noun:

• defeat; loss; losing (a game)

suffix:

• failing to live up to (one's name, looks, etc.) ➜ 名前負け【なまえまけ】

noun:

• discount; loss (on a sale)

noun:

• gobang (game played on go board involving lining up stones); gomoku; Five in a Row

noun:

• kakko; Japanese hourglass drum, played with sticks on both sides, traditionally used in gagaku - Music term

noun:

• soft-boiled egg marinated in soy and mirin (usu. topping on ramen) - Food term

noun:

• four-corner kanji character stroke classification system

noun:

• kanji "dog" or "animal" radical at left

noun:

• large character
• alternative kanji used for numbers

noun:

• kanji "plow" or "three-branch tree" radical

noun:

• kanji used for sound equivalence ➜ 当て字

noun:

• skull; cranium
• kanji "person" radical at top ➜ 人屋根

noun:

• kanji "bare bone" radical at left ➜ 歹偏

noun:

• kanji radical 79 at right ➜ 殳旁

noun:

• kanji "thread" radical at left
• textile industry

noun:

• kanji "plow" or "three-branch tree" radical ➜ 耒偏

noun:

• ATOK (Advanced Technology Of Kana-kanji transfer) - IT term

noun:

• draft; rough copy - abbreviation
• cursive script; "grass" kanji ➜ 草書

noun:

• ladder form of "high" kanji - 髙 as variant of 高

noun:

• cursive script; flowing writing style; "grass" kanji ➜ 六体

noun:

• running script; semi-cursive style of kanji ➜ 行書【ぎょうしょ】

noun:

• imperial loyalist samurai of the Bakumatsu-era
• patriots; idealists willing to sacrifice themselves for the good of the nation

noun / ~する noun:

• transmitting; referring to; passing on

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to print (on a press)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to put on a crown

expression / ichidan verb:

• to sit on a cushion

expression / ichidan verb:

• to pin a crime on