noun:

• blowing (e.g. of the wind)

noun / suffix noun:

• playing (a wind instrument); player (e.g. clarinet)

noun:

• (pair of) bellows ➜ 吹子
• casting; founding; melting

noun:

• approx. 80% of the way up a mountainside
• view of a light green mountain; mountain that appears green from afar

expression / noun:

• the Four Freedoms (as defined by Franklin D. Roosevelt: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear)

noun:

• passing a bone fragment from one pair of chopsticks to another while placing the remains of the deceased in a funerary urn; two people picking up the same bone fragment with chopsticks at the same time
• passing food from one pair of chopsticks to another (a breach of etiquette); two people picking up the same piece of food with chopsticks at the same time ➜ 拾い箸

adjectival noun / ~の noun / noun:

• rare; uncommon; unusual ［レア・レアー］
• rare; lightly cooked ［レア・レアー］

noun:

• rhea (bird of family Rheidae)
• Rhea (Greek goddess)
• Rhea (moon of Saturn) ［レア］ - Astronomy term

expression:

• in the middle of something; busy with something
• in commotion as a result of something untoward happening
• currently importing or capturing data

noun:

• Odontaspididae; family of four species in two genera of lamniform sand sharks, also known as sand tiger sharks or ragged tooth sharks

noun:

• Osaka Conference; meeting held by the leaders of the Meiji Restoration in Osaka to discuss the formation of a representative assembly (January-February, 1875)

noun:

• ridge-tailed monitor (Varanus acanthurus, species of monitor lizard found throughout the arid northern regions of Australia); spiny-tailed monitor

noun / ~する noun:

• suspension; interruption; stoppage; ban; standstill; halt; hang-up; deadlock; stalemate; abeyance - usu. ていし
• suspension of music, dance, etc. as a sign of mourning for a prominent person ［ちょうじ］

noun:

• sickle handle
• goby minnow (Pseudogobio esocinus)
• Oriental photinia (species of shrub, Photinia villosa) ➜ 牛殺し
• Asiatic dayflower (Commelina communis) ➜ 露草
• Joseph's-coat (species of amaranth, Amaranthus tricolor) ➜ 葉鶏頭

noun:

• Caribbean reef shark (Carcharhinus perezii, species of requiem shark found in the tropical waters of the western Atlantic Ocean from Florida to Brazil) ➜ カリビアンリーフシャーク

noun:

• whitefin hammerhead (Sphyrna couardi, species of hammerhead shark found in the West African tropics of the eastern Atlantic from Senegal to Congo)

noun:

• Buddhist service centred around the Lotus Sutra held over four days in Shiga Prefecture, starting from the 24th day of the second month of the lunisolar calendar

noun:

• below; down; under; younger (e.g. daughter)
• bottom
• beneath; underneath
• just after; right after - as 下から, 下より, etc.

noun / ~の noun:

• inferiority; one's inferior (i.e. one's junior)

noun:

• trade-in ➜ 下取り

prefix noun:

• preliminary; preparatory ➜ 下準備

noun / ~する noun:

• assignment (of a person to somewhere); attachment (of a person to another unit, organization, etc.)

noun:

• focus (of a lens); focal point - From Dutch "brandpunt"
• point (of a discussion, e.g. on-point, off-point)

noun:

• first 17-syllable verse of a renga ➜ 揚げ句【あげく】
• haiku
• first five-syllable line of a tanka

noun:

• mouth; lips
• shape of the mouth
• near an entrance; vicinity of an entrance

noun:

• tortoiseshell (of the hawksbill turtle); bekko ➜ 玳瑁
• tortoiseshell (esp. of the Chinese soft-shelled turtle) - in Chinese medicine ➜ 鼈

noun:

• locked up feeling; cooped up feeling; feeling of entrapment; feeling of hopelessness; being in a bind

noun:

• first day of the month - archaism
• first ten days of the lunar month

noun:

• Ministry of Popular Affairs (1869-1871) ［みんぶしょう］
• Ministry of Popular Affairs (under the ritsuryo system) ➜ 律令制

noun:

• family registry (of the district) (Edo period); population registry; records of an Edo period census ➜ 戸籍簿

expression / noun:

• rain falling on cherry blossoms; rain at the time of the blossoming of cherry trees