noun:

• between-season wear; spring and autumn clothing; spring and fall clothing

expression / ichidan verb:

• to travel all over; to be active in places widely apart

noun:

• tathagatagarbha (buddha-womb, the potential within all living things to become a buddha) - Buddhism term

expression:

• not completely unthinkable; possible, but not at all likely - abbr. of 微粒子レベルで存在している - slang

adverb:

• after all; in the end; finally

adjectival noun / ~の noun / noun:

• excellent; superb; handy; appropriate; ideal
• robust; brawny; muscular; strong; sturdy ［くっきょう］ ➜ 屈強

suffix noun:

• samurai receiving this much rice as a fee - after a quantity
• offering of rice cake containing this much rice
• person receiving this amount of money as a salary - obsolete term

noun:

• tea whisk; bamboo whisk for making Japanese tea
• hair style where the hair is tied up in a bundle on the back of the head (resembling the shape of a tea whisk)

noun:

• between-season wear; spring and autumn clothing; spring and fall clothing - also written as 間 - abbreviation ➜ 合い服

suffix:

• together
• condition; situation; state
• -ish

expression:

• sleep four hours and pass, sleep five hours and fail (when cramming for university entrance exams) - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• taste for both wines and sweets; having a liking for both alcoholic beverages and sweet things - four character idiom

expression:

• Riches and honors are as fleeting as floating clouds; Fortune and fame are here today, gone tomorrow - four character idiom

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• being both repellant and attractive at the same time; being both cute and disgusting - slang - colloquialism

noun:

• road; path; street; lane; passage
• route; way
• distance; journey
• road (e.g. to victory); course
• way (of living, proper conduct, etc.); moral principles
• teachings (esp. Confucian or Buddhist); dogma
• field (e.g. of medicine); subject; speciality
• means; way; method

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to come and go; to go back and forth

noun:

• the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period (Chinese history) - four character idiom

noun:

• having a long torso and short legs; long-bodied and short-legged - four character idiom

noun:

• Saint Christopher and Nevis; Saint Kitts and Nevis

noun:

• the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period (Chinese history) ➜ 春秋戦国【しゅんじゅうせんごく】

noun:

• Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Christopher and Nevis ➜ セントクリストファーネイビス

expression:

• take care of yourself before you take care of others; wave off your own flies before you wave off somebody else's flies [literal] - proverb

noun:

• food (esp. chicken and vegetables) boiled in plain water (or sometimes dashi, etc.) and served with dipping sauce (esp. ponzu) - Food term

noun:

• Chinese-style low dining table ➜ 卓袱台
• Japanese-Chinese cuisine, served family-style (large dishes, diners help themselves), specialty of Nagasaki Chinese style low dining table - abbreviation ➜ 卓袱料理
• soba in soup with slices of boiled fish paste, shiitake mushrooms, greens, seaweed, etc. - often 志っぽく - Kansai dialect ➜ お亀【おかめ】

noun:

• Act against Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Representations; Law for Preventing Unjustifiable Extra or Unexpected Benefit and Misleading Representation - Law term

noun:

• National Diet; legislative assembly of Japan (1947-)
• Imperial Diet; legislative assembly of Japan (1889-1947) - abbreviation ➜ 帝国議会【ていこくぎかい】
• legislative assembly; parliament; congress ➜ 議会

noun:

• lintel of the alcove in a tea room or a window in a shoin-style reception room
• cloud-shaped carving on the bottom of a transom
• metallic bowl used to hold the charcoal in a wooden hibachi ➜ 火鉢