noun:

• pure double chow; winning hand containing two identical chows (i.e. same numbers and same suit) - Mahjong term ➜ 一盃口【イーペーコー】

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to drive into (e.g. a nail into a board); to hit into (e.g. a home run into the stands)
• to throw into (e.g. jail)
• to drum into (someone) (an idea, skill, etc.); to hammer into; to drill into

noun:

• separates; things forming units by themselves (esp. women's outer garments, e.g. skirt and jumper) ➜ コーディネート
• two-piece bathing suit

noun:

• infinitesimal calculus; (differential and integral) calculus - Mathematics term

noun:

• Kagutsuchi; fire deity who burned to death his mother Izanami during childbirth (and was therefore beheaded by his father Izanagi) ➜ 伊弉冉尊・伊弉諾尊・軻遇突智・火結神・火之夜芸速男神

noun:

• manga cafe; coffee shop with a manga library (usu. has Internet facilities and charges by the hour) ➜ 漫画

noun:

• Shonan train; medium-distance train on the eastern Tokaido Main Line (coloured green and orange) - colloquialism

noun / ~する noun:

• pair; couple (husband and wife) - archaism

noun:

• friend; comrade - archaism

noun:

• Kagutsuchi; fire deity who burned to death his mother Izanami during childbirth (and was therefore beheaded by his father Izanagi) ➜ 迦具土神

noun:

• Kagutsuchi; fire deity who burned to death his mother Izanami during childbirth (and was therefore beheaded by his father Izanagi) ➜ 迦具土神

noun:

• Twenty-Five Histories; authoritative collection of twenty-five Chinese historical books (the Twenty-Four Histories and the New History of Yuan) ➜ 二十四史

noun:

• Vaishya; Vaisya (member of India's merchant-and-farmer caste)

noun:

• sunken kotatsu; low table over a hole in the floor (may have a heat source underneath and a hanging quilt to retain warmth) ➜ 炬燵

noun:

• Kagutsuchi; fire deity who burned to death his mother Izanami during childbirth (and was therefore beheaded by his father Izanagi) ➜ 迦具土神

noun:

• jitte; short truncheon with a hook made of metal or wood (used by policemen and private thief-takers in Edo Japan)

noun:

• Griffiths' pygmy-goby (Trimma griffithsi, found in the Indo-West Pacific); princess pygmy goby (Trimma marinae, found in Japan, New Guinea and Palau)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to stop an inside seam rolling about; to press open a seam (and open the left and right sides out)

noun:

• Reaganomics; economic policies of Ronald Reagan (i.e. reduction of taxes, spending, and market regulation)

noun:

• primary nursing care; nursing care level (with number between 1 and 5 based on assessed care needs) ➜ 要介護度・要介護認定

noun:

• Edo miso; type of miso produced in the Tokyo area since the Edo period (usu. low-salt and made with rice koji) ➜ 味噌

noun:

• statute of limitations; lapse of rights after a period of time; prescription (including acquisitive and extinctive prescription)
• becoming invalid or void after a set time
• ageing; aging - Chemistry term ➜ 時効硬化

noun / ~の noun:

• pons (pontes); pons Varolii; pontine; part of the brain stem (links the medulla oblongata and cerebellum with the midbrain)

expression / noun / ~の noun:

• (something) not coming together (as one had hoped or expected); unfortunate turn of events; unexpected turn; (a) crossbill's beak (which has differently shaped upper and lower parts) [literal] - often as ～の食い違い (with the same meaning) - idiom ➜ 交喙

~と adverb / ~たる adjective:

• drearily; with desolation; with loneliness (esp. the rain and wind)

noun:

• cutover; cut-over; starting new (IT) equipment; transferring from the old to a new (hardware and/or software) system - IT term