noun:

• file wrapper for a patent; correspondence about the status of a patent between the inventor and the patent office

noun:

• building industry; construction industry; building trade

noun:

• specialist newspaper; trade journal; specialist journal

noun:

• additions and deletions; adding and deleting; revisions; revising

~する noun:

• to add and to delete; to revise

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to stick to; to cling to; to adhere to
• to become intimate (of a man and woman); to get close; to get married - colloquialism

noun:

• employer's house; master's house

prefix noun:

• (of) Japanese descent

noun:

• non-Japanese of Japanese descent; nikkeijin - abbreviation ➜ 日系人
• company, etc. set up with Japanese capital; company managed by Japanese or non-Japanese of Japanese descent

noun:

• castle and moat; castle's moat - obscure term
• City God (Taoist guardian god of a city)

noun:

• fruit grown near the tip of the vine (hence stunted and unripe) ➜ 本生り
• weak-looking fellow; pale-faced man; pasty-faced man; pallid man

noun / prefix:

• both (e.g. both shoulders, etc.)

noun:

• ryo (obsolete unit of currency)
• 41-42 g (one sixteenth of a kin) ➜ 斤
• 2 tan (measure of fabric size) ➜ 反【たん】

counter:

• counter for carriages (e.g. in a train); counter for vehicles - also written 輛 and 輌

noun:

• weather; look of the sky
• situation; turn of affairs; signs; way the wind is blowing

noun:

• reverberation; swelling (of a hymn); trailing note
• lingering memory; aftertaste
• suggestiveness (of a book, poem, etc.)

noun:

• snap (e.g. of the wrist in baseball)
• snapshot (esp. of people) - abbreviation ➜ スナップショット・スナップ写真
• snap fastener; press stud ➜ ホック

noun / ~する noun:

• ending the climbing season; closure of a mountain to climbers
• closing a mine; discontinuation of mining

noun:

• Menshevik; member of the non-Leninist wing of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party - From Russian "Men'sheviki" ➜ ボルシェビキ

noun / ~する noun:

• running aground; stranding ➜ 座礁
• being disabled (of a tank, train, etc.); being put out of action

noun:

• shallow clogs (worn by nobles; originally made of leather, later made of black lacquered paulownia)

noun:

• provincial governor (under the ritsuryo system, any of a group of officials, esp. the director) ➜ 守【かみ】

noun:

• former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators) ➜ 律令制

noun:

• very old type of kiln made by digging a hole in the side of a hill

noun:

• aleph (first letter of Hebrew alphabet) - From Hebrew
• Aleph (new name of religious group Aum Shinrikyo) ［アーレフ］

noun:

• scarab (Egyptian gemstone) - From French "scarabee"
• scarabeid (any of a group of beetles including the scarab beetle, Scarabeus sacer)

noun:

• deluded mind (a mind polluted with klesha, incapable of understanding the original essence of things) - Buddhism term ➜ 煩悩

noun:

• tiger's tail
• gooseneck loosestrife (species of flowering plant, Lysimachia clethroides) ➜ 岡虎の尾
• Asplenium incisum (species of spleenwort) ➜ 虎の尾羊歯

noun:

• Lushan Conference (1959 meeting of the Communist Party of China to discuss the Great Leap Forward)