noun:

• bamboo stick used to strike meditators into greater wakefulness (in Zen Buddhism) - Buddhism term
• striking someone's wrist with one's index and middle finger - esp. しっぺ - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• off topic (e.g. in a web forum) - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ スレッド・スレ違い

noun:

• fraction (i.e. in distillation); cut

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to settle (in a place); to settle down

expression / noun:

• critical hit (esp. in RPGs)

noun:

• Mahesvara (Shiva in the Buddhist pantheon) - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 大自在天

noun:

• court ladies' residence (in the inner Heian Palace) ➜ 五舎

noun:

• bathing (in a Zen Temple) - Buddhism term

noun:

• roleplay (e.g. in computer RPG games)

pronoun:

• you (primarily used by men in letters to their equals or inferiors) - polite language

noun:

• Trimma halonevum (species of goby found in Papua New Guinea); sparsely-spotted pygmy-goby

noun:

• Japanese catshark (Apristurus japonicus, found in Chiba Prefecture and the East China Sea)

noun:

• cavity (in old root vegetables, tofu, metal casting, etc.); pore; hollow; bubble; blowhole

~の noun:

• porous; pithy; spongy

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to make a mistake (e.g. in choosing one's melds) - colloquialism - Mahjong term ➜ 裏目【うらめ】

noun:

• tax not included (in price); tax separate ➜ 税込み【ぜいこみ】

noun:

• (in China) 11th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. C) ➜ 十二律
• ninth month of the lunar calendar

noun:

• halo (esp. in Christian art); nimbus ➜ 頭光

noun:

• buildings on the east and west side of the southern pond (in traditional palatial-style architecture) ➜ 寝殿造り

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to forcefully open up a hole (in a wall, etc.)
• to speak frankly, holding nothing back ➜ 打ち明ける【うちあける】
• to throw out (everything inside)

noun:

• gnomonic projection (in mapping)

noun:

• tick (esp. in share trading)
• -tic - colloquialism ➜ チック

noun:

• big moment (e.g. performance, in the spotlight); gala occasion; (on the) world stage ➜ 晴れ舞台

noun:

• Rig Veda (collection of hymns in Vedic Sanskrit)

expression / noun:

• the Fall of Man (in Christian theology); the Fall

noun:

• Megachasma (sole genus of the rare deep water megamouth shark in the family Megachasmidae)