noun:

• red rice (beans and mochi) for auspicious occasions

noun:

• bring-your-own (e.g. food and drink); carry-on (e.g. luggage)

~と adverb / adverb / ~する noun:

• lightly rolling (of a small and round thing) - onomatopoeia
• pleasant, high-pitched sound (e.g. bell, young woman's laughter) - onomatopoeia
• changing frequently (e.g. conversation, plans); (occurring) in rapid succession (e.g. sumo wrestlers being defeated); fickly; in a fickle manner - onomatopoeia
• roly-poly - onomatopoeia

~と adverb / adverb:

• chirp chirp; sound of insects - onomatopoeia
• ribbit ribbit; croak croak; sound of frogs - onomatopoeia ➜ ケロケロ

noun:

• roller; lint roller; paint roller ［ころころ・コロコロ］ - onomatopoeia

noun:

• distinction (e.g. between right and wrong, public and private, etc.)

noun:

• Kshitigarbha (bodhisattva who looks over children, travellers and the underworld) (travelers); Ksitigarbha; Jizo - abbreviation

noun:

• dashi (Japanese soup stock made from fish and kelp)
• pretext; excuse; pretense (pretence); dupe; front man ［出し］

noun:

• the three powers of government (legislative, executive and judicial)

~の noun / noun / ~する noun:

• external (hard drive, etc.) - IT term

noun:

• upper grades of primary school (sixth, fifth, and sometimes fourth grades) ➜ 低学年・中学年

noun:

• system requirements (i.e. recommended hardware and software to run a package) - IT term

noun:

• lower grades of primary school (first, second, and sometimes third grades) ➜ 高学年・中学年

noun:

• general (civil engineering and construction) contractor

noun:

• roux (mixture of butter and flour used to make sauces); sauce made from such a mixture - From French
• (Japanese) curry powder; curry sauce made from this powder

noun:

• physical contact (between friends, mother and child, etc.); physical intimacy - From English "skinship"

noun:

• cutlet (usu. crumbed and fried) - abbreviation ➜ カツレツ

noun:

• nut (as in nut and bolt)
• natural unit of information content; nat

noun:

• firm-sided backpack made of leather, etc. (used by Japanese elementary schoolchildren, often red for girls and black for boys) - From Dutch "ransel"

noun:

• human emotions (joy, anger, pathos, and humor) (humour) - four character idiom

noun:

• the Four Heavenly Kings (Dhrtarastra, Virudhaka, Virupaksa, and Vaisravana) - Buddhism term
• the big four (i.e. four leaders in a given field)

noun:

• three branch Tokugawa families (Owari, Kii, and Mito) ➜ 三家【さんけ】
• big three; top three

noun:

• alliance (of the Six Kingdoms against the Qin dynasty, and of individual Kingdoms with the Qin dynasty) - four character idiom ➜ 合従・連衡
• (tactic of) making & breaking alliances (to benefit oneself as the occasion demands); resorting to alliances as a diplomatic expedient - four character idiom

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to sit down (and bask); to sit-in (in protest)

noun / ~の noun:

• critical (touch and go) situation; explosive situation - four character idiom

noun:

• tropics (of Cancer and Capricorn)
• regression line - Mathematics term

noun:

• box lunch (containing rice and 10-15 small portions of fish, meat, and vegetables) - abbreviation ➜ 幕の内弁当
• highest-ranking division - Sumo term ➜ 幕内
• intermission (between acts); interlude