noun:

• fish cake (made from sardines, used as a fertilizer); sardine meal

adverb:

• piercingly (as though cutting with a sharp sword) - onomatopoeia ➜ ぐさりと
• hard-hitting (e.g. criticism) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• collecting rocks and mineral specimens (as a hobby) - From English "stone hunting"

expression / noun:

• family crest shaped as a hemp leaf
• motif made from entwined hexagons

expression:

• ironically enough; as irony would have it; in a nice little twist

noun:

• xiaochi; Chinese street food consumed as a light meal or snack - Food term

noun:

• regulation baseball (as opposed to the variety played with a rubber ball) ➜ 軟式野球

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to pay for another; to pay someone else's debt as a loan to him; to make temporary payment on a person's behalf

noun:

• pongee; soft thin cloth woven from raw silk

noun:

• julienne (esp. of daikon); long, thin strips ➜ 繊蘿蔔

adjectival noun / noun:

• small, light and thin (of consumer products, esp. electronics) - four character idiom Antonym: 重厚長大

noun:

• thin soup of fish or shellfish boiled in seawater

noun:

• person physically attracted to thin people - slang

adverb / ~と adverb:

• sticking out prominently (usu. something long and thin); rising up - onomatopoeia

noun:

• rectangular-shaped thin-bladed knife (esp. used for vegetables)

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to obey (an order, law, etc.); to abide by (a rule, custom, etc.); to follow; to observe; to conform to; to yield to
• to follow (a person); to accompany; to go with
• to go alongside (e.g. a river); to follow (e.g. a sign)
• to serve (as); to engage in (work)

noun:

• impoverishment of fishermen because of a bumper catch; decline in fishermen's income caused by the sharply lower fish prices as a result of an overabundant catch - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• viewing and treating as one; regarding as the same; equating one thing with another; identification

noun:

• Kyoto Gozan; the five most important Rinzai temples of Kyoto, as well as Nanzen-ji

noun:

• Man of the Year, referring to a man born in a year with the same Chinese zodiac sign as the current year

noun:

• Woman of the Year, referring to a woman born in a year with the same Chinese zodiac sign as the current year

conjunction:

• and (also); both ... and; as well as

adverb:

• as much as possible; if possible

expression:

• as always; the same as it always is

conjunction:

• now that; since; as long as; provided that