noun:

• narrow, long, and thin pieces of wood strung together that were used to write on in ancient times ➜ 竹簡

noun:

• kitchen-cum-office of a Zen temple or monastery, where meals are prepared and senior priests have their offices

noun:

• Chinese bronze inscriptions; type of lettering used on metal objects, especially in China during the Yin and Zhou dynasties

noun:

• pickles made in brine and fermented rice bran (esp. vegetables, also meat, fish, eggs, etc.)

noun:

• winning hand with at least one terminal tile in each set and no honor tiles - Mahjong term

noun / ~する noun:

• ignoring a text message by leaving it unopened and marked as "unread" (in the chat application LINE) - colloquialism ➜ スルー

noun:

• drunken driving; driving while intoxicated; drinking and driving

noun:

• every single word and phrase; word by word - four character idiom

noun:

• silly questions and silly answers; a silly dialogue - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• inflection of words (e.g. declension of nouns and conjugation of verbs) - Linguistics term

noun:

• mineral spring; spring containing many minerals and gas (esp. a cold spring) ➜ 冷泉

noun:

• China and the Soviet Union ➜ ソ連【ソれん】

prefix:

• Sino-Soviet; Soviet-Chinese ➜ 中ソ国境紛争【ちゅうソこっきょうふんそう】

noun:

• Japan's Three Famous Mountains (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Tate and Mt. Haku) ➜ 三名山

noun:

• Japan's Three Famous Mountains (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Tate and Mt. Haku) - abbreviation ➜ 日本三名山

noun:

• Japan's Three Holy Mountains (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Tate and Mt. Haku)

noun:

• Japan's Three Holy Mountains (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Tate and Mt. Haku) - abbreviation ➜ 日本三霊山【にほんさんれいざん】

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to wait and see; to sit on the fence; to be noncommittal ➜ 日和見

noun:

• correspondence notebook (e.g. between teacher and parents); contact notebook; communication notebook

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to wash one's face and hands
• to go to the toilet

godan ~る verb:

• to hit and break open; to crush; to smash - colloquialism

noun:

• three greatest teas of Japan (Uji-cha, Sayama-cha and Shizuoka-cha)

noun:

• public lodging house; simple lodging (including pensions, private lodging and capsule hotels)

noun:

• public lodging house; simple lodging (including pensions, private lodging and capsule hotels)

noun:

• public lodging house; simple lodging (including pensions, private lodging and capsule hotels) - abbreviation ➜ 簡易宿所

noun:

• floor
• stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player)
• dining platform built across a river