noun:

• call of a wild goose
• wild goose (esp. a lesser white-fronted goose, Anser erythropus) - usually written using kana alone
• tea made from twigs of high-quality tea plants (esp. gyokuro); high-grade kukicha (esp. from gyokuro) ➜ 茎茶・玉露

noun:

• kingfisher (esp. the common kingfisher, Alcedo atthis)
• jade (gem) ［ひすい］ ➜ 硬玉・軟玉・ジェイド・翡翠色
• beautiful lustrous colour similar to that of the kingfisher's feathers ［ひすい］

noun:

• famous place
• name of a part (of an instrument, etc.) ［などころ］
• name and address ［などころ］

noun:

• sensitivity (e.g. of a measuring instrument); reception (radio, TV, etc.)
• sensitivity (of film)

adjectival noun / noun / ~する noun:

• busyness; a lot of things to do
• frequent use; heavy use (of); many uses

noun / ~する noun:

• personal selection (esp. of a defense lawyer) - esp. 私選 ➜ 国選
• private selection (e.g. of poetry) - esp. 私撰 ➜ 勅撰

noun / ~する noun:

• one reading (of a poem aloud) leaves one with ceaseless sighs of admiration - four character idiom

noun:

• winning hand composed of two sets of two identical chows plus a pair - Mahjong term ➜ 一盃口【イーペーコー】

noun:

• written investigation; report of an investigation
• school record (on a student); transcript (of grades)

noun:

• right or wrong; good or bad; quality; suitability
• having both merits and demerits; having both advantages and disadvantages

noun:

• skilled control of a spear; stabbing (someone) with a spear - orig. meaning
• victim; scapegoat; someone singled out (for punishment, etc.) ➜ 槍玉に挙げる

noun:

• division of a shrine's tutelary deity, in order to share it with another shrine; spirit divided in such a manner

expression:

• don't be a sore loser; don't make excuses for your failures; a defeated general should not talk of strategy [literal] - proverb

expression:

• of soup and love, the first is the best; one's first spouse tends to be better than any subsequent spouse - proverb

noun:

• honorary white (non-white person, including the Japanese, that were given certain privileges during the apartheid regime of South Africa); honorary whites

noun:

• Premium Friday; government-backed campaign to allow workers to go home early the last Friday of the month - From English

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to form a crowd; to have a crowd of people

noun:

• change toward a borderless world; development of a borderless world - obscure term

noun:

• old shop; shop of long standing

~の noun:

• well-established; first of the kind; veteran

expression / adjective:

• easy; trifling; harmless; of no concern; nothing
• nothing of the sort; not at all - in the form of ~でもなんでもない ➜ ではない

noun:

• Battle of Dan-no-ura; final battle of the Genpei War (1185)

noun:

• irregular conjugation (inflection, declension) of s-stem verbs; conjugation of the verb "suru"

noun:

• irregular conjugation (inflection, declension) of s-stem verbs; conjugation of the verb "suru" - abbreviation ➜ サ行変格活用

noun:

• exchanging clothing at the time of laundering - archaism
• (money) laundering
• moving average method of valuation
• reassessing

noun:

• Diplomorpha sikokiana (species of flowering plant)
• paper made from the fibre of this plant - abbreviation ➜ 雁皮紙