noun:

• mythical carp with the head of a lion and the body of a fish (auspicious protectors of well-being)

noun:

• gas range; gas burner; gas ring; hot plate; gas cooker; gas cooktop; esp. table-top unit with two or more burners and a fish oven - From English "gas table" ➜ ガス台

expression / noun / ~する noun:

• drinking like a fish and eat like a horse; eating mountains of food and drink oceans of liquor - four character idiom

adjective:

• smelling of fish; fishy; smelling of blood; bloody
• degenerate (of a monk); depraved; corrupt; fallen
• worldly; mundane; secular; common; ordinary
• fishy; suspicious; questionable

noun:

• charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) fish stay on the bottom of water and flying wild geese fall from the sky in shame [literal] - four character idiom

expression / noun:

• charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) fish stay on the bottom of water and flying wild geese fall from the sky in shame ➜ 閉月羞花・沈魚落雁

noun:

• silver white croaker (Pennahia argentata); silver croaker; white croaker ➜ 白口【しろぐち】
• Nibe croaker (Nibea mitsukurii) ➜ 鮸【にべ】
• vertical-striped cardinalfish (Apogon lineatus); Indian perch; coral fish ➜ 天竺鯛【てんじくだい】

noun:

• fish and chips

expression:

• to be unable to accomplish something because one has chosen the wrong method; to ask for the impossible; to look for fish by climbing a tree [literal] - from Mencius - proverb

expression:

• to be unable to accomplish something because one has chosen the wrong method; to ask for the impossible; to look for fish by climbing a tree (Mencius) [literal] - variant of 木に縁りて... - proverb ➜ 木に縁りて魚を求む【きによりてうおをもとむ】

noun:

• homely woman (esp. one with a small low nose, high flat forehead, and bulging cheeks); plain woman - derogatory term ➜ お多福・ひょっとこ
• soba in soup with slices of boiled fish paste, shiitake mushrooms, greens, seaweed, etc. - abbreviation ➜ お亀蕎麦

noun:

• common freshwater goby (Gymnogobius urotaenia)
• floating goby (Gymnogobius petschiliensis) ➜ 墨浮鮴
• Gymnogobius opperiens (fish) ➜ 縞浮鮴
• isaza goby (Gymnogobius isaza) ➜ イサザ

noun / suffix noun:

• lattice - Mathematics term

noun / suffix noun / counter:

• counter for large bundles (e.g. 10 sheafs of rice, 200 sheets of calligraphy paper, 20 whistling arrows, 100 fish)
• handbreadth (unit for measuring the length of arrows)

noun:

• slicing a fish down its back
• slit in the back of a garment
• split in a piece of lumber (to prevent splitting when drying)

noun:

• orca (Orcinus orca); killer whale; grampus
• mythical carp with the head of a lion and the body of a fish (auspicious protectors of well-being) ［しゃち］ - abbreviation ➜ 鯱【しゃちほこ】

~の noun / noun:

• speckled with white; salt-and-pepper (pattern, fabric, etc.)

noun:

• marbling (of beef) ➜ 霜降り肉
• (of fish, chicken, shellfish, etc.) blanching by exposure to boiling and then icy water - abbreviation ➜ 霜降り作り
• formation of frost - orig. meaning

noun:

• impoverishment of fishermen because of a bumper catch; decline in fishermen's income caused by the sharply lower fish prices as a result of an overabundant catch - four character idiom

noun:

• thorn; spine; prickle
• splinter (esp. lodged in one's flesh); hard sharp item (esp. lodged in one's throat, e.g. fish bone)
• biting words

noun:

• mixture of ingredients (originally five)
• mixture of minced vegetables, fish, and meat, mixed in a starch (rice, noodles) - abbreviation ➜ 五目飯【ごもくめし】・五目鮨【ごもくずし】・五目そば【ごもくそば】
• gomoku (game); five in a row; go-bang - abbreviation ➜ 五目並べ

noun:

• salt pan (used for boiling seawater to make salt)
• cooking a fish inside a salt crust - abbreviation ➜ 塩釜焼き
• candy made with a wrapping of sweetened rice flour (looking like a salt crust)

noun / ~する noun:

• landing; unloading (e.g. a ship) ➜ 陸揚げ

noun:

• catch (of fish); takings ➜ 漁獲量
• sales (of a shop) ➜ 売上高

noun / ~する noun:

• defloration (e.g. of a geisha)
• preservation (of cut flowers, in ikebana)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to get into the swing of (one's work); to hit one's stride
• (for a fish or bird) to put on fat for the winter

noun:

• ritual music and dancing in shrines and temples
• rice dance; rice festival
• tofu (or fish, etc.) baked and coated with miso - abbreviation - Food term ➜ 田楽焼き
• turning something in the manner one would use to cook dengaku-doufu on both sides - abbreviation ➜ 田楽返し

counter:

• counter for ships (large boats)
• counter for half of a pair (e.g. half of a folding screen)
• counter for fish, birds, arrows, etc.

~と adverb / ~する noun:

• bursting with youth and energy (esp. young woman); vivaciously young; spunky; energetic - onomatopoeia

~と adverb:

• (fish) jumping around energetically (e.g. when caught in a net) - onomatopoeia

~の noun:

• bursting (e.g. seams); tight - onomatopoeia

~と adverb:

• splattering (e.g. cooking oil) - onomatopoeia