noun:

• telephone dating or sex service; sex chat line - From English "telephone club"

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to push aside; to brush or thrust aside; to remove; to get rid of

noun:

• imperial memorial ceremony (held on the anniversary of the emperor's or empress's death, on fixed years) ➜ 式年

suffix:

• -ness (nominalizing suffix, esp. of sensory or subjective adjectives) - also written with the ateji 味 ➜ 甘み
• nominalizing suffix indicating location ➜ 深み
• (as ...mi ...mi) alternating between ... and ... ➜ 降りみ降らずみ

noun:

• the other party (usu. in business); person or party with whom you are dealing (on the other end)

noun:

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

noun:

• big three dragons; winning hand consisting of pungs or kongs of each of the three types of dragon tiles - Mahjong term

noun:

• baldness; bald head
• children's hairstyle of short untied hair; children with short untied hair ［かぶろ・かむろ］
• young girl working as a servant for a high-class prostitute (Edo period) ［かぶろ・かむろ］ ➜ 太夫・天神
• idiot; moron - derogatory term - usually written using kana alone

noun / ~の noun:

• outside the hall (or stadium, market, etc.); off the grounds; off the premises; off-track Antonym: 場内

noun:

• a number of interesting stories; book containing a number of interesting stories

noun:

• food served on a table (esp. food served on a small Japanese table) ➜ 膳部

noun:

• border; boundary - usu. さかい
• turning point; watershed ［さかい］ - often ...を境に
• area; region; spot; space; environment - usu. きょう
• psychological state; mental state - usu. きょう
• cognitive object; something perceptible by the sense organs or mind ［きょう］ - Buddhism term

noun:

• mince (minced meat or fish) ［タタキ・叩き・敲き］
• seared skipjack tuna ［叩き・敲き］ ➜ 鰹
• robbery; extortion ［叩き・敲き］ - slang
• hard-packed dirt (clay, gravel, etc.) floor; concrete floor - usu. 三和土 (gikun)
• whipping; lashing; bashing; beating; flaming ［タタキ・叩き］

~の noun / adjectival noun:

• high (e.g. ball in baseball); highish; on the high side
• on the expensive side; comparatively expensive ➜ 安め【やすめ】

noun:

• wait tile which produces a winning hand with a higher score - Mahjong term

noun:

• someone who made a short trip to America; going to America just long enough for a pee (ref. to short USA trip after WWII to boost one's credentials) - obsolete term - derogatory term ➜ 小便【しょんべん】

expression:

• all men are alike; all lives are alike; all men live and die; we all bleed the same; a pike conger has one life, a shrimp does too [literal] - proverb

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be caught in; to be stuck in
• to stop by; to drop in for a short visit; to be delayed; to take time
• to get mixed up in (trouble); to get entangled in (a problem); to be involved with
• to fall for (a trick); to be deceived; to be cheated
• to be on one's mind; to worry one; to be bothered by; to feel uneasy
• to be obstructed; to be hindered
• to splash

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make a mess of it; to make a hash of it; to fail and lose face; to embarrass oneself
• to spread miso (e.g. on konnyaku) - orig. meaning

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to carry up; to bring up; to lift up
• to elevate (someone) to a high position; to convince someone to accept a post (esp. through flattery)

noun:

• mountain and water; landscape (containing hills and rivers)
• landscape picture ［さんすい］ - abbreviation ➜ 山水画
• mountain stream; water that flows down from a mountain
• garden which contains an artificial hill and a pond ［さんすい］ ➜ 築山

expression:

• it is simply common courtesy to clean up after yourself; a bird does not foul the nest it is about to leave; on leaving a place one should see that all is in good order - proverb ➜ 跡を濁す【あとをにごす】

expression:

• it is simply common courtesy to clean up after yourself; a bird does not foul the nest it is about to leave; on leaving a place one should see that all is in good order - proverb ➜ 跡を濁す【あとをにごす】・立つ鳥跡を濁さず

noun:

• leaving or staying
• (one's) course of action; (one's) position; (one's) attitude

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to place an obnoxious person in an out-of-the-way post to be rid of him or her

noun:

• person who is made to do things or go get things for someone else; person who runs errands; gofer - abbreviation - colloquialism ➜ 使いっ走り