noun:

• text message or symbol on a busy mobile phone indicating a call arrival (DoCoMo feature)

noun:

• love of a knight for a courtly lady (upon which he is unable to act) - From German "Minne"

noun:

• sweetie (sweet green-skinned citrus; cross between a grapefruit and a pomelo); oroblanco

noun:

• skipping grades; the act of entering a new school as a non-first-year student

noun:

• underboob; bottom of a woman's breasts (visible when wearing a short top) - slang ➜ オッパイ

noun:

• place where one can view a vast number of cherry blossom trees at a glance - esp. 吉野山 in Nara

expression:

• owing a lot to somebody; being indebted; never forgetting someone who has done a favour

noun:

• picture painted with oil paint (esp. a landscape mural in a public bath)

~と adverb / adverb:

• with a clatter - onomatopoeia
• with a fling (opening a door, window, etc.) - onomatopoeia
• bright and clear (weather, sky, etc.); perfectly (fine weather) - onomatopoeia
• nicely dry (laundry, air, etc.); crisply (fried, cooked, etc.) - onomatopoeia
• cheerfully; frankly; open-heartedly - onomatopoeia
• completely (forget, change, etc.); totally - onomatopoeia

expression:

• sacrifice something small in order to save something great; lose a leg to save one's life; to let a large bug live and kill a small one [literal] - proverb

godan ~ぐ verb / transitive:

• to act as an agent for; to intermediate
• to announce (someone's arrival); to answer (the door, the phone); to receive (a guest at reception); to usher in (a guest)
• to convey (a message)

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to dish up; to fill (a bowl) with
• to pile up; to heap up; to fill up; to stack up
• to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to prescribe
• to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)
• to mark out (e.g. scale); to graduate (e.g. thermometer)
• to exaggerate; to apply heavy makeup - slang

noun:

• having the face of a devil and the heart of Buddha; having a stern face but a tender heart - four character idiom

noun:

• trunk; torso; body; abdomen; waist
• plastron (in kendo); touching the plastron (kimari-te in kendo)
• frame (of a drum, etc.); sound box (of a shamisen, etc.); hull (of a ship)

noun:

• veranda; porch; balcony; open corridor ➜ 縁【えん】
• bone at the base of a fin; meat at the base of a fin (esp. of a flatfish) ［縁側］ ➜ 担鰭骨

noun:

• glow of a river in the darkness; surface of a river gleaming in the darkness; gleam on a river at dusk

noun:

• conditions of a location; suitability of a location; convenience of a location

expression / ichidan verb:

• to take a breather; to take a rest; to take a break

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to receive; to get
• to catch (e.g. a ball)
• to be struck by (wind, waves, sunlight, etc.)
• to sustain (damage); to incur (a loss); to suffer (an injury); to feel (influence)
• to undergo (e.g. surgery); to take (a test); to accept (a challenge)
• to be given (e.g. life, talent) - esp. 受ける, 享ける

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to find funny; to find humorous; to be amused (by) - esp. ウケる - colloquialism - usually written using kana alone

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to follow; to succeed; to be descended from - esp. 受ける, 享ける
• to face (south, etc.)
• to be modified by - esp. 受ける, 承ける - Linguistics term
• to obtain (a pawned item, etc.) by paying a fee - esp. 請ける, now primarily used in compound words ➜ 請け出す

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be well-received; to become popular; to go down well - esp. ウケる, うける - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• chimney; smokestack; funnel (of a ship); stovepipe
• carrying a passenger without turning on the taximeter - slang

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• lifting a ban; raising an embargo; opening a season (hunting, fishing, etc.)
• publishing contents; revealing information - colloquialism

noun:

• legal wife (of a noble) (as opposed to a concubine) ➜ 側室・本妻
• room for receiving guests ➜ 表座敷【おもてざしき】
• heir; successor - obscure term

noun:

• avatamsa (flower adornment, as a metaphor for becoming a buddha) - Buddhism term
• Avatamska sutra - abbreviation ➜ 華厳経
• Kegon (sect of Buddhism) - abbreviation ➜ 華厳宗

noun:

• adding sounds to a soundtrack after a film has been made; postrecording; postsynchronization; postsynchronisation; postlooping; dubbing - abbreviation - From English "after recording" ➜ アフターレコーディング

noun:

• begging Zen priest of the Fuke sect (wearing a sedge hood and playing a shakuhachi flute)