noun:

• rosette; ceiling rose; circular electrical cord mounting, usu. on a ceiling

noun:

• standby electricity consumption; power use by devices on standby; phantom load

noun:

• lifestyle; way of life; daily goings-on; daily habits

expression:

• quick to take a hint; very responsive; quick on the uptake - abbreviation ➜ ツーと言えばカー【ツーといえばカー】

expression:

• doing something on one's own without another's help - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to look dead on the inside; to have a blank expression - colloquialism - idiom

expression:

• prevention is better than cure; an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure; look before you leap; forewarned is forearmed; a stitch in time saves nine; a walking stick before stumbling [literal] - proverb

noun:

• beginning and end

noun / ~する noun:

• doing something from beginning to end; being unchanged from beginning to end

adverb:

• from beginning to end; the whole time; throughout; consistently

noun / ~する noun:

• bail; releasing on bail

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to pick on; to tease

adverbial noun / ~の noun:

• at parting; on parting

noun / suffix noun:

• playing
• play (margin between on and off, gap before pressing button or lever has an effect) - usually written using kana alone

noun / suffix noun:

• composition; piece of music; song; track (on a record)

noun:

• tune; melody; air
• enjoyment; fun; interest; pleasure

noun:

• food delivery service; catering
• walk-on part (in a play or film); background actor; extra

noun / ~する noun:

• stretching pieces of a kimono on boards to dry after they have been washed and starched

noun:

• matching dice; doublets
• bet on two horses in the same bracket
• repdigit; monodigit - Mathematics term

noun:

• Miura map fold; special technique for folding used on some solar panel arrays

noun:

• corn dog (frankfurter on a stick dipped in batter and deep-fried) - From English "American dog"

noun / expression:

• iroha order; traditional ordering of Japanese syllabaries (based on a Buddhist poem) ➜ 五十音順

noun:

• shikantaza; meditation practice where one stays intensely focused without focusing on any particular object - Buddhism term

expression / adjective:

• completely helpless; unable even to drive away the flies on one's own head - idiom

noun:

• Japanese Western-style envelope (opening on the long dimension; numbered 0-7, each with different sizes)

noun / ~する noun:

• obtaining items such as books, CDs and DVDs before the date they officially go on sale - abbreviation - From English "flying get" ➜ フライングゲット

noun:

• blessing of heaven; hand in which the dealer goes out on their initial deal - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• inscription of a fantastic birdlike creature found on Yin and Zhou dynasty bronze ware, etc. - obscure term ➜ 文様