noun:

• chips or shavings left after cutting wood or metal with a saw, etc.

expression:

• (it) goes without saying; needn't be said
• should rather be left unsaid

noun:

• water left in buckets on the roadside during the summer for travellers

noun:

• downstage left pillar (on a noh stage), by which the supporting actor introduces himself ➜ 脇【わき】
• doorjamb; jambe; jamb

noun:

• branches and leaves; foliage

noun / ~の noun:

• unimportant details; nonessentials; side issue; digression - esp. しよう ➜ 枝葉末節【しようまっせつ】

noun / ~の noun:

• side road; byroad
• digression (e.g. from argument)

noun:

• polygon; -gon ➜ 多角形【たかくけい】
• Japanese rectangular envelope (opening on the short side) - esp. かくけい

noun:

• round pillars each side of the wall behind a shumidan dais - Buddhism term ➜ 須弥壇

noun / ~する noun:

• complete cure; radical cure; complete recovery

noun:

• abandoned people (people left to fend for themselves after a war or natural disaster)

noun / ~する noun:

• agitating other players in a multiplayer or online game by rapidly moving one's avatar left and right - abbr. of シャア専用ゲルググのダンス - slang

noun:

• back; spine
• reverse; rear side
• height; stature
• ridge (of a mountain)

noun:

• map (or diagram, etc.) folded with a cover on each side - obscure term

noun:

• southern barbarians (formerly used by the Chinese to refer to non-ethnic Chinese to the south) - archaism - derogatory term
• South-East Asia - archaism
• Western Europe (esp. Spain and Portugal, their South-East Asian colonies, and their goods and people arriving in Japan via the colonies) - archaism ➜ 紅毛

prefix:

• exotic (esp. Western European or South-East Asian style)

noun:

• (in dance, puppetry, etc.) thrusting the right foot and right arm forward at the same time (or left foot and left arm) - usu.ナンバ
• food prepared using chili peppers or Welsh onions - abbreviation ➜ 南蛮煮【なんばんに】

noun / prefix noun:

• chicken bones (e.g. for soup); chicken carcass ➜ 鶏がら

noun:

• poor-quality coke (coal)

suffix:

• left-overs; remnants

noun:

• in calligraphy, a stroke going from upper right to lower left with a pointed tail

noun:

• Japan Revolutionary Communist League-National Committee; JRCL; Middle Core Faction [literal]; Japanese far-left revolutionary group

expression:

• better safe than sorry; one should err on the side of caution - proverb

noun:

• side dish served in order to encourage the consumption of alcohol (kaiseki cuisine) ➜ 懐石料理

expression:

• hopelessly inaccurate; not even remotely close; can't hit the side of a barn - colloquialism

interjection:

• not yet!; cry by the referee when one wrestler is on the attack - Sumo term

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• remaining; left-over

noun:

• delivery service where package is left in front of door or in designated area; safe drop

noun:

• being left out; being excluded; being ostracized - perhaps an abbr. of 省き - colloquialism ➜ 省く

noun:

• stile; doorjamb; doorpost; vertical frame element on the left or right of a door or window

noun:

• boiled greens in bonito-flavoured soy sauce (vegetable side dish) - Food term