noun:

• portable shrine (carried in festivals) - polite language ➜ 御輿
• buttocks; lower back; waist; hips - usually written using kana alone ➜ 腰【こし】

noun:

• lacquer; varnish; japan
• lacquer tree (Toxicodendron vernicifluum) - usually written using kana alone

noun / prefix noun:

• together with
• same

suffix:

• both; all; neither; none - usually written using kana alone
• including ... - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• leaping flames; flying sparks

noun / ~する noun:

• spread of fire (due to leaping flames)
• repercussions in unanticipated areas; spilling over; effects of an incident spreading to those seemingly uninvolved

noun:

• impetigo contagiosa - colloquialism - usually written using kana alone ➜ 膿痂疹・膿疱疹

noun:

• (many) mountains

adverb:

• very much (esp. wanting to do something one cannot); greatly; really - often as 〜のはやまやまである, etc. - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• sickle
• sickle-and-chain (weapon) - abbreviation ➜ 鎖鎌
• spear with curved cross-blades - abbreviation ➜ 鎌槍
• gooseneck tenon and mortise joint - abbreviation ➜ 鎌継
• noisiness - archaism
• part of a fish around the gills - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• H; h

adjectival noun / noun:

• indecent; lewd; frisky; sexy - from 変態 - usually written using kana alone ➜ 変態【へんたい】

noun / ~する noun:

• sexual intercourse; copulation - usually written using kana alone - colloquialism

prefix:

• nth year in the Heisei era (1989.1.8-) - abbreviation ➜ 平成

noun:

• hydrogen (H) ［Ｈ］ - abbreviation

noun:

• Inari (god of harvests, Uka-no-Mitama) ➜ 稲魂
• Inari shrine; Fushimi Inari shrine (in Kyoto)
• fox (said to be messengers of Inari) ➜ 狐
• fried tofu (said to be a favourite food of foxes) ➜ 油揚げ
• inarizushi - abbreviation - usually written using kana alone ➜ いなり寿司

noun:

• penetration; digging into something
• (in comedy) straight man; retort; quip - usually written using kana alone ➜ 惚け【ぼけ】
• sex; intercourse - idiom

noun:

• seducer; smooth talker; ladies' man; playboy; playgirl

noun / ~する noun:

• picking up women (on the street) - usu. written as ナンパ - usually written using kana alone - colloquialism ➜ 逆ナン

noun:

• moderate party; moderate ➜ 硬派
• social story (in a newspaper, etc.); society columnist (of a newspaper)
• bearish trader; bear

~の noun:

• worm-eaten; moth-eaten

noun:

• holes eaten in clothing, leaves, etc. by caterpillars, moths, etc.
• leaf warbler (any bird of genus Phylloscopus); chiffchaff; willow wren - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• white gem (esp. a pearl) - also written as 真珠 ➜ 真珠
• rice flour dumpling
• white-flowered camellia - abbreviation - usually written using kana alone ➜ 白玉椿

noun:

• pot - polite language
• typical name for a female servant in the Edo-period - archaism
• working at night
• female with symptoms of gender identity disorder (e.g. a transvestite) - often derog. - usually written using kana alone - slang

noun:

• cover; front (e.g. for illegal activities); magic cloak of invisibility
• Dendropanax trifidus (species of flowering plant) - usually written using kana alone

noun / ~の noun:

• jet black; pitch dark

noun:

• peyote (Lophophora williamsii); mescaline - usually written using kana alone ➜ ペヨーテ

noun:

• ornamental railing top; bridge railing-post knob
• Welsh onion flower; leek flower
• hosta; plantain lily - usually written using kana alone

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to send; to dispatch; to despatch

godan ~す verb / auxiliary verb:

• to bestow (favour, etc.); to grant (e.g. pardon) - after て form, slightly pompous - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• pot - polite language ➜ 釜
• volcanic crater
• (one's) buttocks
• male homosexual; effeminate man; male transvestite - often derog. - usually written using kana alone - colloquialism

godan ~ぐ verb / transitive:

• to chip (off); to shave (off); to slice (off); to sharpen
• to dampen (e.g. enthusiasm); to discourage; to weaken; to reduce - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• fifth month of the lunar calendar - obsolete term
• satsuki azalea (Rhododendron indicum) - also written as 杜鵑花 - usually written using kana alone

adjective:

• admirable; charming; refined
• nostalgic
• curious; eager to know (or see, experience, etc.) - usually written using kana alone

noun / ~の noun:

• cinnamon

noun:

• cinnamon tree (Cinnamomum sieboldii) - usually written using kana alone

adjectival noun / noun:

• clumsy (work)
• plain (e.g. looks); ugly; homely; unattractive - derogatory term - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• Buddha, Dharma, Sangha; The Three Jewels; Buddha, the teachings of Buddha, and the community of monks and nuns - Buddhism term ➜ 三宝【さんぼう】
• dollarbird (Eurystomus orientalis) - usually written using kana alone
• roller (any bird of family Coraciidae) - usually written using kana alone
• Eurasian scops owl (Otus scops) ➜ 声の仏法僧

noun:

• lying with one's head to the north (trad. position for dead bodies; taboo for sleeping)
• brown-lined puffer (species of pufferfish, Canthigaster rivulata) - usually written using kana alone