noun:

• letter left behind by someone who has departed; farewell letter

noun:

• leaving somebody behind; abandoning someone; marooning someone ➜ 置いてけぼり【おいてけぼり】

expression / ichidan verb:

• to fall behind the times

noun:

• leaving somebody behind; abandoning someone; marooning someone ➜ 置いてきぼり【おいてきぼり】

noun:

• rudely reaching over one's serving tray to grab food behind it with one's chopsticks

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be talked about behind one's back

noun:

• room behind the curtain of a noh stage, where the actors prepare; greenroom (noh); mirror room [literal]
• hall of mirrors (at Versailles)

expression:

• there is unexpected good in what others have left behind; last but not least; there is fortune in leftovers [literal] - proverb ➜ 残り物には福がある【のこりものにはふくがある】

noun:

• writing characters in the air with one's behind (by moving one's hips) - colloquialism

noun / ~する noun:

• pushing from behind
• backing; supporting
• instigation; instigator

noun:

• shoji with glass window behind a sliding bottom half

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to fall behind; to drop out
• to drop; to fall; to spill; to scatter

adverb / ~の noun:

• behind closed doors; behind-the-scenes; (under the veil of) secrecy

noun:

• leaving behind

noun:

• focal point of a lens behind the subject ➜ ピント

noun:

• right behind

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• behind others; losing out to others

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be left behind ➜ 置いてきぼりを食う

expression / noun:

• violence behind closed doors; domestic violence ➜ ドメスティックバイオレンス・家庭内暴力【かていないぼうりょく】

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to leave behind
• to put off; to postpone

noun / ~する noun:

• starting late or behind schedule

noun:

• flute-player seating area (noh), behind upstage left

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to have one's hands tied behind one; to be arrested

expression:

• when winter comes spring isn't far behind - proverb

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to become late; to fall behind; to lag; to pass (of time)