expression / noun:

• menial services (e.g. kitchen work); serving one's master unsparingly - usu. as 薪水の労をとる

noun:

• marrow; pith
• centre; center; nucleus; hub
• bottom of one's heart

expression / noun:

• mother's feeling as she waits for her child to return ➜ 倚門の望

expression / noun:

• mother's feeling as she waits for her child to return

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to bask in the sun lying flat on one's belly ➜ 甲羅干し

noun:

• lussekatt; Scandinavian saffron bun traditionally eaten on St Lucy's Day - From Swedish

~の noun / noun:

• reserve; spare
• treasured; valued
• (ace) up one's sleeve; trump ➜ とっておき

noun:

• campaign against the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty (1959-60, 1970)

noun:

• paper towels (for drying one's hands) - From English "towel paper"

noun:

• backwater ➜ バックウォーター
• standing with one's back to water (river, lake, etc.) - archaism

noun:

• one's repertoire of pitches - usu. 持ち球 - Baseball term
• balls at hand (in pachinko) - usu. 持ち玉

noun:

• chaperoning; monitoring someone's behaviour
• watchdog; chaperone; watcher

noun:

• monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata); ape; non-human primate ➜ ニホンザル
• sly person - derogatory term
• idiot; hick - derogatory term
• sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut)
• clasp used to control the height of a pot-hook ➜ 自在鉤
• bathhouse prostitute - archaism ➜ 湯女

noun:

• anchor (of a ship) ➜ 錨【いかり】
• last runner or swimmer in a relay team
• news anchor; news presenter - abbreviation ➜ アンカーマン
• anchor (clock component); pallet fork ➜ アンクル
• anchor (HTML) - IT term
• link to previous post (e.g. in web forums) - IT term ➜ レスアンカー

noun:

• a number of interesting stories; book containing a number of interesting stories

noun:

• food served on a table (esp. food served on a small Japanese table) ➜ 膳部

~の noun / adjectival noun:

• high (e.g. ball in baseball); highish; on the high side
• on the expensive side; comparatively expensive ➜ 安め【やすめ】

noun:

• wait tile which produces a winning hand with a higher score - Mahjong term

expression:

• all men are alike; all lives are alike; all men live and die; we all bleed the same; a pike conger has one life, a shrimp does too [literal] - proverb

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to carry up; to bring up; to lift up
• to elevate (someone) to a high position; to convince someone to accept a post (esp. through flattery)

noun:

• mountain and water; landscape (containing hills and rivers)
• landscape picture ［さんすい］ - abbreviation ➜ 山水画
• mountain stream; water that flows down from a mountain
• garden which contains an artificial hill and a pond ［さんすい］ ➜ 築山

adjectival noun / adverb / noun / ~の noun:

• amount necessary to fill a container (e.g. cupful, spoonful, etc.); drink (usu. alcoholic)
• full
• one squid, octopus, crab, etc.; one boat

adverb / ~の noun / adjectival noun:

• fully; to capacity - usually written using kana alone
• a lot; much - usually written using kana alone

suffix noun / adverbial noun:

• all of ...; the entire ... - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• traditional cap worn by Shinto clergy and courtiers ➜ 衣冠・束帯
• crown; diadem; coronet
• top kanji radical ［かんむり］
• first verse of a haikai, etc. ［かむり］ ➜ 俳諧

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• best; peerless; first ［かん］

noun:

• name; title; named sponsorship of a program, event, team, etc. ［かんむり］

noun / ~する noun:

• retiring high-ranking government officials taking a lucrative job in a private or semi-private corporation
• command (from superior to inferior, government to private sector, etc.); order; imposition
• descent from heaven - orig. meaning

noun:

• interior of the womb (of a pregnant woman); interior of the uterus
• interior of a Buddhistic statue

noun / ~する noun:

• heavy eating and drinking; gorging and swilling; drinking like a cow and eating like a horse - four character idiom