noun:

• captain (Army, U.S. Marine Corps, USAF); lieutenant (Navy); flight lieutenant (RAF, RAAF, RNZAF, etc.) - pron. だいい in ref. to the old Japanese navy

adjectival noun / noun:

• mystery; something inexplicable; wonder; miracle - four character idiom ➜ 不思議
• unfathomable (of a Buddha's abilities)

numeric:

• 10^64 (or 10^80)

noun:

• side or bottom of a ship; ship's hold; bottoms; shipping; tonnage; freight space

noun:

• lady's pin money (pocket money); payment to a cosmetician ［けしょうりょう］
• cosmetic material ［けしょうりょう］
• dowry (Edo period)

noun:

• obligatory gift chocolate; chocolate given by women to male acquaintances on Valentine's day ➜ 本命チョコ

noun:

• word of respect added to the addressee's name on a letter
• under the desk

noun:

• luggage trunk for wrestlers and referees; wicker basket for a wrestler's belt, apron, etc. - Sumo term

expression:

• for (e.g. "she dances well for an eight-year old"); considering it's (something or someone)

expression:

• making something strong even stronger; solidifying something's chances; giving a metal rod to an ogre [literal] - idiom

noun:

• dance performance held in April by geisha and maiko in Kyoto's Gion district

noun:

• any large, red, deep-water scorpionfish with big eyes
• Matsubara's red rockfish (Sebastes matsubarae) ➜ 赤魚鯛

expression:

• like a pigeon who's been shot by a peashooter (i.e. wide-eyed in shock)

expression / adjective:

• With the best will in the world, you can't say that it's good

noun:

• children's game similar to Statues or Red Light Green Light; Bodhidharma fell down

noun:

• permanent edition; timeless edition; collector's version; only issue of non-regularly printed magazine or mook

noun:

• pinky swear; pinky promise; making a pledge by hooking each other's little fingers ➜ 指切拳万、嘘ついたら針千本呑ます【ゆびきりげんまんうそついたらはりせんぼんのます】・指切り

expression:

• faith is mysterious; through faith, even something trivial (like a pilchard's head) seems valuable - proverb

noun:

• sending off a customer (e.g. to the closest train station)
• sending customers (somebody's way)

noun:

• adding a product line or department to improve a store's performance - From English "line robbing"

noun:

• battle standard decorated with hanging strips of paper or leather
• fireman's standard (Edo period)

godan ~る verb:

• to tattle; to tell on; to inform a superior of someone's actions - colloquialism

yodan ~ふ verb (archaic) / intransitive verb:

• to serve (by a superior's side) ［候ふ］ - archaism

auxiliary verb / yodan ~ふ verb (archaic):

• to be - auxiliary used in place of ある after で or に when forming a copula - archaism - polite language
• to do - auxiliary used in place of ます after a -masu stem - archaism - polite language

noun:

• atoll butterflyfish (Chaetodon mertensii); Merten's butterflyfish; keel-finned butterfly-fish; orangebar butterflyfish

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to corner (esp. an opponent's king in shogi); to trap; to checkmate - slang ➜ 詰める

expression:

• seeing is believing; one eye-witness is better than many hearsays; a picture is worth a thousand words - proverb