noun:

• judicial decision made with human kindness and warmth in a fair manner (from the decisions of Ōoka Tadasuke, a jurist in 17th century Japan)

noun:

• flurry of snow in a clear sky
• winter wind which brings scattered snowflakes or raindrops
• skin eruptions cause by a cold or fever ➜ 風ほろし

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to turn one's hand to; to reach out one's hand
• to get involved in; to make a move on
• to start a fight; to make a move in violence

adverb:

• in a line; in a row - onomatopoeia

noun:

• a printer's; a printer

adverb:

• with a bump; with a clunk - onomatopoeia

~と adverb:

• with a click; with a snap - onomatopoeia

adverb:

• a little bit ➜ 些と
• a little while ➜ 些と

noun:

• defeat; loss; losing (a game)

suffix:

• failing to live up to (one's name, looks, etc.) ➜ 名前負け【なまえまけ】

noun:

• discount; loss (on a sale)

noun:

• bitch; witch; ugly woman; dog - derogatory term - From Portuguese "espada"
• normal card; card having only a floral pattern that gives a player only one point - orig. meaning, referring to the card suit "spades" ➜ 花札

noun / ~する noun:

• holding a castle (during a siege); holing up
• confinement (to one's home); staying at home; staying indoors

noun:

• finishing reading

noun / ~の noun:

• non-serialised story (e.g. in a magazine); complete story

noun:

• breaks and pauses (in a sentence) ➜ 句読

noun:

• in calligraphy, an abbreviated or mistaken form of a character, or a work written in more than one calligraphic style

noun:

• speech balloon (in a comic strip); speech bubble
• blowoff; effusion; blowing; venting
• blowing (of a seasonal or climatic wind)

noun:

• picking up a bowl with one's right hand which is already holding one's chopsticks (a breach of etiquette) - obscure term

godan ~つ verb / transitive:

• to hit (a person); to strike; to beat
• to deliver (a speech); to give (an address)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to apply (a rule); to be applicable; to come under (a category); to fulfill; to hold true

noun:

• manager (e.g. of a business, an idol, etc.)
• in a sports team (esp. at school) someone who does the routine drudge work

noun:

• any of a number of sets of thirty-three holy places enshrining Avalokitesvara (esp. those comprising a popular pilgrimage in the Kinki region) ➜ 西国三十三所

noun:

• cosmic bowling; bowling in a bowling alley that is lit up like a disco with lots of flashing lights

noun:

• echo; reverberation
• sound (esp. the distinctive sound of an object or activity, e.g. rain, gun, gallop, drum); noise
• quality of a sound (e.g. a fine phrase, clear voice, resonant bell); feeling of a sound; emotion or feeling inspired by something heard or read

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be piled up; to lie on top of one another
• to come one after another; to happen over and over; to pile up (e.g. stress); to accumulate
• to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time; to happen simultaneously

expression / adjectival noun:

• thank you for your hard work; I appreciate your efforts

adverb:

• somehow or other; for some reason or another; without knowing why

particle / conjunction:

• if; when
• and
• with
• particle used for quoting (with speech, thoughts, etc.) ➜ って

noun:

• promoted pawn - abbreviation - Shōgi term ➜ と金

particle:

• ? - at sentence end; indicates question - Kyūshū dialect