre-noun adjectival:

• The Great (e.g. in film and book titles); The Grand

noun:

• nap room (e.g. for doctors in an emergency ward, or firefighters in a fire station)

noun:

• favourable position (esp. in horse racing, e.g. in 3rd to 5th place during a race) - abbreviation ➜ 好位置

noun:

• texture (cloth, fabric, paper)
• market tone; undertone
• balance between the position of white and black stones (in go) ➜ 囲碁

noun:

• dish of vegetables, konnyaku, etc. simmered in soy sauce and water until the liquid is almost gone - Food term

noun / suffix:

• including; inclusive of ［こみ］

noun:

• komi; extra points given to the white player as compensation for playing second (in go) - usu. コミ - usually written using kana alone - abbreviation ➜ コミ出し【コミだし】

noun:

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

noun:

• sarugaku (form of theatre popular in Japan during the 11th to 14th centuries) - archaism
• noh ［さるがく］ ➜ 能楽
• fooling around ［さるごう］

noun:

• Chinese bronze inscriptions; type of lettering used on metal objects, especially in China during the Yin and Zhou dynasties

noun:

• vienna sausage cut in the shape of an octopus

proper noun:

• Chinese Taipei; name used by the Republic of China (Taiwan) when participating in international competitions

expression:

• tread on a worm and it will turn; even a tiny bug will defend itself; even the weakest and smallest beings have their own wills, so do not make light of them - proverb

adjective:

• low (rank, degree, value, content, quality, etc.) Antonym: 高い・高い
• low (position); close to the ground
• short (height)
• deep (voice); in a low key; low (volume)

noun:

• courteous language (i.e. humble language in which an action or object is not directed toward the listener or a third party) ➜ 謙譲語ＩＩ