noun:

• over-demanding parents; parents who makes selfish and unreasonable demands on behalf of their child - From English "monster parents" ➜ モンスターペアレント

noun:

• group of persons working at the imperial court (Yamato period)
• various craftsmen and artisans under the ritsuryo system

noun:

• Tilapia (large genus of cichlid fish in the Cichlidae family endemic to Africa and the Middle East)

noun:

• luo han guo (Siraitia grosvenorii); herbaceous perennial vine native to China and Thailand; fruit of the Siraita grosvenorii

expression / noun:

• lost twenty years [literal]
• period of economic stagnation in Japan that began ca. 1991 and not over in the 2010s

noun:

• cooked and dry packed rice (modern version of hoshii rice); processed quick-cooking rice ➜ 糒

noun:

• cooked and dry packed rice (modern version of hoshii rice); processed quick-cooking rice ➜ 糒

noun / ~する noun:

• leaving (e.g. work at end of day); withdrawal (e.g. from a noble's or superior's presence); exit (e.g. from a market)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to sing at the top of one's voice; to belt out a song
• to express one's feelings fully in a poem; to praise in poetry

noun:

• matter of life or death; life-and-death problem - four character idiom

noun:

• school year calendar; calendar of school events and dates

noun:

• soup with fried tofu, shiitake mushrooms, carrots, sweet potatoes and daikon flavored with salt or soy sauce and thickened with potato starch ➜ 濃餅

noun:

• (a) grain; (a) drop; (a) bead

adverb / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• a little; partially; somewhat; slightly; semi-; -ish; on the ... side; a short time; a while

adjectival noun / noun:

• standing on formality; in a reserved manner; treating a friend as a stranger; unduly distant; formal - four character idiom

noun:

• batting eye; ability to judge whether a pitch will be called a ball or a strike - Baseball term

noun / ~する noun:

• forming a kong by adding a tile drawn from the wall to a declared pung - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 槓

adjective:

• terrible; dreadful
• amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); wonderful; terrific
• to a great extent; vast (in numbers)

noun:

• proportional representation system in which votes are cast for a publicly available list of party members or for individual members of that list

noun:

• Wu; region in China, south of the lower Yangtze
• Wu; Southern Wu; kingdom in China during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms era (902-937)
• Wu; Eastern Wu; Sun Wu; kingdom in China during the Three Kingdoms era (222-280) ➜ 三国【さんごく】
• Wu; kingdom in China during the Spring and Autumn era (11th c. - 473 BCE)

expression / noun:

• hard work gone unnoticed; thankless task; a dance under a veranda [literal] - idiom
• off-stage dance that used to be performed on the 22th of the 2nd month in the lunar calendar in Osaka's Tennouji - orig. meaning

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to point
• to nominate; to select someone; to specify some person
• to identify; to indicate; to point out
• to play (a game of shogi); to move (a piece) - Shōgi term
• to extend one's arm straight ahead (in dance) ➜ 差す

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to make fun of; to look down on; to make light of
• to take a tea break; to rest

noun:

• (contemporary) customs and behavior; the picture of people's life in the contemporary world - four character idiom

noun:

• any butterfly of family Pieridae (incl. the white butterflies and the sulfur butterflies)