noun:

• cross-cut sawtooth oak charcoal (resembling chrysanthemum flowers, and used in tea ceremonies)

noun:

• TeX; typesetting system designed and mostly written by Donald Knuth - IT term

noun:

• short, padded coat that covers someone and a baby on their back - abbreviation ➜ ねんねこ半纏

noun / ~する noun:

• sleeping; sleep - orig. meaning - children's language

noun:

• skewered sweet rice cakes served with soy sauce and miso

noun:

• post-retirement return to one's home town and carrying out agricultural pursuits

noun:

• one's second son ➜ 次男【じなん】
• man between 17 and 20 years old (ritsuryo system) - archaism ➜ 少丁

noun / ~する noun:

• prostration; placing knees, hands and forehead on the ground to show utmost respect - Buddhism term ➜ 五体投地【ごたいとうち】

noun:

• Wotan (god in German and Anglo-Saxon mythology); Wodan ➜ オーディン

noun:

• yu; free reed wind instrument used in ancient China and Nara period Japan

expression:

• there's but a fine line between genius and insanity - proverb

expression:

• life has its ups and downs; he who falls today may rise tomorrow - proverb

noun:

• treating a metal surface to make it look worn and aged; antique finish

noun / suffix noun / ~の noun:

• gold (Au); golden (color); gold (medal, cup)

~の noun / noun:

• valuable; of highest value

noun:

• money; gold coin
• Friday - abbreviation ➜ 金曜
• metal (fourth of the five elements) ➜ 五行
• Jin (dynasty of China; 1115-1234 CE)

noun / suffix noun:

• gold general - abbreviation - Shōgi term ➜ 金将

noun:

• testicles - abbreviation - colloquialism ➜ 金玉【きんたま】

suffix / counter:

• karat; carat

noun:

• west wind in the early spring (traditionally on the night of the 20th day of the second month of the lunar calendar); wind that blows seashells ashore [literal]

noun:

• vital part (of the body); tender spot; weak point; vitals
• key point; essential point; crux (of a problem); heart (of a matter)
• male crotch (as a target in fighting) - colloquialism ➜ 金的

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• flapping (of a flag, fan, etc.); fluttering; whack-whack (e.g. beating dust out of a rug); whap-whap - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• pitter-patter (of footsteps) - onomatopoeia
• quickly (making progress); in quick succession - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• end of work day
• end of school term; end of school year

expression / noun:

• the way of the world; the lay of the land; the inescapable circumstances (of life); (just) the way things are ➜ 浮世

noun:

• voice
• singing (of a bird); chirping (of an insect); hoot
• voice; opinion (as expressed in words); view; wish; attitude; will
• sound
• sense (of something's arrival); feeling - usu. as ～の声を聞く
• voice; voiced sound - Linguistics term

noun:

• large cut (e.g. of meat) ［大切り・大切］
• last piece of the day's programme; last act of a play; comic dialogue as the last item in vaudeville, music hall, etc.

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

noun:

• son (of others); boy; young master - honorific language ➜ 坊ちゃん【ぼっちゃん】
• green young man from a well-to-do family; young man innocent of the ways of the world ➜ 坊ちゃん【ぼっちゃん】

noun:

• state of a country (population, resources, etc.); condition of a country; strength of a country

noun:

• nape of the neck; back of the neck; scruff of the neck

noun:

• degree of perfection; level of completion; degree of completion