noun:

• tone mark; mark placed in one of the four corners of a hanzi to show the tone in Chinese

noun:

• tone mark; mark placed in one of the four corners of a hanzi to show the tone in Chinese ➜ 声点

noun:

• street performance by itinerant entertainers featuring a tumbling act in which a child performer wears a carved lion's head

noun:

• kotatsu; table over an electric heater (orig. a charcoal brazier in a floor well) with a hanging quilt that retains heat - polite language - female language ➜ 炬燵【こたつ】

noun:

• groove in a shamisen player's fingernail caused by the friction of the string of the instrument
• someone's ability to play the shamisen

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to take a meal; to have a meal; to catch a meal; to get grub; to grub; to break bread; to chow down; to eat dinner; to have a bite; to strap on a feed-bag

noun:

• person who resorts to petty tricks; a person of small caliber who is only capable of petty tricks - four character idiom

noun:

• natural disaster reduction; reduction of the effects of a natural disaster

noun:

• circle ➜ ○【まる】

noun / prefix noun:

• entirety; whole; full; complete

noun:

• money; dough; moola - slang
• enclosure inside a castle's walls - esp. 丸
• soft-shelled turtle - Kansai dialect ➜ スッポン

suffix:

• suffix for ship names; suffix for names of people (esp. infants); suffix for names of swords, armour, musical instruments, etc.; suffix for names of dogs, horses, etc. - esp. 丸 ➜ 麻呂

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to go to and from (a place); to go back and forth between; to run between (e.g. bus, train, etc.); to ply between
• to go to (school, work, etc.); to attend; to commute; to frequent
• to circulate (e.g. blood, electricity); to be communicated (e.g. thought) ➜ 血が通う・心が通う
• to resemble

noun:

• hilly section of a city (usu. residential); Yamanote (hilly residential section of western Tokyo, incl. Yotsuya, Aoyama, Koishikawa, Hongo, Ichigaya, Akasaka, Azabu and surrounds) ➜ 下町・山手【やまて】
• place near the mountains ➜ 山手【やまて】

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to lick
• to taste
• to experience (esp. a hardship)
• to make fun of; to make light of; to put down; to treat with contempt; to underestimate - esp. ナメる - usually written using kana alone

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to disappear; to stop being; to leave - from いる and なる ➜ 居る【いる】・成る

noun:

• special Diet session; special session of the Diet; Diet session required to be convoked within thirty days of a general election

noun:

• special Diet session; special session of the Diet; Diet session required to be convoked within thirty days of a general election ➜ 特別国会

noun:

• life; life force - sometimes written as 生命 ➜ 生命
• lifetime; lifespan
• most important thing; foundation; core
• paired tattoos of the "life" kanji on the upper arms of a man and woman (indicating unwavering love) - archaism
• fate; destiny; karma - archaism

~する noun:

• to fret (over); to brood (about); to mope; to worry - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• worriedly; (fretting) constantly; (worrying) over this and that; (obsessing) to no end - onomatopoeia

noun:

• fine weather (i.e. little or no clouds); fair weather; clear weather; clear sky; fair skies

noun:

• holiday; day off; furlough; absence (from work)

noun / ~する noun:

• alighting (from train, bus, etc.); getting off

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• regret; chagrin; mortification

noun:

• freedom from obstructive thoughts - Buddhism term ➜ 有念

noun:

• space; air; midair
• (from) memory; (by) heart ➜ 空【そら】

noun:

• choosing one from among several; multiple choice

noun:

• several (objects, usu. from two to six)

noun / ~する noun:

• downsizing
• switching from mainframe to personal computers - IT term