noun:

• rescue and assistance (by public bodies) (e.g. in time of disaster)

noun:

• rice gruel containing vegetables, fish, etc., and seasoned with miso or soy sauce ➜ 雑炊

noun:

• solfa syllables (do, re, mi, fa, sol (soh), la and si (ti))

noun:

• being devoted; spending all one's time and energy on

interjection:

• no!; don't!; tsk!; used to scold small children and pets

noun:

• burr (prickly seeds or seedheads that stick to fur and clothes) ➜ ひっつき虫

noun:

• burr (prickly seeds or seedheads that stick to fur and clothes) ➜ くっつき虫

noun:

• user needs (generally in market research and IT)

noun:

• Semite (speaker of a semitic language, esp. Jews and Arabs)

noun:

• pasturing cattle in summer and feeding them indoors during winter; rotated grazing - four character idiom ➜ 夏山冬里方式

noun:

• happy-go-lucky fellow; easygoing and indifferent person; pococurante ➜ 極楽蜻蛉

noun:

• mochi cut thin, dried, and baked or fried ➜ 欠き餅

noun:

• large seal script (dating from China's Spring and Autumn period onward) ➜ 六体

noun:

• Kinki region (incl. Osaka, Kyoto, Hyogo, Nara, Wakayama, Mie and Shiga prefectures)

noun:

• Kanto region (incl. Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki and Chiba prefectures)

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• lofty; soaring; towering; precipitous; high and steep; sharply sticking out; jutting upward

noun:

• (logical) conversion (transposition of subject and predicate to form a new proposition)

noun:

• signs, symbols and characters used in manga to represent actions, emotions, etc. - slang

noun:

• Edo-period popularized blend of Buddhist, Shinto and Confucian ethical teachings (popularised) ➜ 心学

noun:

• large seal script (dating from China's Spring and Autumn period onward) ➜ 大篆

noun:

• large seal script (dating from China's Spring and Autumn period onward) ➜ 大篆

noun / suffix noun / counter:

• distance between outstretched thumb and middle finger (approx. 18 cm) - archaism

noun:

• short clip used to begin and end commercial breaks on Japanese TV - From English "eyecatch"

noun:

• difference between track followed by front and back inner wheels when turning

noun:

• tea ceremony performed with tables and chairs (instead of sitting on tatami)