noun:

• ball; sphere; globe; orb
• bead (of sweat, dew, etc.); drop; droplet
• ball (in sports) - esp. 球
• pile (of noodles, etc.)
• bullet - esp. 弾; also written as 弾丸
• bulb (i.e. a light bulb) - esp. 球
• lens (of glasses, etc.)
• bead (of an abacus) - esp. 玉,珠
• ball (i.e. a testicle) - esp. 玉 - slang - abbreviation ➜ 金玉【きんたま】
• gem; jewel (esp. spherical; sometimes used figuratively); pearl - esp. 玉,珠; also written as 璧
• female entertainer (e.g. a geisha)
• person (when commenting on their nature); character - derogatory term
• item, funds or person used as part of a plot

noun / suffix noun:

• egg ➜ 玉子

suffix noun:

• coin - usu. だま
• precious; beautiful; excellent

noun / ~する noun:

• being in charge (of an area of responsibility); being responsible (for a work role, etc.)

noun:

• wife; Mrs; madam ［ふじん・はしかし］ - honorific language
• wife of a nobleman (aristocrat, etc.) ［ふじん］ - archaism
• consort of the emperor ［ふじん・ぶにん］ - archaism

adjective:

• stinking; smelly
• suspicious; fishy
• clumsy; unskilled

suffix / adjective:

• smelling of
• looking like; appearing like; smacking of; -ish

noun:

• change of pace; change of mood; (mental) break (e.g. going for a walk); refreshment - four character idiom

noun:

• old shop; shop of long standing

~の noun:

• well-established; first of the kind; veteran

noun:

• soft fiberboard; soft fibreboard - senses 1 and 2 are originally from an abbreviation of "texture"
• cloth; fabric; material - often used in brand names
• tex; unit of linear mass density of fibres

noun / ~する noun:

• rebound
• relapse after a diet; regaining lost weight

noun:

• return of symptoms after withdrawal of medicine

noun:

• ghee (held to be the greatest of all flavours); "the ultimate truth of Buddhism" [figurative]; "nirvana" [figurative] - Buddhism term ➜ 五味

expression / adjective:

• easy; trifling; harmless; of no concern; nothing
• nothing of the sort; not at all - in the form of ~でもなんでもない ➜ ではない

noun:

• stage of ennui (esp. in one's married life); period of lassitude; lethargic period; rut

noun:

• divine punishment; wrath of God; justice of heaven; nemesis
• suitable punishment; just deserts; come-uppance

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• half-year (sometimes esp. as an Edo-period duration of employment) ➜ 一季
• half of a season

noun:

• musical (dramatic) piece in several acts; type of koto solo; lively type of shamisen song

adjectival noun / noun / ~の noun:

• intangible; incorporeal
• by force; outrageous; cruel; unreasonable ➜ 無理
• making light of; making fun of

noun / ~する noun:

• compounding of medicine; dispensing (medicine)
• dispensation (e.g. of heaven); providence; combining; arranging; putting together

noun / ~する noun:

• alliance (esp. originally of individual member states of the Six Kingdoms with the Qin dynasty) ➜ 合従・秦・六国

noun:

• opening (of a bottle); broaching
• beginning; opening; commencement (e.g. of sales); first sale

noun:

• Massacre of the Innocents; episode of infanticide by Herod that appears in the New Testament

noun:

• Battle of Dan-no-ura; final battle of the Genpei War (1185)

noun:

• game played as a form of punishment by the loser of a contest

noun:

• Imjin War (1592-1597); Hideyoshi's invasions of Korea; battle(s) of Bunroku and Keicho

noun:

• narrow escape from the jaws of death - four character idiom
• there being barely a chance of escaping death

noun:

• superficial learning; book learning; merely knowing the meanings of a large number of individual words - four character idiom

noun:

• irregular conjugation (inflection, declension) of s-stem verbs; conjugation of the verb "suru"