noun:

• subquest (in a video game); sub quest

noun:

• position (in finance: amount of a security either owned or owed by an investor or dealer); open interest; outstanding account; sales or purchase contract

noun:

• singing of insects (esp. in autumn); sound of insects ➜ 虫の音

noun:

• still image (in animation)

noun:

• pomade (in stick form)
• tic ➜ チック症

suffix:

• -tic - colloquialism ➜ 的【てき】

noun:

• Jizo Festival (child-focused religious festival, in which Jizo statues are decorated, esp. in Kyoto; 23-24 August)

noun:

• emergency meeting of the upper house of the Diet (in response to dissolution of the lower house)

noun:

• eight-headed, eight-tailed serpent (in Japanese mythology)

expression / noun:

• slight superiority (in knowledge, experience, ability, etc.)
• being slightly older

noun:

• Siebold's wild ginger (esp. its dried root or rhizome, used as an antitussive and analgesic in traditional Chinese medicine) ➜ 薄葉細辛

interjection:

• (in calisthenics) return to your original position!
• er, rather - used in speech to correct oneself ➜ 元へ

noun:

• natural posture (esp. in judo); natural stance
• natural attitude; relaxed manner; calm manner

noun:

• night shark (Carcharhinus signatus, species of nocturnally active requiem shark found in the Atlantic Ocean)

noun:

• subquest (in video game); sub quest - abbreviation ➜ サブクエスト

noun:

• Zebrasoma (genus of 7 species of marine tang in the family Acanthuridae with pointed snouts and forward facing spines at the base of the tail) ➜ ヒレナガハギ属【ヒレナガハギぞく】

noun:

• entertaining people by serving tea (esp. in the Obaku school of Zen) - archaism

noun:

• the five elements (in Japanese philosophy: earth, water, fire, wind and void) - Buddhism term ➜ 五行【ごぎょう】
• five great wisdom kings - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 五大明王

noun:

• Anabantoidei (suborder of the order Perciformes known as labyrinth fish that are defined by having an accessory breathing organ for respiration in air)

noun:

• prefectural senior high school (in Hokkaido); public senior high school (in Hokkaido) ➜ 県立高等学校

noun / suffix:

• general affairs section (e.g. in a company); operations division

noun:

• (in China) 3rd note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. E) ➜ 十二律・平調
• first lunar month

expression / noun:

• Day of the Rat (esp. the first Day of the Rat in the New Year)
• collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots - abbreviation ➜ 子の日の遊び
• pine shoot pulled out in such a manner ➜ 子の日の松

noun:

• Onokoro Island (in Japanese mythology, the island formed by drops of water falling from the heavenly jeweled spear); Onogoro Island - archaism ➜ 天の瓊矛
• Japan

noun:

• letting horses out the barn to graze (in spring)

noun:

• take (e.g. in film-making)