noun:

• soup with fried tofu, shiitake mushrooms, carrots, sweet potatoes and daikon flavored with salt or soy sauce and thickened with potato starch

noun:

• calling many harlots and entertainers and have a big party
• starting an important maneuver at the end of a game of go

expression / noun:

• match made in heaven; perfect match; great coupling; sika deer and maple leaves (a common motif in poetry and classical Japanese painting) [literal]

noun:

• businesses offering food and entertainment; cabaret, club, gambling and restaurant businesses
• sex industry; sex-related businesses

adverb / ~と adverb:

• burbling - onomatopoeia
• hollow (sounding) - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / adjectival noun:

• holey; full of holes or dents; lumpy; bumpy

adjectival noun:

• viciously beating; hitting and kicking repeatedly ［ボコボコ・ぼこぼこ］ - colloquialism

adverb / ~と adverb:

• here and there ［ポコポコ・ぽこぽこ］ - onomatopoeia
• (sound of) walking slowly ［ポコポコ・ぽこぽこ］ - onomatopoeia

noun:

• early Edo-period book written entirely in kana or in a mixture of kana and kanji (primarily intended for women and children) - four character idiom

numeric:

• one-tenth; one percent (one-tenth of a wari); 3 mm (one-tenth of a sun); 2.4 mm (one-tenth of a mon, a traditional unit used to measure shoe sizes); 0.1 degree (one-tenth of a do, used to measure body temperature on any temperature scale)

noun:

• one-quarter of a ryou (obsolete unit of currency)
• thickness
• advantageous circumstances
• one-tenth of a monme of silver ➜ 匁【もんめ】

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to pull; to draw; to pull tight
• to string (lines); to run (cable); to stretch
• to pull towards oneself (e.g. someone's sleeve)
• to drag; to haul; to tow
• to lead (e.g. one's followers)
• to take someone somewhere (e.g. a suspect to the police)
• to tempt into joining; to strongly invite to join
• to delay; to prolong
• to lengthen the pronunciation (of a word)
• to quote; to cite; to reference
• to pull the ball - Baseball term
• to wear; to put on

noun:

• Qi (kingdom in China during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Period of the Warring States); Ch'i

noun:

• cost of fuel and lighting; cost of heat and electricity; energy bill; utility cost

expression:

• (whether at) peace or at war; in peacetime and at war; order and chaos

conjunction:

• then; and then; and; if so; because then; if that's the case ➜ それなら

noun:

• every single word and phrase; each and every word - four character idiom

noun:

• drawing and manual arts room; arts and craft room

noun:

• bait-and-switch advertising; bait-and-switch advertisement

noun:

• birth and death; years of birth and death

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to cry wine and sell vinegar; to do deceptive advertisement; to put up a sheep's head and sell dog meat [literal] - idiom

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to dish up; to fill (a bowl) with
• to pile up; to heap up; to fill up; to stack up
• to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to prescribe
• to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)
• to mark out (e.g. scale); to graduate (e.g. thermometer)
• to exaggerate; to apply heavy makeup - slang

noun:

• breaking off contact with someone after having sex with them; wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am; hit it and quit it; fuck and chuck - slang - vulgar

noun:

• workshop ［さいくじょ］ ➜ 工房
• Heian and Kamakura-period furniture workshop (established in temples and various government bodies)
• Edo period office which administered tenders for arms, armor, etc.

noun:

• dog-friendly café; eatery which allows people to bring their pet dogs and provides separate menus for dogs and their owners - From English "dog café"

noun:

• god of harvests and wealth (syncretized with Saraswati, and often taking the form of a heavenly woman, a white snake or a fox) - obscure term ➜ 宇賀神

expression / noun / ~する noun:

• drinking like a fish and eat like a horse; eating mountains of food and drink oceans of liquor - four character idiom

noun:

• Western school; school dedicated to the study of the West and Western languages (late Edo and Meiji periods)

noun:

• assembly of monks and laity (at a rite, sermon, etc.) - Buddhism term
• (monks and laity of) the Jishu sect - Buddhism term ➜ 時宗