noun:

• preceptor or high priest (esp. in Zen or Pure Land Buddhism) ［おしょう］ - honorific language
• preceptor or high priest (in Tendai or Kegon Buddhism) ［かしょう］ - honorific language
• preceptor or high priest (in Shingon, Hosso, Ritsu or Shin Buddhism) ［わじょう］ - usu. 和上 - honorific language
• second highest priestly rank in Buddhism ➜ 法眼
• monk (esp. the head monk of a temple) ［おしょう・かしょう］
• master (of one's art, trade, etc.)

noun:

• count; earl
• chief official of the Department of Worship ➜ 神祇官
• eldest brother - archaism

noun / prefix noun / suffix noun:

• Brazil; Brazilian - abbreviation ➜ 伯剌西爾【ブラジル】

noun:

• Imperial Shrine of Special Status (receiving some support from the Imperial Household Department) - obsolete term ➜ 官幣社

noun:

• agency (government department between a ministry and a bureau under the ritsuryo system) ➜ 律令制

noun:

• food mall; restaurant area (of a department store, airport, etc.); restaurant floor

noun:

• gynecology department

noun / ~の noun:

• gynecology

noun:

• neurology
• neurology department

noun:

• altering pronunciation or meaning; word with altered pronunciation or meaning
• turning or twisting part of a text (in Chinese poetry) - abbreviation ➜ 転句【てんく】

noun:

• tamponade; blockage or closure of a wound or body cavity by (or as if by) a tampon (esp. to stop bleeding) - Medicine term ➜ 心タンポナーデ【しんタンポナーデ】

adverb / expression:

• before or since; neither before nor after; no other time in one's life; stressing a particular moment or event as being unique or most extreme

noun:

• prefectural senior high school (in Tokyo Metropolitan Area); public senior high school (in Tokyo Metropolitan Area) ➜ 県立高等学校

noun:

• natural or man-made feature or object on the earth's surface (trees, hill, river, road, building, etc.); object or structure important in a battle, esp. for concealment

noun:

• to enrol in a temple school; child enrolled in a temple school ➜ 寺子屋
• incarcerating a criminal in a temple as a form of punishment (popular during the latter Muromachi and Azuchi-Momoyama periods)
• to go to a temple and repent (following a disaster, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• fire fighting

noun:

• fire department; fire brigade

noun:

• editorial office; editorial department; editorial board

noun:

• lost child department; place to bring lost children to

noun:

• prefectural senior high school (in Kyoto and Osaka prefectures); public senior high school (in Kyoto and Osaka prefectures) ➜ 県立高等学校

noun / ~する noun:

• one's post; one's station; department; bureau; section

noun:

• commerce (field of study); department of commerce (at a university)

noun:

• inside the Imperial Palace
• Department of the Imperial Household ➜ 宮内省

noun:

• muscle; tendon; sinew
• vein; artery
• fiber; fibre; string
• line; stripe; streak
• reason; logic ➜ 筋が通る
• plot; storyline
• lineage; descent
• school (e.g. of scholarship or arts)
• aptitude; talent
• source (of information, etc.); circle; channel
• well-informed person (in a transaction)
• logical move (in go, shogi, etc.)
• ninth vertical line - Shōgi term
• seam on a helmet
• gristly fish paste (made of muscle, tendons, skin, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ 筋蒲鉾
• social position; status - archaism

suffix noun / noun / ~の noun:

• on (a river, road, etc.); along

suffix / counter:

• counter for long thin things; counter for roads or blocks when giving directions
• (Edo period) counter for hundreds of mon (obsolete unit of currency) - archaism

noun:

• unprofitable department; loss-making division; loss-making segment

noun:

• Grand Council of State (1868-1885 CE) ［だじょうかん・だいじょうかん］
• Department of State (under the ritsuryo system) - usu. だいじょうかん ➜ 律令制

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:

• criminal investigation department; CID; criminal investigation section