noun:

• soil
• loamy soil; loam; soil with clay content of 25-37.5%

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to rebound; to recoil; to spring back up; to bounce back
• to splash
• to have a repercussion; to have a reciprocal effect

noun:

• air; atmosphere
• mood; situation ➜ 空気を読む【くうきをよむ】
• someone with no presence; someone who doesn't stand out at all - colloquialism - idiom

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to boil (something in hot water) ➜ 煮る【にる】
• to treat with medicinal steam (a swelling, etc.) ➜ たでる

noun / ~の noun / suffix noun:

• all; everything; the whole; lock, stock, and barrel

adverbial noun:

• absolutely not (with negative); without exception; entirely not

adjectival noun:

• agile; nimble; light (of foot)
• casual (clothing); light (e.g. luggage)
• carefree; with limited responsibility

noun:

• one person; one customer - honorific language
• unmarried woman (with no children) over the age of 30 - colloquialism ➜ 負け犬

noun:

• honeycomb toffee; sponge toffee; foam candy from heated brown sugar mixed with baking soda - From Portuguese "caramelo"

noun:

• Gion Festival (in Kyoto during the month of July, with high point on the 17th)

noun / ~する noun:

• sharing a table with someone you don't know (e.g. at a restaurant)

noun:

• plaything; playing (with a toy)
• gambling
• activity using hand-gestures (esp. playing games or singing songs)

noun:

• newspaper with a lot of advertisements and delivered for free of charge - From English "free paper"

noun:

• zaru soba (soba served on a bamboo draining basket with dipping sauce)

noun:

• any large, red, deep-water scorpionfish with big eyes
• Matsubara's red rockfish (Sebastes matsubarae) ➜ 赤魚鯛

noun:

• round coin with a (square) hole in the center - colloquialism
• coin made of non-precious materials
• money

noun:

• bianzhong (ancient Chinese musical instrument; bronze bells set in a wooden frame, played with a mallet) ➜ 鐘

suffix / adjective:

• (after a noun or the stem of an adjective) seeming very... (usu. with a negative connotation)

noun:

• prostitute (esp. one consorting with occupation soldiers after WWII); pan-pan girl

noun:

• type of marriage where the man merely visits his wife without living with her; duolocal marriage

noun:

• broadnose sevengill shark (Notorynchus cepedianus, species of circumglobal cow shark with 7 gill slits) ➜ ブロードノーズセブンギルシャーク

noun:

• fully raising the curtain when an actor enters or exits (noh)
• curtain with a family crest

expression / adjective:

• With the best will in the world, you can't say that it's good

noun / prefix noun:

• Jakarta; Java - applied to Javan items imported by Dutch traders during the Edo period - From Dutch "Jacatra"

noun:

• potato (Solanum tuberosum) - abbreviation ➜ ジャガタラ芋
• striped fabric imported from Java (often cotton, sometimes mixed with silk) - abbreviation

noun:

• taking food directly from a communal dish with one's own chopsticks (a breach of etiquette) ➜ 取り箸

noun:

• item with a long slender neck (e.g. vase, bottle)
• long-necked person