noun / prefix / suffix:

• medium; average; middle

noun:

• moderation
• middle school - abbreviation ➜ 中一・中学校
• China - abbreviation ➜ 中国
• volume two (of three) - abbreviation ➜ 中巻

suffix noun:

• during (a certain time when one did or is doing something); under (construction, etc.); while ➜ 話し中
• in; out of (e.g. three out of ten people) ➜ 中【じゅう】

noun:

• idea; notion; concept; conception
• sense (e.g. of duty)

noun / ~する noun:

• resignation; preparedness; acceptance
• observation and contemplation; meditation - Buddhism term

noun:

• result; effect; performance; success
• workmanship; execution; shape and quality (of an article); finishing touches

noun:

• en-tout-cas (track or tennis court surface made of clay and crushed brick) - From French

expression / noun:

• shape of the "dai" kanji (esp. person with arms and legs outstretched); sprawling; lying spread-eagled

noun:

• undeveloped woodland near populated area
• settlement pattern of living in upland valleys and cultivating lower slopes

expression:

• Out of Asia and Into Europe (slogan calling for Japan to align itself with the West) - four character idiom

noun:

• Kristallnacht (night of concerted violence against Jews in Germany and Austria from November 9-10, 1938)

noun:

• Chypre fragrance (family of scents including sage, lavender, and oak moss, used in perfumes)

noun:

• photographer, usually an amateur, who likes to take pictures of models and presenter ladies in exhibitions - abbreviation ➜ カメラ小僧

noun:

• Oversight Department (division of the daijokan responsible for controlling central and provincial governmental offices) ➜ 太政官

noun:

• Cucurbita pepo; diverse species that includes many varieties of pumpkin, squash and zucchini

noun:

• spotted estuary smooth-hound (Mustelus lenticulatus, species of houndshark found around southern Australia and New Zealand)

noun:

• stripe-tailed Goanna (Varanus gilleni, species of carnivorous monitor lizard native to northwestern and central Australia)

noun:

• train of dress; trailing skirt ➜ 引き摺り
• woman who doesn't work and only thinks about fashion ➜ 引き摺り

noun:

• magistrate in charge of finding out and converting hidden Christians (during the Edo period)

noun:

• (one of) the eight earliest and most prestigious high schools (Meiji period) - From English "number school"

noun:

• person or organization (esp. yakuza) in charge of solving problems caused by subordinates - slang
• member of a biker gang driving behind the rest (in charge of keeping the police away from the other members) - slang ➜ 暴走族

adjectival noun:

• smooth (of a surface); glassy; velvety; soft
• smooth (of an action, proceedings, etc.); fluent (speech); fluid; trouble-free
• continuously differentiable - Mathematics term

noun:

• beehive; hive; honeycomb
• something full of holes; "swiss cheese" [figurative] - idiom
• honeycomb tripe; wall of a cow's second stomach - Food term
• cast iron anvil stand - obsolete term

noun:

• style of speaking in which the speaker gives the end of each sentence or phrase a higher intonation - From English "up talk"

noun:

• coping; top rail; cap piece; head board; what covers the top of a wall, torii or gate, not necessarily made of wood - Architecture term

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to peek (though a keyhole, gap, etc.)
• to look down into (a ravine, etc.)
• to peek into (a shop, bookstore, etc.)
• to sneak a look at; to take a quick look at
• to peep (through a telescope, microscope, etc.)

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to stick out (a scarf from a collar, etc.); to peek through (sky through a forest canopy, etc.)

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to examine (an expression); to study (a face)

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to face - esp. 臨く - archaism ➜ 臨む

noun:

• wealth, prosperity, and arrogant splendor (splendour); (living sumptuously) intoxicated by wealth and power; luxury - four character idiom

noun:

• caves dug as tombs in and around Kamakura during the Kamakura and Muromachi periods