noun:

• parent; parents; mother and father ［親］
• dealer (in cards, mahjong, etc.); banker ［親］ ➜ 子【こ】
• founder; inventor
• (pet) owner ［親］

~の noun / noun:

• key; parent (organization); main ［親］

noun:

• ancestor; forefather

noun:

• skin
• body (in the context of intimate bodily contact) ➜ 肌を許す

noun / suffix noun:

• surface; grain (e.g. of wood); texture
• disposition; temperament; character; type ➜ 肌が合う

noun / ~する noun:

• second helping; another cup; seconds ➜ 代わり【かわり】

interjection:

• command to have dog place its second paw in one's hand ➜ お手【おて】

noun / ~する noun:

• squeeze (play) - Baseball term
• (in scuba diving) discomfort or pain caused by increasing water pressure compressing body air spaces and pushing body tissue inward

noun:

• immortal mountain wizard (in Taoism); mountain man (esp. a hermit)
• one not bound by earthly desires or the thoughts of normal men

noun:

• hiring from another company; recruitment; scouting; headhunting
• quick costume change in kabuki (taking off outer costume)
• drawing (wire, pipes, metal plate)

noun:

• kasaya; monk's stole - Buddhism term
• wearing an article of clothing in the same manner as a kasaya (i.e. draped over one shoulder) - abbreviation ➜ 袈裟懸け

noun:

• succession of words of similar meaning; redundancy (e.g. free gift); tautology ［じゅうごん］
• kanji compound in which the same character is repeated - e.g. 堂堂

noun:

• principle of nationality (according to which an offender should be tried in accordance with the law of his or her own country) ➜ 属地主義

~と adverb / adverb:

• isolated; standing alone - ぽっつり is emphatic - onomatopoeia
• falling in drops (e.g. rain) - onomatopoeia
• saying a single word; muttering just a few words - onomatopoeia

noun:

• littering, esp. such things as empty cans, cigarette butts, dog faeces, etc. along roads, in parks, etc.; careless tossing away

noun:

• tactics of fighting a technologically advanced adversary with primitive weapons; sole reliance on simple determination (naive spiritualism) in fighting an overwhelming foe - four character idiom

noun:

• skilled engineer (mechanic) who is clumsy in all other matters; person who gets a great kick out of tinkering with anything mechanical - four character idiom

noun:

• special seats and standing-only space in the galley for people who only intend to see one act of a kabuki play

noun:

• daikon (variety of large white Oriental radish, Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus) (primarily used in context of the seven spring herbs) - obscure term ➜ 大根・春の七草

expression:

• things depend on how you use them; all things have their uses when they are used in the right way - proverb

noun:

• golden spadefish (Platax boersii, species of Indo-West Pacific spadefish found in Indonesia, New Guinea, and the Philippines); Boer's batfish

noun:

• the Four Home Provinces (Yamato, Yamashiro, Settsu, and Kawachi); obsolete in 757 when Izumi was established as a separate province from Kawachi - archaism ➜ 五畿内

noun:

• the four great civilizations of the world (China, Babylon, India and Egypt as put forward by Chinese scholar Liang Qichao in 1900)

noun:

• dried small sardines, etc. used to make fish stock ➜ 煮干し
• person in bank transfer scam whose role it is to withdraw the cash - slang

noun:

• facing one's opponent head-on and winning via overwhelmingly superior strength or skill; match in which a yokozuna overpowers his opponent - Sumo term

noun:

• the four great civilizations of the world (China, Babylon, India and Egypt as put forward by Chinese scholar Liang Qichao in 1900)

noun / suffix noun:

• fiscal year (usu. April 1 to March 31 in Japan); financial year
• academic year; school year
• product year

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to stick (to); to cling (to)
• to stay (e.g. in the office)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to pretend to be tough; to put on a brave front; to whistle in the dark; to bluff