noun:

• snow remaining in the form of a mist after it has melted

noun:

• reading a text from start to finish
• transliterating classical Chinese into Japanese ➜ よみくだす

noun:

• traditional Chinese cold remedy (a medical powder with antipyretic and diaphoretic effects) - archaism

noun:

• man-made water channel (e.g. round a castle); artificial trench; moat - archaism

noun:

• (sake) brewed in wooden vats, squeezed out by weight on a pole - obsolete term

noun:

• fashion style for young women invoking a soft, forest-like feeling

noun:

• telephone card etc. with a misprint or other error - From English "error card"

noun:

• purifying salt (thrown in the sumo ring before a bout, after funerals, etc.) ➜ 清めの塩

noun:

• shower stool with a u-shaped hole in the middle

noun:

• darling (only of a woman); dear; honey; my betrothed - archaism - familiar language
• one's sister - archaism
• friend - archaism - familiar language - female language

expression / adjective:

• being dealt a bad hand (in mahjong, card games, etc.) - idiom
• poor (handwriting) - idiom
• unscrupulous - idiom

noun:

• national of a third country
• foreigner (esp. Chinese and Korean) resident in Japan - sensitive

noun:

• personalised page within a web based client interaction system - From English "my page"

noun:

• dragon-like cryptid fish with many whiskers and no bones (likely a sturgeon) ➜ 蝶鮫

noun / ~の noun:

• a woman's natural inclination to care for others; big-sisterly disposition

noun:

• solitary confinement in a dark cell without bedding (for up to one week)

expression:

• hopelessly inaccurate; not even remotely close; can't hit the side of a barn - colloquialism

noun:

• attendant; best man (at a wedding); groomsman; maid of honor; bridesmaid

noun:

• thin green spring onion shoots (esp. minced as a condiment) - Food term

noun:

• groups of hiragana characters which are arranged to look like a face

noun:

• playing doctor; children examining each other's genitals (often as a role play)

expression / noun:

• formal complaint (regarding conduct of a criminal case); appeal for reconsideration; protest - Law term

noun:

• festival celebrating the (temporary) transfer of a shintai away from its main shrine - Shintō term ➜ 神体

noun:

• short, padded coat that covers someone and a baby on their back - abbreviation ➜ ねんねこ半纏

noun / ~する noun:

• sleeping; sleep - orig. meaning - children's language

noun:

• blind official who specialized as a musician, masseur or acupuncturist (abolished in 1871) - archaism