noun:

• turning point; turnaround point (e.g. in a race); turning back point ➜ 折り返し点【おりかえしてん】

noun:

• partner country; other country (in a dispute, arrangement, etc.); opponent (country)

noun:

• championship; defense (e.g. of a position in debate); apologetics

noun:

• cutting a person's sidelocks; evenly cut sidelocks (symbol of adulthood for noblewomen in the Heian era); ritual of cutting the sidelocks (coming-of-age ceremony for women from about 1568-1867) - archaism

noun:

• break room; lounge (e.g. in an onsen); resting room

noun:

• sanitary waste receptacle; sanitary napkin disposal bin (in a bathroom); fecal specimen receptacle (at a hospital)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to let fly; to make fly; to send flying; to blow off (e.g. in the wind); to launch; to fire; to hurl; to shoot
• to skip over; to leave out; to omit; to drop (e.g. a stitch)
• to run fast; to drive fast; to gallop
• to spray; to splash; to spatter
• to say without reservation; to call out (e.g. a jeer); to rattle of (e.g. a joke)
• to spread (e.g. a rumour); to circulate; to send out (a message); to issue (e.g. an appeal)
• to transfer (to a less important post); to send away (e.g. to a provincial branch); to demote
• to dispatch quickly (e.g. a reporter)
• to get rid of; to burn off (alcohol)
• to attack (e.g. with a leg manoeuvre)

auxiliary verb / godan ~す verb:

• to do vigorously; to do roughly; to do energetically

noun / ~する noun:

• attendance (at work); being at work; presence (in the office); going to work; reporting for work ➜ 退勤

adjectival noun / noun:

• thick; dense; rich (as in taste or content); deep (colour); strong (smell, scent)
• crowded

noun:

• flagwaving; flagman; (in athletic competition) starter; instigator; leader

noun:

• clumsy person; bungler; person with no particular talents (in performing arts); nondrinker; nonsmoker - four character idiom

noun:

• racket; paddle (in table-tennis)

noun:

• adjective; i-adjective (in Japanese) - Linguistics term

noun / ~する noun:

• toast; drink (in celebration or in honor of something)
• drinking one's glass dry

interjection:

• cheers

noun / ~する noun:

• self-confidence; confidence (in oneself)

noun:

• decision of a contest; finals (in sports)

noun / ~する noun:

• performance; appearance (in a stage, film, TV show, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• taking a seat; sitting down (in one's seat)

noun:

• kotatsu; table over an electric heater (orig. a charcoal brazier in a floor well) with a hanging quilt that retains heat

noun:

• buzzer; personal alarm (loud buzzer to attract attention in case of attack)

noun:

• order; rank; position (e.g. in a race); precedence

noun / ~する noun:

• pitching; throwing a ball; bowling (in cricket); pitched ball

noun:

• index; index number; exponent (e.g. in floating-point representation); characteristic

noun:

• young lady of noble birth; princess (esp. in Western contexts, tales, etc.)

suffix noun / noun:

• girl ➜ 彦

prefix:

• small; cute; lesser (in names of species)

noun:

• prostitute - archaism - Kyōto dialect

noun / ~する noun:

• fall; decrease (in income)