noun:

• someone from one's own province (China) ➜ 外省人
• someone whose ancestors had lived in Taiwan before the Kuomintang related immigration wave ➜ 外省人

noun:

• decorative paper envelope for giving New Year's gifts (usu. money given to children) and congratulatory gifts ➜ お年玉【おとしだま】

expression / adjective:

• unable to clear away one's ill feeling; not able to do anything (about...)

noun:

• menko; children's game in which thick circular or rectangular cards are slapped down on the ground to overturn other cards - Ōsaka dialect ➜ めんこ

noun / suffix:

• stuffing; packing - づめ when a suffix

noun:

• end (esp. the foot of a bridge)
• lowest-ranking guest at tea ceremony
• tea master
• endgame (esp. in shogi or used figuratively)
• sweet eel sauce - abbreviation
• middle-aged woman - archaism

suffix noun:

• appointment to a particular workplace
• using as the sole ground of judgement (judgment)
• continuing; keep doing for period of time - after the -masu stem of a verb

adjective:

• light; well-lit; well-lighted
• bright (of a colour); brightly-coloured; brightly-colored
• cheerful; bright; spirited; sunny (e.g. disposition)
• encouraging (for the future of a project, etc.); promising; of fair prospects
• familiar (with); knowledgeable (about); well versed (in) - as 〜に明るい
• fair (e.g. politics); clean; impartial

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to overcome (opposition); to push past; to force one's way
• to press and cut

noun:

• tip of one's hand
• cheap trick; superficial wit; superficial cleverness

~の noun:

• lukewarm; cheap; perfunctory; makeshift; shortsighted

noun:

• tooth hardening toy (for infants); teether; teething ring
• tooth hardening meal; New Year's feast

noun:

• bringing one's child to the local park to play for the first time

expression:

• after the decimal point; below the decimal

expression / ~の noun:

• of no account; beneath one's notice

noun / adjectival noun / adverb:

• one's heart is filled with even deeper emotion; feeling the emotion all the more deeply - four character idiom

expression:

• Don't be absurd; That's out of the question; Nonsense; Don't mention it

noun:

• tiger's tail
• gooseneck loosestrife (species of flowering plant, Lysimachia clethroides) ➜ 岡虎の尾
• Asplenium incisum (species of spleenwort) ➜ 虎の尾羊歯

noun:

• flowers that bloom in the heavens; paper flowers scattered before the Buddha's image - Buddhism term

expression / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• being painfully-true (e.g. reprimand); making one's ears burn; striking home (e.g. remark) ➜ 耳が痛い

noun:

• division of the Buddha's 50-year teachings into five periods (theory of the Tendai sect) - Buddhism term ➜ 五時八教

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to use one's influence; to pull strings; to take measures; to make the necessary preparations

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be drawn to; to feel the call of ...; to have one's heart-strings pulled

expression / ichidan verb:

• (for the taste of something) to become apparent
• (for someone's character) to come out

expression / noun:

• pro among pros; best of the best; top tier; ultimate professional; player's player

expression / noun:

• hint; do's and don'ts - From English "one-point advice"

noun:

• individual play; one-man effort; non-cooperation; playing on one's own; selfish play

noun:

• method of patterning fabric by pounding on leaves (or flowers, etc.) placed on it, or by rubbing in dye made from these materials - obscure term
• coloring fabric by placing a paper stencil over it and brushing on the dye; fabric colored in such a manner ➜ 摺り込み染め

expression / auxiliary verb:

• auxiliary verb indicating the speaker's personal recollection or something they've heard (e.g. "was", "wasn't it?", "is said to have ...", etc.) - archaism