noun:

• paper lantern; Chinese lantern; Japanese lantern

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• foolishly (laughing); thoughtlessly (smiling) - onomatopoeia
• indiscreetly (talking); carelessly (speaking); frivolously; flippantly - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun / adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• thin (paper, cloth, etc.); flimsy - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• flaring up; bursting into flames - onomatopoeia - archaism

noun:

• paper doll to which children pray for fine weather (usu. white, and shaped like a Buddhist priest)

noun:

• clipping (of newspaper article, etc.); cutting; scrap (for a scrapbook)
• cut-out (picture, coloured paper, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ 切り抜き絵・切り抜き細工

noun:

• overlap width; margin for pasting together (e.g. two pieces of paper)
• elbowroom; leeway; room; margin; allowance; latitude

noun:

• impractical desktop theory (proposition); unworkable idea; an idea that isn't worth the paper it's written on - four character idiom

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to make something (e.g. paper) from wet, pulpy material by spreading it thin and drying it

noun:

• train ticket printed on soft paper, etc. (usu. dispensed from a vending machine as part of a roll) ➜ 硬券

noun:

• branch of a sacred tree (esp. sakaki) with paper or cotton strips attached (used as a Shinto offering) - poetic name - archaism ➜ 玉串

noun:

• light used as a religious offering ➜ 御灯・神灯
• paper lantern (hung up near the door of performers and geishas)

noun:

• paper theater; toy theater; puppet theater - From English "paper puppet theater"

noun:

• examination paper; examination script; answer sheet
• answer (to an exam question)

noun:

• chopstick envelope; chopstick wrapper; paper envelope in which chopsticks are presented

~の noun / noun:

• deckle-edged (e.g. paper)
• eared (e.g. jug); with lugs

noun:

• koban; small former Japanese oval gold coin ➜ 大判

noun / ~の noun:

• oval ➜ 小判型

noun:

• small size (of paper) ➜ 判【はん】

noun:

• paper holder

noun / ~する noun:

• starching (e.g. clothes)
• pasting; gluing (e.g. paper, a letter)

noun:

• correction fluid; correcting fluid; white out; Wite-out; Liquid Paper; Tipp-Ex ➜ 修正テープ

noun:

• quality paper

noun:

• (paper) stencil; stereotype; papier-mache mold; papier-mache mould

noun:

• weight of 1000 sheets of paper; ream weight

suffix / counter:

• counter for leaves, pieces of paper, etc.
• counter for boats - archaism

noun:

• paper medium; print medium (as opposed to other media)

~の noun:

• print

ichidan verb:

• to blink repeatedly; to wave repeatedly (e.g. a paper fan)

noun:

• inside of the front cover (of book); front end-paper ➜ 見返し【みかえし】