noun:

• hiragana; cursive Japanese syllabary used primarily for native Japanese words (esp. function words, inflections, etc.) ➜ 片仮名

noun / ~する noun:

• service; ministry; attendance; church work
• offering goods at a reduced price; providing a service for free

noun:

• small private school (esp. for cramming)
• private school (in the Edo period, orig. run by Confucianists)

noun / ~する noun:

• girl hunt; trying to pick up a girl; looking for a girlfriend ➜ ボーイハント

noun:

• bunt performed for a base hit - Baseball term - From English "safety bunt" ➜ 犠牲バント

noun:

• tooth hardening toy (for infants); teether; teething ring
• tooth hardening meal; New Year's feast

noun:

• rice seasoned with vinegar, sugar and salt, used for preparing sushi; sushi rice - Food term

adverb:

• for a long time; since long ago; from childhood
• bright and early; early in the morning

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• tender sentiments; being overcome with emotions; having a tender feeling (for a person) - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• working on a day off (to make up for lost time, or to make an impression)

noun:

• bringing one's child to the local park to play for the first time

noun:

• small okurigana used with kanbun
• small kana used for diphthongs (ya, yo, yu, i, etc.)

expression:

• unable to find adequate words (e.g. to express feelings); being at a loss for words

noun:

• blow striking with the flat of the sword
• to slap ➜ 平手打ち
• metal flattened by striking
• tape; flat braid
• type of flat ornamental hairpin made of silver and inscribed with a clan's crest or patterns of birds and flowers ➜ 簪

noun / ~する noun:

• searching for a marriage partner; marriage hunting; activities leading to marriage, e.g. dating, courtship, etc. - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ 結婚活動

noun:

• catarrh of the pulmonary apex; pulmonary apicitis; inflammation of the mucous of the upper lung - Medicine term

noun:

• word for word; one word - four character idiom

godan ~す verb:

• to use within an inch of its life; to use every little bit of; to get the most out of

noun:

• Way of the Five Pecks of Rice (ancient Chinese Daoist movement later known as The Way of the Celestial Masters) ➜ 天師道

noun:

• Way of the Celestial Masters (ancient Chinese Daoist movement orig. known as The Way of the Five Pecks of Rice) ➜ 五斗米道

noun:

• telegony; influence of a previous sire on the offspring of a female with a later sire (discredited theory of heredity)

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to covet; to crave; to lust insatiably for
• to indulge in; to devour greedily

noun:

• Zebrasoma (genus of 7 species of marine tang in the family Acanthuridae with pointed snouts and forward facing spines at the base of the tail)

noun:

• Zebrasoma (genus of 7 species of marine tang in the family Acanthuridae with pointed snouts and forward facing spines at the base of the tail) ➜ ヒレナガハギ属【ヒレナガハギぞく】

noun:

• emergency meeting of the upper house of the Diet (in response to dissolution of the lower house)