noun:

• cup of sake used to drink to the establishment of a partnership, commitment to marriage, etc.; nuptial cup of sake

noun:

• figure; design
• twill weave; pattern of diagonal stripes ［綾］
• style (of writing); figure (of speech)
• design; plot; plan
• minor market fluctuation; technical correction
• cat's cradle - abbreviation ➜ 綾取り【あやとり】
• lease rod (in a loom) - abbreviation ➜ 綾竹

noun:

• Yemen monitor (Varanus yemenensis, species of carnivorous monitor lizard found at the base of the Tihama mountains along the western coast of Yemen)

noun:

• near one's knee
• under the protection of (e.g. one's parents); under the care of
• territory of a powerful person ［ひざもと］ ➜ お膝元
• address used after the names of one's parents, grandparents, etc. in a letter ［しっか］

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• middle of a month; second third of a month; 11th to 20th day of a month

adverb:

• sound of a small wave hitting the shore; sound of a whip; sound of a slap - onomatopoeia

noun:

• late autumn (fall) windstorm in the countryside; typhoon, esp. one that blows from the 210th to the 220th day of the year ➜ 二百十日・二百二十日・台風
• name of the 28th roll of the Genji monogatari

noun:

• notification of separation from family register; notification of creation of a new family register

noun:

• group of languages (i.e. the Romance languages, considered as a subset of the Italic languages)
• group of words

noun:

• son (of others); boy; young master - honorific language
• green young man from a well-to-do family; young man innocent of the ways of the world

adverb:

• like that (used for something or someone distant from both speaker and listener); so ➜ 斯う・然う・如何【どう】

adjective:

• fresh and youthful; lively; vibrant; vivacious; juicy (e.g. fruit)

noun:

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

noun:

• rice gruel containing vegetables, fish, etc., and seasoned with miso or soy sauce ➜ おじや

noun / ~する noun:

• rise and fall (e.g. prices); fluctuation

noun:

• difference (rank, grade, quality, etc.); variation

noun / ~する noun:

• ground (elec)
• contact patch (between car tyre and road)
• landing (an aeroplane, airplane)

noun:

• swidden; land made arable by slash-and-burn agriculture

adverb:

• rapidly (e.g. progress, moving forward); growing visibly; quickly; steadily; by leaps and bounds - onomatopoeia

noun:

• Nozomi; fastest Tōkaidō and Sanyō-line Shinkansen train service (stopping only at largest stations) ➜ こだま・ひかり

noun:

• topcoat; light overcoat for use in spring and autumn - From English "spring coat"

noun / ~する noun:

• spiritual peace and enlightenment; keeping an unperturbed mind through faith - four character idiom

noun:

• it is hard to keep one's worldly desires and passions in check - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun:

• loach or eel dipped and broiled in soy-based sauce

noun / ~する noun:

• toil and moil; working assiduously for; tireless hard work; painstaking labor (labour) - four character idiom

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to accept an object and hold it reverently over one's head