noun:

• Jintan (brand-name breath mint marketed as having various medicinal properties); refreshing candies resembling BBs or metallic dragees

noun:

• all terminals; winning hand consisting of only ones and nines as pungs or kongs plus a pair - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• dyeing one's hair oneself (as opposed to having it done by a hairdresser) - From English "self colour"

noun:

• apartment too small to be legally rented out, and hence let as office or storage space

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to go to the top; to climb to the top; to ascend to the top; to reach the summit (e.g. of a mountain)
• to be engrossed in; to be very enthusiastic about; to be infatuated with

noun:

• method of dyeing, developed in Okinawa, in which a single stencil is used to produce richly polychromatic designs; traditional dyed cloth from Okinawa

noun:

• court ladies of the middle rank serving in the inner palace (Heian period)
• female servant for a samurai family
• lady-in-waiting working in the inner palace of the Edo castle (Edo period)

expression / noun:

• withered trees and cold ash; "someone who is detached and free of desires" [figurative]; "someone who has no vitality" [figurative]

noun:

• the facts; the truth; the true state of affairs

adverbial noun:

• in truth; in fact; in reality; actually

noun:

• the five brights (high-scoring combination in hanafuda); the five light cards; the five hikari cards ➜ 花札

noun:

• particle; postpositional word in Japanese grammar that functions as an auxiliary to a main word - Linguistics term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to give up as hopeless; to wash one's hands (of someone or something)

expression:

• rain that starts to fall as though trying to prevent a guest from leaving

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to open one's eyes wide (as in fear or anger) ➜ 白目【しろめ】
• to faint

noun:

• (as opposed to those compiled later) ancient fudoki compiled by imperial order in 713 CE ➜ 風土記

~と adverb:

• sound effect for slurping back up excess saliva (e.g. as stimulated by desire for food) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• pitching forward, as if to fall ➜ のめる

adjectival noun / ~の noun / noun:

• proactive; forward-looking; positive
• hasty (without sufficient preparation); rushed

interjection:

• ah!; oh!; alas! - also written as 於乎, 於戯, 嗟乎, 嗟夫, 吁, etc.
• yes; indeed; that is correct
• aah; gah; argh - in exasperation
• hey!; yo!
• uh huh; yeah yeah; right; gotcha

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun / adjectival noun:

• unsteadily (e.g. on one's feet); shakily; staggering; reeling; tottering; dizzily - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• wandering; wavering; aimlessly; without knowing what one is doing; having no goal in mind - onomatopoeia

noun:

• priority seat; courtesy seat; seat provided in trains, buses, etc. for the use of the disabled, young children, the elderly, pregnant women, etc.

noun:

• Carcharodon (genus containing the extant great white shark and the extinct megalodon shark in the mackerel or white shark family Lamnidae)

prefix:

• anti-

noun:

• antithesis ➜ 反定立
• fanqie; traditional Chinese spelling system in which two characters are used: the first one for the onset, the second one for rhyme and tone - abbreviation ➜ 反切

expression:

• danger past and God forgotten; once on shore, we pray no more; once it's past the throat, one forgets the heat (of the swallowed object) [literal] - proverb

noun:

• (since) the beginning of the universe; (since) the dawn of time - four character idiom

temporal noun:

• since the creation (of the world); since the dawn of history - four character idiom