noun:

• greengrocer; fruit and vegetable shop ➜ 八百屋

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• graceful; slim and beautiful

noun:

• exchange and consolidation (of lands)

noun / ~する noun:

• looking to and fro

noun / ~する noun:

• steaming

noun:

• hot and humid; sultry ➜ むしあつい

~の noun:

• chubby; small and plump ➜ プチ・デブ

noun:

• credit card and consumer financing - from クレジット会社 and サラリーマン金融

noun:

• Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday

noun:

• Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday

noun:

• national research and development agency

noun:

• jumping event (track and field) - Sports term

noun / ~する noun:

• gathering and writing up material

noun:

• between short and second; middle - Baseball term

noun:

• active and (first) reserve duty - Military term

noun:

• mixed writing (kanji and kana) ➜ 仮名交じり文

noun:

• chicken and scallion skewer ➜ 焼き鳥

noun / ~する noun:

• oversleeping and hence feeling despair - from 絶望の起床 - slang

noun:

• collation; examining and comparing ➜ 校合

expression / ichidan verb:

• to pass from one's lips; to escape one's lips

noun:

• Wu; region in China, south of the lower Yangtze
• Wu; Southern Wu; kingdom in China during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms era (902-937)
• Wu; Eastern Wu; Sun Wu; kingdom in China during the Three Kingdoms era (222-280) ➜ 三国【さんごく】
• Wu; kingdom in China during the Spring and Autumn era (11th c. - 473 BCE)

noun:

• private school that allows students to advance from one stage of education to the next, often kindergarten to university, without taking entrance exams en route; "escalator school" - colloquialism ➜ エスカレーター学校

noun:

• private school that allows students to advance from one stage of education to the next, often kindergarten to university, without taking entrance exams en route; escalator school [literal] - colloquialism ➜ エスカレーター校

noun:

• various forms of arts (e.g. acrobatics, magic, puppetry, sarugaku acrobatics performance) ➜ 猿楽【さるがく】
• miscellaneous songs popular from the end of the Heian period to the Kamakura period ➜ 歌謡

noun:

• place containing a Buddhist image
• place containing a buddha (e.g. the pure land) ➜ 極楽・浄土
• independent workshop of Buddhist sculptors (from the Heian period onward) ➜ 造仏所

expression / ichidan verb:

• to bend over in the shape of the hiragana character ku; to bend forward from the waist to form a chevron shape