adjectival noun / adverbial noun / noun:

• very hard; with utmost effort; with all one's might; for dear life - four character idiom ➜ 一所懸命

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• mostly; nearly; practically; well-nigh; almost invariably; all but; just about; almost

noun:

• all simples; winning hand containing no terminal tiles or honor tiles - abbreviation - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 断ヤオ九

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to pledge allegiance; to swear an oath of allegiance; to take an oath of allegiance

noun / ~の noun:

• taking care of one's responsibilities by oneself; one's own efforts; one's own expense
• going into business for oneself (selling one's own products); entrepreneur of such a business

suffix:

• arrabbiata; all'arrabbiata - From Italian

expression / ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• (a woman) to lose her roughness and become urbane and good-looking; to become experienced in worldly affairs

noun:

• disco dancing with synchronized arm motions

~と adverb:

• falling in (large) drops (e.g. rain, hail); sprinkle (e.g. rain, salt); pattering; clattering (e.g. hail) - onomatopoeia
• flipping through a book; thumbing through a book; riffling cards - onomatopoeia

~と adverb / adjectival noun:

• sparse; scattered (e.g. clumps of grass) - onomatopoeia

~と adverb / ~の noun:

• crumbly (e.g. tofu, cheese, non-sticky rice); loose and falling apart - onomatopoeia

noun:

• China and Japan
• Chinese and Japanese (languages)
• Chinese Character-Japanese dictionary - abbreviation ➜ 漢和辞典

adverb:

• sincerely; earnestly
• repeatedly; over and over; again and again

noun:

• three-color printing (red and yellow and blue); three-colour printing

noun / ~する noun:

• salt and pepper; seasoning with salt and pepper

noun:

• education in art and design; education in drawing and manual arts - four character idiom

noun:

• electric power producer and supplier (PPS); electric power production and supply

noun:

• to and fro process; back and forth process; cooperative process; collaborative process

noun / ~する noun:

• going to work and leaving work; clocking in and clocking out

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to meet (someone of higher status) - humble language ➜ 会う・目にかかる
• to be recognized (esp. by someone of higher status); to be visible; to be seen; to be noticed - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• fixing (in place); securing; anchoring; fastening down
• fixing (e.g. salary, capital); keeping the same
• fixation (histology) - Biology term

noun:

• user name (on an online forum like 2ch where the majority of users post anonymously) - slang - abbreviation ➜ 固定ハンドル
• user who uses a online handle (instead of posting anonymously) - slang - abbreviation ➜ 固定ハンドル

noun / ~する noun:

• patching (up); cutting a part and pasting a new one (e.g. a shoji door)
• cut and paste - IT term

expression:

• even the prosperous inevitably decay; sic transit gloria mundi; all that's fair must fade - from the Humane King Sutra - four character idiom - Buddhism term

expression:

• whether you like it or not; no matter what one may do; in any event; at all events

noun:

• allotted rice field (ritsuryo system); land distributed to all citizens from which yields were taxed by the government - archaism

noun:

• court ladies of the middle rank serving in the inner palace (Heian period)
• female servant for a samurai family
• lady-in-waiting working in the inner palace of the Edo castle (Edo period)

noun:

• black vinegar, usu. produced from unpolished rice
• charred kelp or shiitake mushrooms ground and mixed with vinegar, used to dress raw fish and vegetables

noun:

• the Three Sacred Treasures (Mirror, Sword and Jewels)
• the three essential status symbols (e.g. cellphone, PC and digital camera)