noun:

• quadruple time; four-four time; common time - Music term
• the four instruments in the accompanying orchestra in noh, etc. (flute, floor drum, small hand drum, large hand drum) - Music term ➜ 囃子【はやし】・笛【ふえ】・大鼓【おおつづみ】・小鼓【こつづみ】・太鼓【たいこ】

noun:

• simmering after steaming - Food term
• simmering (in a small amount of broth); smothering; estouffade - Food term

noun:

• medicine; pharmaceuticals; (legal) drugs; pill; ointment; salve
• efficacious chemical (gunpowder, pesticide, etc.)
• (pottery) glaze
• small bribe ➜ 鼻薬

noun:

• star; any light-emitting (or reflecting) heavenly body (except for the sun and the moon)
• offender; perpetrator - police slang - slang
• star point (in go); hoshi; intersection marked with a dot
• circular symbol (said to be shaped like a shining star)
• bullseye
• one's star (out of the nine stars); the star that determines one's fate ➜ 九星
• small dot; spot
• point; score - Sumo term

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to collapse; to crumble
• to get out of shape; to lose one's shape; to become disorganized; to become untidy
• to break down; to be thrown into disarray
• to crash (stock market); to slump; to decline
• to break money into small change
• to turn bad (e.g. weather); to change for the worse; to deteriorate

noun / ~の noun:

• one breath; pause; rest
• one go (i.e. in a short time)
• small amount of effort

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• (a) step
• level; stage
• small degree; small amount

noun:

• caching
• cashing
• taking out small loans

noun:

• decapitation; beheading - sensitive
• firings; dismissals; layoffs; downsizing
• small samurai sword used for decapitation

noun:

• dilapidated house; tumbledown house; hovel; miserable shack
• my house; my home - humble language
• small resting place comprising four pillars and a roof (with no walls)

noun:

• hinoki leaf ➜ 檜
• hiba false arborvitae (species of cypress, Thujopsis dolabrata) ➜ 翌檜
• small ornamental false cypress (i.e. a variety of hinoki or a related species) ➜ 矮鶏檜葉

noun:

• (finger) ring ➜ 指輪
• metal thimble ➜ 指貫【ゆびぬき】
• ring used to constrict a finger to make it small and beautiful - archaism

noun:

• classroom
• department; laboratory
• single-room school; small school

noun:

• cabinetwork; joinery - usu. 指(し)物
• hair ornament; hairpin - often 挿(し)物
• colours; banner; small banner worn by soldiers during battle (for identification) from the Sengoku period to the end of the Edo period - archaism

noun:

• pair; couple; set
• antithesis ➜ 対句

counter:

• counter for items that come in pairs
• counter for sets (of clothes, small furniture, utensils, etc.)

adverb / ~と adverb:

• trickling (of water) - onomatopoeia
• flickering (of fire) - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• darting about (e.g. a small animal); scampering about; moving rapidly - onomatopoeia

suffix:

• doing; in such a state - abbreviation
• doing together; contest; match
• familiarizing suffix (sometimes meaning "small") - familiar language

adjectival noun:

• common; commonplace ➜ ざらにある・ざらにいる
• reckless

noun:

• pulp paper - abbreviation ➜ ざら紙
• granulated sugar - abbreviation ➜ ざらめ糖
• coins; small change - archaism

noun:

• cart (esp. a food cart); stall; stand ➜ 屋台店
• festival float; portable shrine dedicated to a god and shaped like a house; dancing platform ➜ 踊り屋台
• stage prop fashioned after a large building
• framework (of a house, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ 屋台骨
• house (esp. a small and miserable house) - archaism