suffix noun / prefix noun / noun:

• spreading; laying out; covering

noun:

• security deposit - abbreviation ➜ 敷金
• Japanese mattress - abbreviation ➜ 敷き布団

noun:

• techno-superliner (high-speed Japanese cargo ship); TSL ➜ テクノスーパーライナー

noun:

• Kumaso (ancient Japanese people resident to southern Kyushu)

noun:

• Japanese buckthorn (Rhamnus japonica var. decipiens)

noun:

• Hōō Maru (Western-style Japanese frigate, launched in 1853)

noun:

• compound ideograph (one of the six kanji classifications); kanji made up of meaningful parts (e.g. "mountain pass" is up + down + mountain)

noun:

• unauthorized travel; riding without a valid ticket (e.g. on a train); stealing a ride

noun:

• spring and autumn; spring and fall
• years; age
• The Spring and Autumn Annals; The Chronicles of Lu; Chunqiu; Ch'un Ch'iu ［しゅんじゅう］ ➜ 五経

noun:

• point below the navel (a focus point for internal meditative techniques)

adverb:

• over the fence (e.g. looking, conducting a conversation)

~の noun:

• back-fence

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be balding in the front; to have a receding hairline

noun:

• working in the theater (theatre); attached to a particular theater

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to plow through (a wave) (plough); to tack (against the wind)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to cut a conspicuous figure; to be by far the best

noun:

• a bright (rosy) future awaiting one; having the world before one - four character idiom

expression:

• wooing technique; the way to a man's (woman's) heart

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• very much out in the open (as in a information)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to advance to the next stage (e.g. in a tournament)

noun:

• castle on a hill in the plains; flatland-mountain castle ➜ 平城【ひらじろ】・山城【やまじろ】

noun / ~する noun:

• falling due to a strong wind; being toppled by the wind

expression / ichidan verb:

• to attack a routed enemy; to sink the boot into

noun:

• whole temple complex; all the temples on a mountain
• one mountain - orig. meaning ➜ 一山【ひとやま】

expression:

• quick to take a hint; very responsive; quick on the uptake - abbreviation ➜ ツーと言えばカー【ツーといえばカー】

expression / ichidan verb:

• to look dead on the inside; to have a blank expression - colloquialism - idiom

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to indicate with the eyes; to give a significant look