noun:

• star (esp. television); personality - From English "talent"
• talent; skill
• talent; unit of currency in ancient Greece and Israel ➜ タラント

noun:

• administrative divisions of Japan: Tokyo-to, Hokkai-do, Osaka-fu, Kyoto-fu and remaining prefectures

noun:

• binding hand and foot; temporary feeling of paralysis; sleep paralysis
• being tied down with money - colloquialism

noun:

• being overheard; being leaked (e.g. secrets)
• going in one ear and out the other

noun:

• Hikari; high-speed Tōkaidō and Sanyō-line Shinkansen train service (faster than Kodama; slower than Nozomi) ➜ こだま・のぞみ

noun / ~する noun:

• going from door to door greeting relatives and friends
• complimentary visit for the New Year

noun:

• unlucky day (according to astrology); (previously a) death anniversary; purification and fast day ➜ 陰陽道

noun:

• multi-tenant building; building containing a mixture of businesses, shops and residential apartments

noun / ~する noun:

• enduring something out of pride; putting up with it; grinning and bearing it

noun:

• bryophyte (any of three groups of non-vascular land plants, incl. mosses, hornworts and liverworts) ➜ コケ植物

adjectival noun:

• explosive
• sudden and dramatic (of an increase in sales, popularity, etc.); explosive; rapid; abrupt; tremendous

noun / ~する noun:

• broken into small fragments; smashed to atoms; fragments and splinters; smithereens

noun:

• baby talk (e.g. "choo-choo" for train); words and speech patterns used by infants

godan ~す verb:

• to gnaw at and scatter around; to start a lot of things without finishing any

noun:

• bryophyte (any of three groups of non-vascular land plants, incl. mosses, hornworts and liverworts) - obscure term ➜ コケ植物

noun:

• training partner
• training hall (esp. one made of wooden planks and used for dancing practice)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to sleep in an awkward position and wake with a crick in one's neck

noun:

• dish made with pork belly and bones, simmered with miso, sake, vegetables, etc. (from Kagoshima)

noun:

• balcony - abbreviation
• Spanish bar; Spanish-style restaurant with a counter, serving food, alcoholic drinks, and coffee - From Spanish

noun:

• sore loser stubbornly refusing to admit being wrong and adhering to the far-fetched argument - four character idiom

noun:

• sore loser stubbornly refusing to admit being wrong and adhering to the far-fetched argument - four character idiom

noun:

• Edo-period mouth harp (with a hairpin-like frame and a long straight tongue)

noun:

• (a statesman making) extraordinary efforts to find and employ capable persons (persons of great wisdom) - four character idiom

noun:

• (a Buddhist monk or priest or nun) without head shaven and not wearing religious garb - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• go into a huddle (over); hold a secret conference (about); put heads together and conspire - four character idiom