noun:

• woman so glamorous as to bring ruin to a country (castle) as its king (lord) is captivated by her beauty; femme fatale - four character idiom ➜ 傾城傾国

noun:

• woman so glamorous as to bring ruin to a country (castle) as its king (lord) is captivated by her beauty; femme fatale - four character idiom ➜ 傾国傾城

noun:

• preface; introduction ➜ 前置き
• lead in (to a joke, question, etc.); lead up
• payment in advance (by bank transfer) - abbreviation ➜ 前振込み
• swinging (one's body) forward

noun:

• 1995 Okinawa rape incident; kidnapping and rape of a 12-year-old Japanese girl by three U.S. servicemen stationed in Okinawa

noun:

• woman so glamorous as to bring ruin to a country (castle) as its king (lord) is captivated by her beauty; femme fatale - four character idiom ➜ 傾城傾国【けいせいけいこく】

noun:

• standard practice; playing by the book; established tactic; formula
• joseki (in go); standard sequence (esp. in a corner); standard move

noun:

• word created by retaining the first syllable (or two) of a word and suffixing it with the word "moji" ➜ 女房詞

expression:

• pay it forward; paying it forward; repaying a good deed by doing good for others

noun:

• position (in finance: amount of a security either owned or owed by an investor or dealer); open interest; outstanding account; sales or purchase contract

noun:

• tea rolled by hand over a dryer (old production method); hand-rolled tea

noun:

• (being in) the red; deficit Antonym: 黒字
• red letter; red writing
• corrections (by a teacher or proofreader) written in red

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to stand up; to put up; to set up; to erect; to raise - also written as 起てる
• to thrust into; to bury into; to dig into
• to make (a noise); to start (a rumour); to raise (a cloud of dust, etc.); to cause
• to make; to establish; to set up; to develop; to formulate
• to put up (a political candidate); to make (one's leader)
• to treat with respect; to give (someone) their due; to make (someone) look good; to avoid embarrassing (someone)
• to sharpen; to make clear
• to shut; to close ➜ 閉てる
• to make tea (matcha); to perform the tea ceremony ➜ 点てる
• to divide by

suffix / ichidan verb:

• to do ... vigorously - after the -masu stem of a verb

noun:

• compulsory winding-up; winding-up by a court; compulsory liquidation; involuntary dissolution

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to change (lower-body clothing: shoes, slippers, pants, a skirt, etc.) ➜ 着替える
• to put on the wrong pair of shoes by mistake ➜ 履き違える

adverb / ~と adverb:

• choked up (with emotion); heart-wringing; momentary tightening of one's chest caused by powerful feelings (e.g. parting with a loved one) - esp. 胸がきゅん（と）なる - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• grant; bestowal; giving something to someone of low social standing (by a person of very high social standing)

noun:

• slip of the pen; mistake in writing ➜ 書き損じ
• something ruined by a mistake in writing (e.g. postcard) ➜ 書き損じ

noun:

• slip of the pen; mistake in writing
• something ruined by a mistake in writing (e.g. postcard)

expression / noun:

• person of high standing facing no opposition and with a warped view of reality
• The Emperor's New Clothes (tale by Hans Christian Andersen) - orig. meaning

noun:

• Argument for Leaving Asia; editorial written in 1885 by Fukuzawa Yukichi arguing that Japan should align itself with the West rather than China and Korea; Datsu-A Ron

noun:

• match where the umpire disqualifies the coach and one player after the player has done something dangerous (such as hit by pitch; to prevent retaliation by the opposing team) - Baseball term

noun:

• drums which announce the opening of a stage performance or commencement of bouts; the sound produced by such drums - Sumo term

noun:

• pidgin; creole; new language created by blending two or more existing languages (e.g. Afrikaans) - Linguistics term
• contamination; creation of unorthodox words or phrases by combining terms of similar form or meaning - Linguistics term ➜ コンタミネーション

noun:

• play put on in a village; play put on by villagers

adverb:

• by (from) choice; by (for) preference; of one's own accord; of one's (own) free will; on purpose; deliberately; intentionally ➜ 好む