noun / ~する noun:

• heating a vessel without water in it; heating an empty pan, kettle, boiler, bathtub, etc.

noun:

• blank email (e.g. for signing up to an email list) - abbreviation ➜ 空メール【からメール】

noun:

• Chinese design; Chinese style
• traditional architecture associated with Zen ➜ 禅宗様

noun:

• bodily injury; personal injury; actual bodily harm; mayhem - Law term

noun:

• flower bud

noun:

• dry cough; hacking cough
• intentional cough (i.e. to get someone's attention) - esp. 空咳

noun:

• China-made thread or yarn

noun / ~する noun:

• bluffing; bluster; bravado

noun:

• coarse dark-brown paper

noun:

• dried salted salmon

noun:

• bronze

noun:

• physical culture; bodybuilding (body development, not necessarily weightlifting)

noun:

• Karafuto (Japanese name for Sakhalin)

noun:

• crow dipper (Pinellia ternata)

noun:

• exotic non-Japanese wood (rosewood, ebony, blackwood, etc.); imported wood

noun:

• black Japanese striped snake (Elaphe quadrivirgata); Japanese black ratsnake ➜ 縞蛇【しまへび】

noun:

• Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1875); Russo-Japanese treaty in which Japan exchanged Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands

noun:

• karamon; large gate with a karahafu gable (typically at a temple, shrine or castle) ➜ 唐破風

noun:

• Chinese; Korean; foreign language; not-understood language - archaism

noun / ~の noun:

• lacking cargo; in ballast

noun:

• dried mullet roe

noun:

• Karatsu ware; Karatsu porcelain

noun:

• karayuki-san; young Japanese women who were sent to work (mainly as prostitutes) in foreign countries, esp. in Southeast Asia (Meiji to early Showa) ➜ 唐行き【からゆき】

noun:

• sun-dried fish or vegetables

noun:

• Chinese goods; imported goods
• secondhand goods; old furniture ［からもの］ - archaism