noun:

• inside of a castle
• area surrounded by castle walls

noun:

• area struck (by some disaster); location of a disaster

noun / ~する noun:

• publishing part by part (e.g. in a magazine)

noun:

• buying a replacement; replacing by buying something new

~と adverb / adverb:

• rustling sound - onomatopoeia

noun:

• search (esp. a home search by the police) - obscure term - slang ➜ がさる

noun:

• continental island; island formed by separation from a continent

noun:

• calendar era; year numbering system used by a calendar

noun:

• (at a) snail's pace; inch by (painful) inch - often adverbially as ～に... - idiom

adverb:

• finally; at last
• barely; narrowly; hardly; only just
• gradually; little by little; by degrees

expression:

• days and nights passing by quickly; months and years flying by; Time flies - four character idiom

noun:

• servant (esp. a samurai's attendant)
• chivalrous man (c. Edo period)
• cubed tofu (often served cold) - abbreviation ➜ 奴豆腐
• kite shaped like a footman - abbreviation ➜ 奴凧
• Edo-period hairstyle worn by samurai's attendants - abbreviation ➜ 奴頭
• enslavement (of a woman; Edo-period punishment for her own or her husband's crime)

pronoun:

• he; she; him; her - archaism - derogatory term

noun:

• echo; reverberation
• sound (esp. the distinctive sound of an object or activity, e.g. rain, gun, gallop, drum); noise
• quality of a sound (e.g. a fine phrase, clear voice, resonant bell); feeling of a sound; emotion or feeling inspired by something heard or read

noun:

• New Year's gift (usu. money given to a child by relatives and visitors) ➜ 年玉

noun:

• (Russell) snowplow; track-clearing vehicle - abbreviation ➜ ラッセル車
• carving a trail through deep snow (by foot when mountaineering)

noun:

• blow received by a bystander; getting dragged in to somebody else's fight

noun:

• dried sardines (held together by a bamboo skewer or string piercing the eye sockets)

noun:

• bottle gourd
• ensign bearing a cluster of gourds (used by Toyotomi Hideyoshi)

noun:

• Cheki; brand of small instant cameras made by Fujifilm

interjection:

• check it out; take a look - From English "check it"

noun:

• allowance paid by the Sumo Association to a coach for each wrestler in his stable - Sumo term

noun:

• (of a website) being delisted or censored by the Google search engine

noun:

• robe worn by military officials with a round collar, unstitched open sides and no ran ➜ 襴

noun / ~する noun:

• preparing a rice field for planting by flooding it and tilling the soil

noun:

• moon, snow and flowers; beauty of the four seasons (from a poem by Bai Juyi) ➜ 雪月花

noun:

• turning a concealed pung into an open kong by calling another player's discard - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 槓

noun:

• new release of a song by the original artist or composer - From English "self cover"