noun:

• adding sounds to a soundtrack after a film has been made; postrecording; postsynchronization; postsynchronisation; postlooping; dubbing - abbreviation - From English "after recording" ➜ アフターレコーディング

noun / ~する noun / transitive:

• biting into a whole fruit (esp. apple)

noun:

• cross in a circle

noun:

• send a request

noun / ~する noun:

• visit to a company

noun:

• hut where a fire was kept to keep deer, wild boars, etc. away from fields; hut where a mosquito-repelling fire was kept - meaning uncertain - archaism

noun:

• one of the six administrators of a Zen temple who substitutes for the chief priest - Buddhism term ➜ 六知事

noun:

• scheme in which a man and woman trick another man into a compromising situation for blackmail; badger game

noun / ~する noun:

• setting up a stall or booth (bazaar, festival)

noun / noun or verb acting prenominally / ~する noun:

• opening a branch office; opening a store

noun:

• sprout of a plant shooting from under the soil

noun:

• wife of a shogun or a highest-ranking nobleman

noun:

• interrupting a game; time out - poss. reversal of 待った - children's language ➜ タイム

noun:

• ending a sentence with a noun ➜ 体言止め

godan ~す verb:

• to throw a person down

suffix noun:

• a little over; a little more than
• powerhouse; one of the biggest; one of the most powerful

noun:

• edge of a gabled roof; verge - Architecture term

noun:

• maneuver to draw a sword from its scabbard and cut immediately - Martial Arts term

noun:

• Chinese name for a high government office (ritsuryo period)
• alias; pseudonym ［からな］ - archaism

expression / ichidan verb:

• to graduate from a university

expression:

• just as it is reassuring to have a companion when traveling, it is important for us to care for each other as we pass through this life

expression:

• better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion; better be first in a village than second at Rome; better to be the mouth of a chicken than the rear end of a cow [literal] - proverb

noun:

• reverse side of a paper
• reading between the lines - abbreviation ➜ 眼光紙背【がんこうしはい】

expression:

• as a child; when one was a child

noun:

• grasping one's chopsticks the same way one might hold a walking stick (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• rumor of a romance (rumour)