noun / suffix noun:

• storey; story; floor

noun:

• stairs ➜ 階【きざはし】

noun / suffix noun:

• stage (in chronostratigraphy)

counter:

• counter for storeys and floors of a building

noun / ~の noun:

• expert; professional; master; connoisseur Antonym: 素人【しろうと】
• woman in the nightlife business; demimondaine; geisha and prostitutes ➜ 素人

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• the other day; some time ago; recently

expression:

• prior to; in advance of ［さきだって］ ➜ 先立つ【さきだつ】

noun:

• reward; compensation; repayment; something done or given in return
• collateral; security
• turning to look behind

suffix noun:

• hut; house

noun:

• (in the ancient Chinese army) one day's march (approx. 12.2 km) - archaism

adjectival noun:

• rich (in flavor, color, smell, etc.); thick; dense; strong Antonym: 淡泊
• very likely; highly possible
• passionate; hot

noun:

• portable shrine (carried in festivals) - esp. 神輿 ➜ お神輿
• palanquin ［みこし］ - esp. 御輿 - honorific language ➜ 輿
• buttocks; lower back; waist; hips ［みこし］ - esp. sitting down, getting up, etc. - usually written using kana alone ➜ みこしを据える【みこしをすえる】・腰

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• utterance; speaking; vocalization; vocalisation; enunciation; pronouncing
• leading a group of people (in cheering, singing, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• coming and going; keeping in touch; visiting each other
• street traffic; highway

noun:

• reference; comparison; example
• inquiry; enquiry
• witness; being involved in a court case; deal

noun:

• interval; space; interstice; threshold
• valley; gorge; ravine
• loophole (in a wall); crenel; eyelet

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• in drops; dripping; trickling; streaming; flowing - onomatopoeia
• gently (sloping) - onomatopoeia
• sluggishly; endlessly; lengthily - onomatopoeia
• leisurely; idly; slowly; slovenly - onomatopoeia

noun:

• tempura; deep-fried fish and vegetables in a light batter - From Portuguese "tempero, temporas"

noun:

• three-legged race - four character idiom
• cooperation with singleness of purpose (e.g. between companies); operating in tandem

conjunction / expression:

• to make matters worse; besides; what's more; in addition; on top of that

noun:

• jump; plunge; dive

noun / ~の noun:

• appearing without an appointment; bursting in; arriving unannounced; cropping up suddenly

noun:

• ritual prayer; invocation of the gods participating in a rite - Shintō term
• congratulatory address ［しゅくし］ ➜ 祝辞【しゅくじ】

noun / ~する noun:

• cast; mold; mould; casting; molding; moulding; compacting (e.g. in metallurgy) - esp. 成型
• forming; shaping; fashioning - esp. 成形

noun:

• bill; account
• very successful amateur wrestler, allowed to start professional career in makushita division - Sumo term

noun:

• sewamono (in kabuki, etc., a domestic drama about ordinary people, esp. of the Edo period)

adverb / ~の noun:

• reasonably; fairly; all right; moderate - onomatopoeia

adverb:

• hurriedly; in a rush; having barely finished - in the form もそこそこに - onomatopoeia

suffix:

• approximately; about; or so

noun:

• New Wave (esp. in cinema) - From French "Nouvelle Vague"

noun:

• former emperor (or his empress, imperial princesses, etc.) - honorific language
• posthumous Buddhist name containing the character "in" ➜ 院

noun / ~する noun:

• going about immersed or absorbed; pacing back and forth meditatively; being deep in thought

adverb:

• anyhow; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case; be that as it may