noun:

• event where young men and women paint each others' cheeks with black ink or soot during Little New Year in the San'in region ➜ 小正月

noun:

• elegance; grace; refinement; class; dignity

suffix:

• article; item

suffix / counter:

• counter for items (of food, etc.); counter for dishes or courses (at a restaurant) - sometimes pronounced ぴん

noun:

• scaffold; scaffolding
• foothold; footing
• foothold (e.g. in business); foundation; base
• convenience for transportation; convenience of access (by road or rail) ➜ 交通の便【こうつうのべん】

noun:

• phenomime; mimetic word; word that mimics an action, condition, or manner that does not make a sound (e.g. "damp", "calmly") - e.g., じめじめ、ゆったり - Linguistics term

noun / ~する noun / intransitive verb:

• looking up to a person as one's own master or model; being influenced by a person through his works; idolizing

noun:

• with no one upon whom to depend; utter loneliness; the lonely and the helpless; people who have no kith or kin - four character idiom

noun:

• official post; regular post; permanent office
• principal post (as opposed to secondary post)

pronoun:

• I (of someone in government or the civil service)

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to live on air
• to derive nourishment from an elemental portion of mist or fog (the goal of a mountain ascetic) ➜ 仙人

noun:

• bamboo shoots boiled, sliced, fermented, dried or preserved in salt, then soaked in hot water and sea salt - From Chinese "mianma" ➜ 支那竹

noun:

• bamboo shoots boiled, sliced, fermented, dried or preserved in salt, then soaked in hot water and sea salt - sensitive ➜ 麺媽

noun:

• one's business - archaism - polite language
• reading of scriptures before a (statue of) Buddha
• bargain; discount
• money paid to a prostitute or geisha

noun:

• restoring a computer to factory settings (esp. through reinstallation of the operating system, or use of a recovery CD) - IT term

noun:

• nailist; someone whose occupation is to cut any type of nail, apply artificial nails (or "nail art") and care for nails

noun:

• Asplenium antiquum (species of spleenwort) ➜ 大谷渡
• Dendropanax trifidus (species of flowering plant) ➜ 隠れ蓑
• leaves used for serving or offering sake, rice, etc. ➜ 三角柏

noun / ~する noun:

• accumulation; retention; collection; sequestration (as in carbon dioxide sequestration); storage (usually a liquid, e.g. rainwater, or behind a dam.)

expression:

• harsh words make the going rough; consider your words; people may be offended (or not) by the way you speak - proverb

noun:

• inconsistently, horribly drawn animated film or cartoon; animated cartoon episode of lower picture quality than other episodes in the same series - slang

adverb:

• gushing out (e.g. sweat or blood); flowing profusely - onomatopoeia
• thump-thump; bang-bang; pit-a-pat; pitapat; pitter-patter - onomatopoeia
• sound of hoofbeats - onomatopoeia

noun:

• pung (or kong) of east tiles when east is both the round wind and one's seat wind (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 連風牌

noun:

• pung (or kong) of south tiles when south is both the round wind and one's seat wind (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 連風牌

noun:

• pung (or kong) of west tiles when west is both the round wind and one's seat wind (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 連風牌

noun:

• pung (or kong) of north tiles when north is both the round wind and one's seat wind (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 連風牌

noun:

• longing for someone or something; waiting for someone of great talent to arrive; stretching one's neck and standing on tiptoes [literal] - four character idiom

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to boast; to brag
• to recite (a song or poem to oneself)
• to bark; to roar; to howl

noun:

• hand-clapping performed to celebrate the conclusion or completion of something (3-3-3-1 rhythm, done once)
• single clap after a cheer