noun:

• short clip used to begin and end commercial breaks on Japanese TV - From English "eyecatch"

noun:

• leader; boss
• upper part of a flag
• (Okinawa) bamboo poles with an attached vertical flag and an elaborate display at the top that are used during the annual fertility and thanks-giving festivals

noun:

• one's wife, children, and other relations; one's whole family - four character idiom

expression / adverb:

• by hook or by crook; by all possible means - idiom

noun:

• tetrapod; tetrahedral concrete structure used in breakwaters ➜ 消波ブロック

noun:

• triangles (used in mechanical drawing); set square

noun:

• long vowel mark (usually only used in katakana) - known as ちょうおん

noun:

• wrestler's belt used in a bout - Sumo term

noun:

• pentagram (as used in divination, etc.)

noun:

• type of flat knot used in nets

noun:

• powdered abalone shell (used in Chinese medicine)

noun:

• indigo blue make-up used in Kabuki

noun:

• words mainly used in songs or poetry ➜ 歌語

noun:

• words mainly used in songs or poetry ➜ 歌詞【うたことば】

noun:

• word form primarily used in spoken language

noun:

• Mohammedan blue (pigment used in porcelain painting)

noun:

• wad of cotton (esp. used in dentistry)

expression:

• if we put this another way; in other words; put differently

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to indulge in; to give oneself up to; to be obsessed by

auxiliary verb:

• to be engrossed in; to be lost in; to be absorbed in ➜ 読み耽る

noun:

• miscellaneous recyclable paper; recyclable paper other than old newspapers and carton boxes ➜ 古紙

adverb:

• forcibly; by compulsion; importunately ➜ 押す【おす】・押す【おす】・押す【おす】
• despite; in spite of; in defiance of ➜ 押す【おす】

adverb:

• never; by no means; not in the least; in no way - with neg. verb

adverb:

• never; by no means; not in the least; in no way - with neg. verb

noun:

• getting mixed up in; getting embroiled in; involvement; entanglement; by-blow ➜ 巻き添えを食う

noun:

• rope weapon with a sickle on one end and a ring on the other