noun:

• star; any light-emitting (or reflecting) heavenly body (except for the sun and the moon)
• offender; perpetrator - police slang - slang
• star point (in go); hoshi; intersection marked with a dot
• circular symbol (said to be shaped like a shining star)
• bullseye
• one's star (out of the nine stars); the star that determines one's fate ➜ 九星
• small dot; spot
• point; score - Sumo term

noun / ~する noun:

• searching for a marriage partner; marriage hunting; activities leading to marriage, e.g. dating, courtship, etc. - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ 結婚活動

expression:

• a drop in the bucket; a drop in the ocean; (pouring) water on a hot stone [literal] - idiom

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to warm oneself; to sun oneself; to warm up; to get warm

expression / ichidan verb:

• to come to the point; to touch on the point; to address the main points

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be self-complacent; to be conceited; to flatter oneself; to be full of oneself

expression / adjective:

• to gain nothing; to be of no benefit; to be no use; to be unprofitable

adjectival noun / ~の noun / noun:

• absorbed in; immersed in; crazy about; obsessed with; devoted to

noun / adjectival noun:

• forgetting oneself; daze; trance; ecstasy; delirium

noun:

• within a dream; while dreaming

noun:

• point worthy of note; highlight (e.g. in a film); thing to note
• good prospects for the future; promise

noun / ~する noun:

• passing on to the next life - Buddhism term
• death
• giving up a struggle; submission
• being at one's wits' end; being flummoxed
• coercion

noun:

• appearance; look; countenance
• a 'seeming' that fortune-tellers relate to one's fortune ➜ 女難の相
• aspect - Linguistics term
• phase (e.g. solid, liquid and gaseous) - Physics term

expression:

• it is wiser to make money steadily over time; light gains make heavy purse; better small takings than a large win [literal]

expression:

• matter being discussed (e.g. in a private conversation)
• our side of the story (in contrast to another's version)

noun:

• waiting to see one's opponent's move before doing anything (e.g. as a disallowed act in rock, paper, scissors)

noun:

• Artemisia (genus of a between 200 to 400 species of plants in the daisy family Asteraceae) ➜ 蓬・アルテミシア属

noun:

• cutover; cut-over; starting new (IT) equipment; transferring from the old to a new (hardware and/or software) system - IT term

noun:

• set of problems (e.g. in a textbook) in which previously learned skills are applied to real world situations; practical assessment

noun:

• way of entangling one's hands together to leave a small opening between the middle and ring fingers; fox's window [literal]

noun:

• game in which people sit in a circle taking turns to imitate the previous person's humorous facial expression or gesture

noun:

• official notice
• Edo-period proclamation issued by the shogunate (or a daimyo, etc.) usu. to the general populace ［お触れ・御触れ］ - abbreviation ➜ お触書

noun:

• publicly predicting the future developments of a creative work (making it difficult for the creator to use those ideas) - slang ➜ ねた

noun / ~する noun:

• unwinding of funds transfer obligations; requesting a bank to return money that was transferred (e.g in error or in excess)

noun / ~する noun:

• opening (a door, window, etc.); leaving open
• opening up (e.g. to the public); allowing (public) access

noun:

• second in command
• fourth athlete to compete in a 5-on-5 team competition (kendo, judo, etc.) ➜ 先鋒【せんぽう】

adjectival noun / noun:

• strict; hidebound; inflexible; being a sticker for the rules; sticking hard and fast to the rules - four character idiom