noun:

• millet or rice cake, roasted and hardened with starch syrup and sugar (sometimes including peanuts, etc.)

noun:

• Aikido technique, wherein the opponent is brought down by twisting his or her arm away from the body - Martial Arts term

expression / adjective:

• difficult to get into
• not be easily influenced into joining some mood or activity Antonym: ノリが良い【ノリがよい】

noun:

• Lamna (genus of mackerel sharks or white sharks with two living species in the family Lamnidae)

noun:

• holiday ➜ 紋日
• day on which prostitutes had to receive clients (or pay their own fee to avoid doing so) - archaism

noun:

• Japanese traditional architectural style where the main entrance is on one or both of the gabled sides ➜ 平入り

noun:

• bridle made from knotted rope or leather - obsolete term
• multi-coloured rope ceremonial garland, placed on cattle, large rocks, etc.

noun:

• ukiyo-e print produced with various shades of indigo (and sometimes small amounts of vermilion or yellow) ➜ 藍摺

noun / ~する noun:

• delivery to the wrong house or person (email, postal items, etc.); false notification; mistaken notification; notifying somebody incorrectly

noun:

• way of writing; manner of writing
• penmanship (esp. used in old textbooks); calligraphy
• format (e.g. of a report)
• stroke order of a character

noun:

• presence (of a nobleman, the emperor, etc.) ➜ おまえ
• outrider (person riding horseback in the lead position of a cavalcade) ➜ 前駆

noun / suffix noun:

• My Lord; My Lady

noun:

• hourglass figure; having a good-looking, full-bodied figure (of a woman); big breasts and buttocks, tight waist - slang

expression:

• if you visit the toilet while travelling, you will get behind your fellow travelers; one chou for a piss, one ri for a shit [literal] - archaism - proverb ➜ 里【り】・町

godan ~む verb:

• to conceive; to become pregnant

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to get filled with (e.g. sails filled with wind); to be swollen with
• to contain (a contradiction, danger, etc.); to carry (a problem, consequences, etc.); to involve (e.g. risk)

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to be swollen and ripe (of a plant ear, head, sprout, etc.)

expression / noun:

• completely empty (of a residence, etc.); vacant; deserted ➜ 蛻【もぬけ】
• body from which the soul has left; corpse
• shed skin (of a snake, insect, etc.) - orig. meaning

noun:

• Japanese chimera; mythical creature with a monkey's head, tanuki's body, tiger's limbs, and a snake tail
• White's thrush (Zoothera dauma) ➜ 虎鶫
• man of mystery; enigma

noun:

• navel; belly button
• protrusion or depression in the middle of an object ［へそ・ヘソ］
• center; centre; most important part; main point

~と adverb:

• chattering (teeth) - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun:

• (frozen, worried) stiff - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• rigid (personality, thinking, etc.); inflexible; overly serious - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~の noun:

• voracious (e.g. work, study); without slack or pause - onomatopoeia

noun:

• cervicobrachial syndrome; indicates pain, swelling, weakness and/or numbness in the neck/shoulder region, used when specific diagnosis is not known

noun:

• crayfish (esp. Japanese crayfish, Cambaroides japonicus or red swamp crayfish, Procambarus clarkii); crawfish ➜ ニホンザリガニ・アメリカザリガニ

noun:

• trailer (vehicle)
• semi-trailer truck
• (film or video game) trailer

noun:

• debt cancellation order issued by the Emperor or the Shogun (during the Muromachi and Kamakura periods) - archaism

noun:

• Lamnidae; family of large, fast-swimming sharks known as mackerel sharks or white sharks

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to conceal one's true nature or feelings; to feign friendliness; to play the hypocrite - idiom ➜ 猫をかぶる【ねこをかぶる】

noun:

• variety meat; offal; scrap meat ➜ くず肉【くずにく】
• meat other than pork, beef or poultry (e.g. horsemeat, etc.)