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- ぴょこん・ピョコン
~と adverb / adverb:
- quickly, in a bouncing way (e.g. for a bow) - onomatopoeia
- 返球【へんきゅう】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- return toss (e.g. from a catcher to a pitcher)
彼らはどんな体勢で捕っても地肩が強いからいい返球ができる。 Their shoulders are strong no matter what stance they are in so they can throw back to the pitcher well.
- 自在鉤【じざいかぎ】自在かぎ
noun:
- pothook (for hanging a pot, etc. over a fire)
- 盛菓子【もりがし】盛り菓子
noun:
- cakes heaped in a container for a shrine offering
- 花代【はなだい】
noun:
- price of a flower
- fee for a geisha's companionship
- 辻斬り【つじぎり】
noun:
- killing a passerby in order to test a new sword
- 竜虎の争い【りゅうこのあらそい】
expression / noun:
- well-matched contest; fight between a dragon and a tiger [literal]
- ポケハロ
noun:
- "pocket Hello Kitty" that combines a pedometer and a tamagotchi - abbreviation
- 同伴出勤【どうはんしゅっきん】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- (a bar hostess) coming to work accompanied by a customer - four character idiom
- 池泉回遊式【ちせんかいゆうしき】
noun:
- style of garden that features a path around a pond - obscure term
- 文福茶釜【ぶんぶくちゃがま】
noun:
- bunbuku chagama (a mythical raccoon dog transformed into a teapot)
- 請求記号【せいきゅうきごう】
noun:
- call number (e.g. of a book in a library)
- おぼれる者はわらをもつかむ【おぼれるものはわらをもつかむ】おぼれる者は藁をもつかむ・溺れる者は藁をも掴む
expression:
- a drowning man will catch at a straw - proverb
- 土面【どめん】
noun:
- clay face (made like a mask or as a decoration)
- かん・くわん
adverb / ~と adverb:
- ding; chime (sound of a bell or a small gong) - onomatopoeia
- 復部【ふくぶ】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- returning to a club (one was formerly a member of) - colloquialism - obscure term
- 絵看板【えかんばん】
noun:
- signboard depicting scene from a play (usu. outside a theatre)
- 損して得取る【そんしてとくとる】損して得とる
expression:
- You must lose a fly to catch a trout - idiom
- 脚質【きゃくしつ】
noun:
- running style (of a horse, e.g. a front runner)
- 立版古【たてばんこ】立て版古
noun:
- papercraft sculpture representing a scene akin to a painting
- 鎧櫃【よろいびつ】
noun:
- storage chest for a suit of armour and a helmet
- 油色【ゆしょく・ゆうしょく】
noun:
- coating a painting with a layer of transparent oil
- 蛮触の争い【ばんしょくのあらそい】
expression / noun:
- fighting over nothing; making a mountain out of a molehill
- 蝸牛角上の争い【かぎゅうかくじょうのあらそい】
expression / noun:
- fighting over nothing; making a mountain out of a molehill - idiom
- 蝸角の争い【かかくのあらそい】
expression / noun:
- fighting over nothing; making a mountain out of a molehill