noun:

• wild nashi (Pyrus pyrifolia var. pyrifolia); wild Japanese pear

noun:

• Japanese crucian carp (Carassius cuvieri); white crucian carp

noun:

• Dsinezumi shrew (Crocidura dsinezumi); Japanese white-toothed shrew ➜ 地鼠

noun:

• white-spotted char (Salvelinus leucomaenis leucomaenis); Japanese char

godan ~く verb:

• to be bewitching; to look coquettish; to behave in an alluring manner; to behave in a seductive manner ➜ 婀娜っぽい【あだっぽい】

noun:

• koto (13-stringed Japanese zither)
• stringed instrument ［こと］ - archaism
• zheng (Chinese zither); guzheng ［箏・筝］

noun:

• written language; literary language
• formal (or archaic) written style based on Heian-period Japanese

noun:

• nashi (Pyrus pyrifolia, esp. var. culta); Japanese pear; Asian pear; sand pear; apple pear

noun / ~する noun:

• reading in a monotone
• reading a Chinese classical text without translating it into Japanese

noun:

• Japanese katydid (Gampsocleis buergeri)
• katydid; bush-cricket (Tettigoniidae); long-horned grasshopper
• cricket - archaism

noun:

• rhinoceros beetle (esp. the Japanese rhinoceros beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus)

noun:

• Chinese parasol-tree (Firmiana simplex); Chinese-bottletree; Japanese varnishtree; phoenix-tree

noun:

• Japanese style of calligraphy based on the gyousho style popular in the Edo period ➜ 青蓮院流

noun:

• toad with wart-covered skin (esp. the Japanese toad or the wrinkled frog) - colloquialism

noun:

• clocks made in Japan, mainly in the Edo period; clocks that tell Japanese time

noun:

• negative question; question asked in the negative (e.g. "Can't you read Japanese?") - Linguistics term

noun:

• the "wa" column of the Japanese syllabary table (wa, wi, we, wo)

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to write down (what someone says); to take down dictation; to take notes (e.g. of a lecture)
• to copy out (a text)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to pay for another; to pay someone else's debt as a loan to him; to make temporary payment on a person's behalf

adverb / noun:

• circumstances; condition; convenience

~する noun:

• to arrange; to manage
• to lend money; to raise money

adverb:

• in all; in total; all told

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to change (e.g. a bill); to transfer (e.g. money); to switch over; to move over

expression / ichidan verb / transitive:

• to weigh on one's mind; to trouble one's heart; to be concerned about; to worry about

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to catch one's breath; to gulp; to have one's breath taken away; to gasp

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to cast a shadow; to appear
• to loom (of a threat, etc.); to manifest (of symptoms, etc.)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to fall to one's knees; to go down on one's knees (e.g. to express respect)