noun:

• superstition; acting superstitiously (for good luck)

noun:

• good luck to come (omikuji fortune-telling result); future good luck ➜ 御神籤【おみくじ】

noun:

• good luck charm; something that encourages or invites good luck

noun:

• using the Japanese-reading of kanji to represent native Japanese words (irrespective of the kanji's actual meaning)

noun:

• compound ideograph (one of the six kanji classifications); kanji made up of meaningful parts (e.g. "mountain pass" is up + down + mountain)

noun:

• compound ideograph formation (one of the six kanji classifications); making kanji up of meaningful parts (e.g. "mountain pass" is up + down + mountain) ➜ 会意文字

noun:

• Japanese reading of a kanji (sometimes esp. in ref. to readings that do not correspond to the orig. Chinese meaning of the kanji)

noun / adjectival noun:

• misfortune; bad luck; ill luck; ill fortune Antonym: 幸運

noun:

• figure; form; shape
• appearance; dress; guise
• state; condition; picture; image
• form (of a waka) ➜ 和歌

suffix noun:

• dressed in ...; wearing ...

noun:

• homeroom; form room; form class ➜ ホームルーム
• home run - Baseball term ➜ ホームラン
• human resources ➜ ヒューマンリソース
• heart rate
• house of representatives

noun:

• classical form of i-adjective inflection formed by contraction of the "ku" adverbial form with the classical verb "ari" ("aru")

noun:

• figure eight; figure of eight
• shape of "hachi", the kanji for eight ［八の字］

expression:

• along comes a sucker just begging to be parted from his money - slang - abbreviation ➜ 鴨がねぎを背負って来る
• double stroke of good luck; Perfect timing!; How convenient (for you to show up)!

noun:

• native Japanese kanji (esp. used during the Edo period) - archaism ➜ 国字
• made-up kanji; Chinese character of one's own creation
• creating a character with a group of people ➜ 人文字

~と adverb / ~たる adjective:

• smiling

noun / ~する noun:

• improvement in one's luck; changing one's luck ➜ 縁起直し

noun:

• kanji test; test of kanji skills - abbreviation ➜ 漢字検定

noun:

• kanji test; test of kanji skills

noun:

• test of kanji skills; kanji test ➜ 漢検

noun:

• stereotyped epithet

noun:

• government business

noun:

• one kanji in the name of a nobleperson (with a multiple-kanji name) ➜ 偏諱を賜う

noun:

• Ichijitsu Shinto (alt. name for Hie Shinto: a form of Shinto heavily influenced by Tendai) - abbreviation - obscure term ➜ 山王一実神道

noun:

• model; type (e.g. of machine, goods, etc.)
• type; style; pattern - がた when a suffix ➜ 朝型
• mold (mould); template; model
• kata (standard form of a movement, posture, etc. in martial arts, sport, etc.)
• form (i.e. customary procedure)
• size (i.e. clothing, shoes)
• inch (in diagonal display size)
• (taxonomical) form - obscure term ➜ 品種

noun:

• primary school kanji; list of 1,006 kanji studied in primary school ➜ 教育漢字