noun:

• auspicious characters (used in people or place names)

noun:

• box; case; chest; package; pack; crate
• car (of a train, etc.)
• shamisen case; shamisen
• public building; community building - often written as ハコ - colloquialism ➜ 箱物
• man who carries a geisha's shamisen - archaism ➜ 箱屋
• receptacle for human waste; feces (faeces) - archaism

suffix / counter:

• counter for boxes (or boxed objects)

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

noun:

• protocol; written evidence; record (investigation, interrogation, etc.); preliminary memo; charge sheet

noun:

• card (with a message written on it) - From English "message card"

noun:

• written request for permission to leave early (school, work, etc.)

noun:

• stamp; seal; chop
• seal impression; seal; sealing; stamp; mark; print
• mudra (symbolic hand gesture) - Buddhism term
• ninja hand sign

noun / suffix noun / prefix noun:

• India - abbreviation ➜ 印度

noun:

• washbasin; stoup or font for cleaning hands (esp. tea house, garden decoration, or for ablutions when visiting a shrine or temple) ➜ 手水舎

suffix:

• style; manner
• after (period of time) again (e.g. meeting again after a year); for the first time in (period of time) ➜ 久しぶり【ひさしぶり】

noun:

• outdoor clothing fashion style for young women; young woman who dresses in outdoor clothing; young woman who enjoys mountain climbing

noun:

• selling or divesting in unwanted stocks; hiding bad loans

noun:

• waitress (in a ryokan or traditional restaurant); hostess

noun:

• pinning technique (in wrestling or judo) - Martial Arts, Sumo term
• underhanded dealings

noun / ~の noun:

• odd lot (e.g. in share purchase or sale)

noun:

• theism; belief in existence of a god or gods

noun:

• metre or rhythm in Chinese and Japanese traditional music

noun / ~する noun:

• staying at home or indoors; living in seclusion; retirement

interjection / noun:

• Dear Sir or Madam, in reply to your letter ... - salutation of a formal letter of response

noun:

• (primarily in shogi or go) response; countermeasure; counter-measure

noun:

• clothes for doing farm work or working in fields

noun:

• staying in the same inn or hotel; rooming together

noun:

• amah (foreign maid or nursemaid working in east Asia) - From Portuguese "ama"

noun:

• vegetables or fish boiled in soy sauce

noun:

• thin soup of fish or shellfish boiled in seawater

noun:

• politician (or someone otherwise engaged in politics); statesman