expression:

• for better or worse; for good and bad; regardless of merit; both good and bad

noun:

• banners of thanks for the full house (in sumo tournaments, soccer matches, concerts, etc.) - four character idiom

adjectival noun / adjectival noun (achaic):

• prone to crying - archaism

noun:

• cemetery for those who left no relatives behind; potter's field - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• adapting for TV; television adaptation

noun:

• child or doll used as a vessel for a spirit invoked by a shaman or miko

adverb:

• for millennia and millennia; for years and years; forever and ever - archaism

noun:

• cupboard or chest for tea implements

noun:

• pieces of crab prepared for use in shabu-shabu (usu. claw meat) - Food term ➜ しゃぶしゃぶ

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to aim for laughs; to play to the crowd

noun:

• respect for literary culture

suffix / counter:

• counter for games of mahjong - Mahjong term - From Chinese "zhuang"

noun:

• utai (noh chant) piece for recitation ➜ 歌物

noun:

• facing a wall for nine years in meditation (by Bodhidharma at Shaolin Temple) - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun:

• kanji for "takara" (impressed on the obverse of a coin) ➜ 宝

noun:

• flood control measures

noun:

• mouse model for human disease

noun:

• crime for which one's three types of relatives will be punished; crime implicating one's relatives of all three types - obscure term ➜ 三族

noun:

• room for boiling water
• bathroom; bath

counter:

• counter for generations

suffix noun:

• epoch - Geology term

noun:

• foobar-style name for a dummy variable - IT term

noun:

• bonus paid to sports people for excellent performance - From English "talent money"

noun:

• work hakama for use in the snow ➜ 山袴

noun:

• Systems for Nuclear Auxiliary Power; SNAP

noun:

• one-time fee for grave land rental