noun:

• common talk; worldly conversation

noun:

• candy fashioned in human and animal forms

noun:

• black silk or paper triangle worn over the forehead (usu. worn by children)

noun / ~する noun:

• nearing the enemy
• coming into contact with the enemy

noun / ~する noun:

• parking on the streets; on-street parking - abbreviation ➜ 路上駐車

adverb:

• in its entirety; whole; wholly - Ōsaka dialect

noun / ~する noun:

• turning things around with a home run; turning the tables with a single successful attack (move) - four character idiom

noun:

• first bath of the New Year ➜ 初湯

expression:

• in a manner of speaking; as it were; so to speak; if you like; per se

noun:

• bicycle custom-fitted with an ornate, box-shaped body; art bike - abbreviation ➜ デコレーションチャリンコ

suffix noun:

• used after the name of someone who is an older sister figure - familiar language ➜ 兄【にい】

noun:

• used with various honorifics to mean (older) sister ➜ お姉さん

noun:

• outermost region of the castle ➜ 本丸・二の丸

expression:

• all for the best; what is right

noun:

• the Gospel according to Matthew (book of the Bible)

noun / ~する noun:

• ranking equal with; comparing favourably with; comparing favorably with

noun:

• (in) the shape of the character hachi (eight)

noun:

• east wind inclining towards the south

expression:

• in a bad temper; cranky; crabby

noun:

• the upper side

noun:

• Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe; CFE

noun:

• chart at the left

noun / ~する noun:

• informing with respect; announcing respectfully

noun:

• small vessel or bowl in which sake cups are rinsed ➜ 杯洗

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to get deeper in debt; to pile up debts

noun:

• rice crackers for feeding the deer (in Nara)