noun / ~する noun:

• opposition; rebellion; revolt; resistance; backlash; refusal
• rebounding; recoiling; repulsion
• rally (e.g. in stock prices); recovery

noun:

• tide; current
• sea water
• opportunity; chance ［しお］
• thin soup of fish or shellfish boiled in seawater ［うしお］ - abbreviation ➜ 潮汁【うしおじる】

noun / ~する noun:

• throwing into; inserting; depositing
• investment; putting in (personnel, etc.)
• release of a product
• making (an electrical circuit)

suffix:

• Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; Ms. - after a person's name (or position, etc.) - honorific language
• makes words more polite (usu. in fixed expressions) - usu. after a noun or na-adjective prefixed with お- or ご- - polite language ➜ お粗末さまでした

noun:

• state; situation; appearance

noun:

• ball (for sport, games, etc.)
• kemari; type of football played by courtiers in ancient Japan ［鞠・毬］ ➜ 蹴鞠

noun:

• notches; serration; indentation; jaggies (stair-step artifacts in computer images) - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun / adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• notched; serrated; jagged; corrugated; milled - onomatopoeia

suffix:

• Lord; Sir ［きょう］ - honorific language

noun:

• state minister (under the ritsuryo system) ➜ 律令制

pronoun:

• you (in reference to someone of lower status) ［けい］ - archaism - male language - honorific language

noun:

• advance guard; vanguard
• athlete who competes in the first match of a team competition (kendo, judo, etc.)

noun:

• Japanese puppet theatre in which recited narrative and dialog is accompanied by a shamisen (forerunner of bunraku) ➜ 浄瑠璃・文楽

noun:

• popularization; simplification; explaining in simple language
• adaptation of history for popular reading (esp. Chinese); historical novel writing

noun:

• country's official writing system; native script
• kana ➜ 仮名【かな】
• kanji that originated in Japan (as opposed to China) ➜ 漢字

noun:

• bardo; state (or period) of intermediate existence between one's death and rebirth (in Japan, 49 days) - Buddhism term

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

noun:

• modal shift (esp. changes in freight transport, e.g. from air to sea)

expression / adverb:

• after all is said and done; no matter what people say; in the end; definitely; undeniably

noun:

• carton (e.g. of cigarettes)
• tray (in which money is placed when paying); dish
• pasteboard ［カルトン］ - From French "carton"

noun:

• protective household deity in Tōhoku, appearing as a red-faced child spirit with bobbed hair

noun:

• type of food (sliced dried herring or other fish wrapped in konbu seaweed and boiled)

noun / ~する noun:

• buying more than one of the same item in different colors (colours) - slang ➜ イロチ

noun:

• var. of knot often used to tie mizu-hiki
• woman's hairstyle, braided in this fashion

noun:

• bardo; state (or period) of intermediate existence between one's death and rebirth (in Japan, 49 days) - Buddhism term ➜ 中陰・四有

noun:

• contradictio in adjecto; contradiction between an adjective and the noun it modifies (wooden iron, hot ice, etc.)

noun:

• "New Nessie" (unidentified sea creature discovered by Japanese trawler Zuiyo Maru in 1977)

noun:

• crime committed together by two or more people (in which each is known as a co-principal)

noun:

• sabdavidya (ancient Indian linguistic and grammatical studies) ➜ 五明
• chanting of Buddhist hymns (usu. in Sanskrit or Chinese) - Buddhism term