noun:

• pre-paid card for purchasing books; Tosho card - replaced the 図書券 ca 1990 ➜ 図書券

noun:

• child born in first half of the year

noun / ~の noun:

• being empty-handed; bare hand (e.g. fight)
• being penniless

noun / ~する noun:

• vomit; spew; disgorge

noun:

• harelip; cleft lip - sensitive

expression / ichidan verb:

• to able to enter the New Year (i.e. have work finished, debts paid, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• vomiting and diarrhea (diarrhoea)

expression:

• for one's age

noun:

• child born of older parents
• child raised by grandparents; child spoiled by doting grandparents

noun:

• New Year's gift ➜ お年玉

noun:

• empty-handed; with nothing to start with; without capital - four character idiom

adjectival noun / noun / ~の noun:

• young; youthful

noun:

• Woman of the Year, referring to a woman born in a year with the same Chinese zodiac sign as the current year

noun:

• free-standing exercises; calisthentics (performed without using any apparatus)

expression:

• of all people

noun / ~する noun:

• wade across

adjective:

• young; youthful

noun:

• city bank; metropolitan bank

expression / ichidan verb:

• the New Year begins; the New Year starts

adjectival noun / noun:

• child born in last half of the year

noun:

• urban transport; urban transit

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to grow older; to advance in age; to be very aged ➜ 年を食う【としをくう】

expression / godan ~る verb:

• the New Year begins; the New Year starts

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• the New Year begins ➜ 年が明ける・年が改まる・新年になる

noun:

• inner-city area; city center