noun:

• briefly-boiled chicken breast (served cold and mostly raw as sashimi with wasabi-seasoned shoyu)

noun:

• gemstone totem (esp. as jewelry); healing crystal - From English "power stone"
• Power Stone (video game series)

noun:

• kidney grille; two-section rounded radiator grill, as used on BMW vehicles

adjective:

• hard; solid; tough - esp. 固い and 堅い for wood, 硬い for metal and stone
• stiff; tight; wooden; unpolished (e.g. writing)
• strong; firm (not viscous or easily moved)
• safe; steady; honest; steadfast
• obstinate; stubborn
• bookish; formal; stuffy Antonym: 砕けた

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to make use of aizuchi; to back-channel; to throw in interjections to show that one is paying attention ➜ 相槌【あいづち】

expression:

• there is no use shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted; squeezing your buttocks after you have farted [literal] - proverb

noun:

• Hypogaleus (genus whose sole member is the blacktip tope, Hypogaleus hyugaensis, a hound shark of the family Triakidae)

noun:

• someone (e.g. a woman) who is out of one's league; something beyond one's means

expression:

• the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence; the neighbour's salted rice bran paste (smells sweeter) [literal] - proverb

noun:

• Seven Gods of Fortune; Seven Deities of Good Luck; Seven Lucky Gods

expression:

• any port will do in a storm; when you've lost your boat midstream, even a pot is worth a fortune [literal] - proverb

expression:

• don't be a sore loser; don't make excuses for your failures; a defeated general should not talk of strategy [literal] - proverb

noun:

• meal with family members eating separate foods
• eating alone (not with one's family)
• food sold in single servings ［個食・こ食］

noun:

• offering to a deity or somebody's spirit
• tribute to a person who is about to depart

noun:

• self-inflicted accident; traffic accident where injury is caused by one's own negligence; one-car accident

expression:

• the world is a scene of constant changes; a mulberry field changes into a blue sea [literal] - proverb

noun:

• tirthika; non-Buddhist teachings; non-Buddhist - Buddhism term Antonym: 内道
• heterodoxy; unorthodoxy; heresy; heretic
• demon; fiend; devil; brute; bad person - derogatory term
• type of fish one did not intend to catch

noun:

• something not seen or experienced - From French "jamais vu" ➜ デジャブ

adverb:

• anybody and everybody; with the best of them; as the next fellow - adv equivalent of 誰も ➜ 誰も

noun:

• nut (as in nut and bolt)
• natural unit of information content; nat

noun:

• Generally Recognized as Safe list (Recognised); GRAS list

noun:

• something already finished (accomplished, etc.) ➜ 未遂
• perpetrated crime (as opposed to attempted crime)

noun:

• infusion of kudzu, cinnamon, etc., used as an antifebrile, for hangovers, etc.

noun:

• taking up a new position as chief priest of a Buddhist temple

expression / ichidan verb:

• to give up (something as hopeless); to throw in the towel - idiom