noun:

• Emperor's Birthday Holiday (Dec 23rd) (Emperor Shouwa's was April 29th)

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to admire a person's courage; to approve of someone's ambition

noun:

• swift's nest (used to make bird's nest soup) ➜ ツバメの巣

noun:

• Endler's livebearer (Poecilia wingei); Endler's guppy

noun:

• daddy's girl; daddy's boy; child strongly attached to its father

noun:

• (addressee's) name; (recipient's) name and address

noun:

• another's eyes; other people's eyes; casual observer - usu. よそ目に

noun:

• cloth bib displaying a competitor's number; athlete's number - From German "Decken"

noun:

• kid's lunch; kid's meal ➜ お子様セット

noun:

• Weil's disease; Weil's syndrome; severe leptospirosis ➜ レプトスピラ症

expression:

• God only knows; it's anyone's call; heaven knows - proverb

noun:

• baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae); brewer's yeast

noun:

• straight A's; all A's ➜ 全優【ぜんゆう】

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to catch; to capture; to seize; to arrest; to grab; to catch hold of
• to grasp (e.g. meaning); to perceive; to capture (e.g. features)
• to captivate; to move (one's heart)

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to seize; to catch; to grasp; to grip; to grab; to clutch; to hold; to catch hold of; to lay one's hands on
• to obtain; to acquire; to get; to win; to capture
• to understand; to grasp; to comprehend

noun / suffix noun:

• department; section; faculty; school; arm
• course (of study); branch of study; specialization
• (taxonomical) family

noun:

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

pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about something or someone distant from both speaker and listener, or about a situation unfamiliar to both speaker and listener); so; that; sort of ➜ こんな・そんな・どんな

pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about something or someone distant from both speaker and listener, or about a situation unfamiliar to both speaker and listener); so; that; sort of - Hiroshima dialect ➜ あんな

noun:

• hypocrite; dissembler; wolf in sheep's clothing; fox in a lamb's skin

expression:

• let's put formalities aside; let's not speak so stiffly

expression:

• like water off a duck's back; urine on a frog's face [literal] - colloquialism ➜ 蛙の面に水

noun:

• inspector (third highest of the four administrative ranks of the ritsuryo system) - archaism ➜ 判官【はんがん】
• (noh) old man ➜ 翁【おきな】
• white ash (of charcoal)

noun:

• traditional married woman's hair style, with an oval chignon on top
• men's hairstyle (Edo period)

noun:

• god's majesty; god's authority; might of Heaven