adverb / noun:

• whatever; what; what sort of; any kind of
• nothing whatever (with neg. verb)

noun:

• any turtle of the genus Mauremys (esp. the Japanese pond turtle, Mauremys japonica)

noun:

• declaring that one is one tile away from winning on one's first discard and before any tiles have been called or kongs declared - abbreviation - Mahjong term ➜ ダブル立直【ダブルリーチ】

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to make oneself popular without any regard to others; to take all the credit to oneself

noun:

• simplified form (of a kanji); any of 22 simplified non-joyo kanji variants commonly used in print ➜ 常用漢字

noun:

• principle holding that any matters left unresolved at the end of one Diet session are not to be carried over to the next

noun:

• commentary (on any of the 384 lines of the hexagrams in the Book of Changes)

noun:

• scramble intersection; pedestrian scramble; X-crossing; diagonal crossing; intersection allowing pedestrians to cross simultaneously in any direction

expression:

• to do whatever it takes; to use every trick in the book; to use any means; to stop at nothing

noun:

• paca (any of either species of paca, esp. lowland paca, Agouti paca)

noun:

• distinguished person - four character idiom
• thirteen orphans; winning hand containing one of each terminal and honor tile plus one extra copy of any of them - Mahjong term

noun:

• cow's tongue
• sole (any flatfish of suborder Soleoidei, esp. the tonguefishes of family Cynoglossidae or true soles of family Soleidae)

noun:

• which one
• one of; any of

noun:

• any of a number of sets of thirty-three holy places enshrining Avalokitesvara (esp. those comprising a popular pilgrimage in the Kinki region) ➜ 西国三十三所

expression:

• first "horse day" in any lunar month, but esp. the second lunar month; traditional day for worship at "fox deity" shrines

noun:

• Pacific ocean perch (Sebastes alutus)
• comb goby (Ctenotrypauchen microcephalus)
• Matsubara's red rockfish (Sebastes matsubarae) ➜ 赤魚鯛
• Japanese dace (Tribolodon hakonensis) ➜ 石斑魚
• any edible red saltwater fish

noun:

• volume (sound level)
• volume (books)
• volume; substantial quantity (e.g. hearty meal); bulk; bulkiness; mass ➜ ボリュームサラダ
• any kind of adjustment knob, not necessarily for sound

adverb:

• too; also; likewise; either ➜ 矢張り【やはり】
• still; as before ➜ 矢張り【やはり】
• even so; either way; after all; nonetheless; in any event; all the same ➜ 矢張り【やはり】
• as expected ➜ 矢張り【やはり】

expression:

• of soup and love, the first is the best; one's first spouse tends to be better than any subsequent spouse - proverb

noun:

• true bristletail (any insect of order Thysanura, esp. of family Lepismatidae)
• Oriental silverfish (Ctenolepisma villosa) ➜ 大和紙魚
• someone who is unable to apply what they have read - derogatory term

noun:

• any brown or reddish-brown frog (esp. of family Ranidae)
• Japanese brown frog (Rana japonica); brown frog ➜ 日本赤蛙

noun:

• phoenix (bird of Egyptian mythology) - From Latin
• phoenix (any palm tree of genus Phoenix, incl. the date palm)

expression:

• (I) won't (say) anything no matter what (expression is followed by negative verb relating to say, answer, etc.) to not (tell) even under any threat ➜ 口が裂けても言えない【くちがさけてもいえない】

~の noun:

• worm-eaten; moth-eaten

noun:

• holes eaten in clothing, leaves, etc. by caterpillars, moths, etc.
• leaf warbler (any bird of genus Phylloscopus); chiffchaff; willow wren - usually written using kana alone

expression / adverb:

• if by any chance; just in case; in the worst case; in the unlikely event that; 10000 to 1 [literal]