adverb:

• a little; a bit; slightly ➜ ちょっと
• just a minute; for a moment; briefly ➜ ちょっと
• somewhat; rather; fairly; pretty; quite ➜ ちょっと

particle:

• yes?; no?; isn't it?; is it? - used at sentence-end; indicates a question (sometimes rhetorical)
• or; whether or not - after each alternative
• some- (e.g. something, someone) - after an interrogative ➜ 何か
• hmm; huh - indicates doubt, uncertainty, etc.; sometimes after other particles ➜ とか

prefix:

• very - emphatic prefix; usu. before an adjective ➜ か弱い

suffix:

• -al; -ial; -ic; -ical; -ish; -y - suffix forming adjectives or adverbs; after an indeclinable word ➜ 定か

adverb:

• in that way - archaism

noun:

• piece of wood (cut from a larger piece); chip of wood; block of wood

expression:

• first; firstly; first of all; to begin with; in the beginning; at the beginning
• Introduction; Preface - as section heading of a book, etc. - usually written using kana alone

noun / ~する noun:

• national isolation; closing the country (to foreigners) ➜ 開国

noun:

• sakoku; policy of national isolation enacted by the Tokugawa shogunate

noun:

• eyes; expression of the eyes
• area around the eyes; skin round one's eyes - orig.meaning

noun:

• Democratic Party (formed in 2016 from the merger of the DPJ and Ishin) ➜ 民主党【みんしゅとう】・維新の党【いしんのとう】
• Democratic Progressive Party (Taiwan)

expression / adjective:

• broad-minded ➜ 懐の深い
• (of a rikishi) tall, with long reach, making it harder for their opponent to get a grip on their mawashi

noun:

• purlin (structural beam in a roof); purline - Architecture term ➜ 母屋桁
• main building (of a manor) ➜ 母屋【おもや】
• central room (in traditional palatial-style architecture) ➜ 寝殿造

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to have someone send (a message, parcel, etc.); to send (via someone else); to leave (a message) with someone
• to use as an excuse; to make a pretext of - archaism

noun:

• anti-wind (device, facility or measure)
• Saposhnikovia divaricata (species of umbellifer used in Chinese medicine)
• Glehnia littoralis (species of umbellifer used in Chinese medicine) ➜ 浜防風

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to disturb the water; to wake a sleeping dog; to wake a sleeping child [literal]

noun:

• the hill back of one's home; hill back from the seashore

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to praise (to the skies); to sing the praises (of); to extol

noun:

• regional promotion coupons; merchandise coupons for the promotion of the local economy ➜ 地域振興

noun:

• genuine product; official product; accessory product from the manufacturer of the main product - IT term

noun:

• transcendent world; world outside of the material world; somewhere removed from the world

noun:

• avenue in the capital; busy main street of the capital; main thoroughfare

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• usually; ordinarily
• continuous; 24-hour (e.g. observation, operation (of a machine), care (of patient)); always on

noun:

• sharpness; cutting ability
• quickness (of wit); incisiveness; technical proficiency; skill
• peppiness (of a ball) - in ball sports

noun:

• Edo-period unit of gold coinage ［金目］
• golden eyes (of a cat, etc.)
• splendid alfonsino (Beryx splendens) - abbreviation ➜ 金目鯛

noun:

• tenkasu; crunchy bits of deep-fried dough produced as a byproduct of cooking tempura ➜ 天ぷら

noun:

• pit (of a fruit); stone - obscure term
• core
• tongue (piece of wood used to connect two boards)
• clitoris

expression / adjective:

• to have a lot on one's shoulders; to bear a lot of responsibility

noun:

• (in P2P networks) a program that monitors (and adjusts) activity of a P2P program - colloquialism - IT term ➜ モニター