noun:

• chimney; smokestack; funnel (of a ship); stovepipe
• carrying a passenger without turning on the taximeter - slang

noun / ~する noun:

• lifting a person high (in celebration); tossing someone into the air; carrying someone on shoulders

noun:

• administrative scrivener; notary public; paralegal qualified to prepare legal documents on administrative matters, e.g. immigration

noun:

• Gion Festival (in Kyoto during the month of July, with high point on the 17th)

noun:

• obligatory gift chocolate; chocolate given by women to male acquaintances on Valentine's day ➜ 本命チョコ

expression / noun / ~する noun:

• being held in suspense; being on edge; scared stiff; one's testicles going up and down [literal] - idiom - male language ➜ 上がったり下がったり【あがったりさがったり】

noun:

• teppan-yaki (Japanese cooking prepared on a hot steel plate in the center of the table)

noun / ~する noun:

• cutting in half
• painting or calligraphy done on a half-sized piece of paper - esp. 半折

noun:

• word of respect added to the addressee's name on a letter
• under the desk

interjection:

• not yet!; cry by the referee when one wrestler is on the attack - Sumo term

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• remaining; left-over

noun:

• cramschool (for boys and girls who wish to go on to the next stage of education)

ichidan verb:

• to stay on (e.g. at one's friends house); to remain in the same neighborhood

noun:

• zaru soba (soba served on a bamboo draining basket with dipping sauce)

noun:

• kanji used to represent syllables, based on their "kun" readings (prior to the advent of kana) ➜ 音仮名【おんがな】

noun:

• message butting in (to a conversation between two other people on a BBS, etc.) - slang

noun:

• school centred on preparing students to get into university ➜ 進学
• high-level school a person has entered

noun:

• summer purification rites (held at shrines on the last day of the 6th lunar month) ➜ 夏越しの祓

noun:

• Festival of Emperor Jimmu (formerly held annually on April 3rd, the supposed day of his death)

interjection:

• beep; honk (car horn); buzz (buzzer); boo (wrong answer, like buzzer on quiz shows) - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• document screening; paper screening; narrowing down a field of applicants based on resumes, written applications, etc.

noun:

• points paid and received at the end of a game of mahjong based on position (rank) - Mahjong term

expression:

• unable to take one's eyes off of something; having to keep a watchful eye on

noun / ~する noun:

• leaving a park, garden, zoo, etc.
• leaving kindergarten (e.g. end of day, on completion, expulsion)

noun:

• priest - used at certain shrines, e.g. Ise, Kamo - Shintō term
• member of one of the four administrative ranks in the ritsuryo system - archaism ➜ 四等官
• government official in charge of a town, esp. in Heian Kyoto - archaism
• prominent member of a town - archaism
• river boatman; captain of a riverboat
• (medieval) harbor manager - archaism
• bandit leader; head of a gang of brigands - archaism

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to load (with goods, cargo); to put on board; to stow aboard