noun / ~する noun:

• letter (e.g. of complaint); letter to the editor; letter from a reader
• contribution (to a newspaper, magazine, etc.) ➜ 投稿

noun:

• life-saving sword (a killing sword may be a sword of life depending on how it is used)

noun:

• bust (measurement)
• breasts; bosom
• upper half of the body (esp. statue or portrait); bust ➜ 上半身【じょうはんしん】・半身像【はんしんぞう】

noun:

• break (in the weather, esp. rain or snow); interval of clear weather
• lightheartedness

noun:

• futon or cloth attached to the kotatsu's frame; cover for kotatsu

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• fluttering (esp. of thick or heavy material) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• piece of dangling cloth, paper, metal, etc. - onomatopoeia

noun:

• hustler; entrepreneur; go-getter
• (skilled or professional) pool player; billiard player
• swindler; con man

noun / ~の noun:

• (so marvelous or horrible that it may be) the first and probably the last - four character idiom

noun:

• tank for holding excreta (often used for fertilizer) (fertiliser); night soil vat or reservoir

noun:

• pāramitā; perfection; perfection of Buddhist practices or attaining enlightenment ［はらみつ］ - Buddhism term ➜ 波羅蜜多
• jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• white dragon tile - Mahjong term - From Chinese
• shaved pubic area; person with little or no pubic hair - colloquialism - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• parallel marker (particle used to join two or more words, i.e. "to", "ya") - Linguistics term

noun:

• parallel marker (particle used to join two or more words, i.e. "to", "ya") - Linguistics term ➜ 並立助詞

noun:

• (metropolitan) prefecture (of Osaka and Kyoto)
• the centre or seat (of) (center)
• (government) office

prefix:

• august (in ref. to the emperor or the gods); imperial; divine - honorific language

noun:

• roasted mochi pieces (usu. flavoured with soy sauce, or sweetened with sugar, etc.)

noun:

• sea pen (any coelenterate of the family Pennatulidae or related families); sea feather

noun:

• Hemiscylliidae; family of tropical Indo-Pacific longtail carpet sharks or bamboo sharks

noun:

• government position (or office) not specified in the administrative code of the ritsuryo - archaism ➜ 令【りょう】・律令【りつりょう】

noun:

• kanji without kanbun assistance markings ➜ 訓点【くんてん】
• poetry, haiku, etc. without comments or corrections

adjectival noun:

• meaningless; incomprehensible

noun:

• all simples; winning hand containing no terminal tiles or honor tiles - abbreviation - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 断ヤオ九

noun:

• small amount of money (to buy sandals or cover travel expenses); small farewell gift

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to hold between; to grip with (from both sides); to nip; to catch (e.g. one's finger in a door)
• to put between; to sandwich between; to insert; to interpose; to interject
• to be on either side of (a road, table, etc.); to be across (a street, river, etc.); to have between each other

noun:

• warehouse style; house built like a kura, with the walls covered in mud ➜ 土蔵造り

noun / ~する noun:

• building a kura storehouse; someone who builds kura storehouses

noun:

• bulletin board; notice board; billboard; roadside sign; sign on a post, usu. wooden, esp. containing information about a sight, warning, congratulations, etc. ➜ 高札