noun:

• number of events (e.g. accidents, crimes, meetings, housing starts, hits on a web page)

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• utterance; speaking; vocalization; vocalisation; enunciation; pronouncing
• leading a group of people (in cheering, singing, etc.)

noun:

• principal occupation; main job
• professional; an expert; specialist

pronoun:

• I (of a government official, etc.); me

noun:

• ritual prayer; invocation of the gods participating in a rite - Shintō term
• congratulatory address ［しゅくし］ ➜ 祝辞【しゅくじ】

noun:

• sewamono (in kabuki, etc., a domestic drama about ordinary people, esp. of the Edo period)

noun / ~する noun / prefix noun:

• turbidity; cloudiness (of a liquid); opacity; muddiness (e.g. water, mind, consciousness)

noun / ~する noun:

• disorder; chaos ➜ 混乱

noun:

• long thin strip of dried sea-ear or paper attached to a gift

temporal noun / ~の noun / suffix noun:

• dawn; daybreak Antonym: 暮れ

suffix noun / prefix noun:

• end; soon after something has ended
• beginning (of a new year, month, etc.)

noun:

• tent
• tabernacle
• small curtain-enclosed area (off a stage)
• Makuya (Original Gospel Movement of Japan)

noun:

• minor or untalented actor (relegated to roles such as the legs of a stage horse)

noun:

• branch; offshoot; tributary; fork; ramification (e.g. of a nerve, blood vessel, ore vein, etc.)

noun:

• type of crime which requires a formal complaint from the victim in order to prosecute - Law term

noun / ~する noun:

• lack of registration (in the census register)
• buying a geisha or prostitute her contractual freedom ➜ 身請け

noun:

• bottle gourd
• ensign bearing a cluster of gourds (used by Toyotomi Hideyoshi)

noun:

• special version of a product with features that allow it to be used for evaluation - abbreviation - From English "evaluation chip"

noun:

• order; ordering
• beginning; start
• foreword; preface; introduction ➜ 序詞
• opening of a song (in gagaku or noh) ➜ 序破急

noun:

• food covered in a thick starchy sauce (usu. made of kuzu or katakuriko flour) - Food term ➜ 餡

noun:

• Cheki; brand of small instant cameras made by Fujifilm

interjection:

• check it out; take a look - From English "check it"

noun:

• etalon (optical element with parallel surfaces used to increase the coherent length of a laser)

noun:

• (of a website) being delisted or censored by the Google search engine

noun:

• off-flavor; bitterness or other unpleasant taste that detracts from the flavour of a drink

noun:

• Potsdam Declaration (July 26, 1945 statement establishing the terms of a Japanese surrender)

noun:

• second life (esp. that of a retiree)
• SecondLife (online virtual world)

noun:

• Piltdown man (manufactured fossil of a fraudulent ape-human missing link, Eoanthropus dawsoni)

noun:

• implements used to enhance the effect of a play (e.g. props, costumes, etc.)