noun / ~する noun:

• flying
• false start - abbreviation ➜ フライングスタート
• doing something before the arranged time; breaking a street date

noun:

• entering the priesthood; priest; monk - Buddhism term
• man with a shaven head
• bald-headed monster

noun:

• memorial service held on the seventh day following a person's death - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• meddling; interfering

noun:

• choosing to keep the drawn tile and discarding a different one - Mahjong term ➜ ツモ切り【ツモぎり】

noun:

• the six virtues (perfections) a Buddha elect practices to attain supreme enlightenment - four character idiom

noun:

• a good time to view the moon (i.e. when it is full) - archaism

noun:

• hog (esp. a wild boar, but also including the domesticated pig) - archaism

noun:

• "No." (Zhaozhou's answer to the koan "Does a dog have Buddha nature?") - Buddhism term ➜ 狗子仏性

expression / noun:

• seasonal greeting; conventional opening phrase in a letter, appropriate to the season

noun:

• blacktip tope (Hypogaleus hyugaensis, a hound shark found in the Indo-West Pacific)

noun:

• purifying salt (thrown in the sumo ring before a bout, after funerals, etc.) ➜ 清めの塩

noun:

• shower stool with a u-shaped hole in the middle

noun:

• sastrugi; parallel wave-like ridges formed on a snow surface by the wind

noun:

• nutmeg (soccer); hitting a ball through the legs (e.g. in tennis) - slang - Sports term

noun:

• seeking one's own interests; straining (the interpretation or argument) to suit one's own interests; drawing water for one's own field - four character idiom

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to ascertain; to make sure of; to determine; to probe; to get to the bottom (of something)

noun:

• phoenix (bird of Egyptian mythology) - From Latin
• phoenix (any palm tree of genus Phoenix, incl. the date palm)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to shove to one side; to look at out of the corner of one's eyes

noun:

• leaving or staying
• (one's) course of action; (one's) position; (one's) attitude

noun:

• being carried away by a current
• drowning in a river; person who drowned in a river
• cancellation; standing up; breaking a promise

noun:

• business; task; errand; engagement
• use; purpose

suffix noun:

• for the use of ...; used for ...; made for ...

noun:

• call of nature; excretion ➜ 用を足す

noun:

• Home Ministry; Department of the Interior (US, etc.); Home Office (UK); Ministry of Home Affairs (Japan, pre-1947)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to speak frankly; to speak unreservedly; to open up to each other; to talk candidly; to speak by laying everything on the table; to talk straight from the gut; to have a heart-to-heart talk

noun:

• the head; the foremost; beginning; the very front

expression:

• the most; the best; peerless; the greatest; first-rate