noun:

• counting "stars" to tally the score to date; how well something has gone (e.g. in terms of wins over losses) - Sumo term

expression:

• head over heels; madly (in love) - often used mockingly

noun:

• landline phone; fixed phone (in contrast to mobile) ➜ 携帯電話

noun:

• Maru-ship; Japanese ship (because Japanese ship names often end in Maru)

noun:

• table d'hôte; set meal (usu. in a hotel) - From French ➜ アラカルト

noun:

• thinning hair; sparse hair (as in balding)

noun:

• the entombed; the person buried (usually in burial mounds, etc.)

noun:

• Pullman bed; raised pull-down bed (in a train, ship, etc.)

noun:

• kakekotoba; pivot word; play on words (esp. in poetry); pun

noun:

• female professional; mistress (in a field)

noun:

• dilettantism; amateurism (in art)

noun:

• margin; spread (in prices)

noun:

• collision; overlapping (e.g. of two objects in a video game)

noun:

• Bon holidays; Bon holiday period (in mid-August) ➜ 盂蘭盆

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be different and distinct; to be (relatively) distinct (when referring to items in a set) - Mathematics term ➜ 異なる

noun:

• Far Eastern brook lamprey (Lethenteron reissneri); sand lamprey (species found in the Northwest Pacific)

noun:

• kotatsu; table over an electric heater (orig. a charcoal brazier in a floor well) with a hanging quilt that retains heat - polite language - female language ➜ 炬燵【こたつ】

noun:

• tidal flat; ebb tide beach (esp. in spring)

noun:

• closing the legs; keeping the legs together (in gymnastics) Antonym: 開脚【かいきゃく】

expression:

• love is blind; (when in love) even pockmarks are dimples [literal] - proverb

noun:

• landline phone; fixed phone (in contrast to mobile) - abbreviation ➜ 固定電話

noun:

• lined hogfish (Bodianus leucosticticus); Bodianus rubrisos (declared separate species from B. leucosticticus in 2006)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to make a hit; to have a great success (e.g. in business, with a play, etc.)

noun:

• moderate line; middle-of-the-road line (in politics) - four character idiom

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• uncommon; extraordinary (in relation to human characteristics)