noun / suffix noun:

• column of text (e.g. in a newspaper)
• field (in a form, web page, etc.)

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• assistance; support; aid; help
• subsidy; supplement; subvention; grant-in-aid
• auxiliary; subsidiary
• spot (in bodybuilding)

noun:

• mid-January festival in northern Japan, with snow huts in which children play house
• snow hut

noun:

• amateur work (in art); work done in carefree mood without regard to time or expenses - four character idiom

noun:

• scarlet kadsura (Kadsura japonica) ➜ 実葛【さねかずら】
• white sash tied around the head, with ends hanging down and tucked into belt, worn in kyogen to indicate a female character being played by a man

noun / ~する noun:

• prowling about; traveling in secret; travelling in secret

noun:

• preserving in sugar; food preserved in sugar

expression:

• in steps of; in units of; calculated by

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• in good (perfect) order; in apple-pie order - four character idiom

expression:

• in plain words; in plain terms; put simply

noun:

• form (in Aristotelian philosophy) - From Greek "eidos"
• idea (in Platonic philosophy)

noun / ~する noun:

• food cooked in miso; cooking in miso

noun:

• everyday garment worn by nobles in ancient Japan
• silk dried after having been washed in plain water and stretched out

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to feel down; to feel sad; to be depressed; to be in low spirits
• to be in a slump (business, economy, etc.); to be in an unfavourable condition
• to fall into (e.g. a hole)

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to be in time for
• to serve (suit, meet) the purpose; to be good enough; to be enough

noun:

• Northern Limit Line; North Limit Line; NLL; demarcation line in the Yellow Sea between North Korea and South Korea

adverb:

• without hesitation; frankly (esp. speaking); bluntly; without shilly-shallying; straight to the point; getting to the heart of the matter ➜ ずばり
• cutting (forcefully, directly); piercingly

noun:

• the teachings of Buddha (as likened to the Dharmachakra, originally a wheel-like weapon used to destroy the evils of mankind); Buddhist doctrine - Buddhism term ➜ 輪宝・転法輪

noun:

• custom of keeping a pumpkin or squash during the winter and eating it on the day of the winter solstice

noun / ~する noun:

• planting a field with the same crop each year; repeated cultivation
• collaborative literary work; story made up by several writers working on it in turn
• series (of novels); cycle (of poems, songs); sequence

noun:

• The Yalta Agreement (secret American-British-Soviet agreement wherein the Soviets agreed to attack Japan within three months of the German surrender: Feb. 11, 1945) ➜ ヤルタ会談

noun:

• disguised contracting; fake subcontract; hiring a temporary employee and paying for the completion of the work rather than the work itself, thereby avoiding have to pay benefits

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be told or made to hear something so often that you (metaphorically) get calluses on your ears

noun:

• safe tile; tile that may be discarded without risking benefiting an opponent - Mahjong term
• no-risk choice; easily handled person - idiom

noun:

• safe tile; tile that may be discarded without risking benefiting an opponent - abbreviation - Mahjong term ➜ 安全牌
• no-risk choice; easily handled person - abbreviation - idiom ➜ 安全牌