noun:

• first-year student of an elementary school

noun:

• king of beasts; lion

noun:

• pattern resembling that of arrow feathers

expression / adjective:

• of good character; kindhearted; good-natured

noun:

• sunrise viewed from the top of a high mountain; the rising sun

noun:

• angle of elevation

noun:

• scarcity of eligible women; difficulty for a man to find a woman; woman shortage ➜ 男旱【おとこひでり】

noun:

• Founder of Buddhism

noun:

• factor of production

noun / ~の noun:

• outside of one's area of expertise ➜ 外【がい】

noun:

• language of the enemy

noun:

• city built according to the principles of fengshui ➜ 風水

pre-noun adjectival:

• of the time; at the time ➜ 時【とき】

noun:

• source of amusement; plaything

noun:

• mass or ceremony for the repose of a soul

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• with evident joy of having lived up to one's reputation; having an effect of bolstering one's reputation - four character idiom

particle:

• indicates uncertainty or second hand nature of information quoted ➜ やら

noun:

• worker with a fixed term contract of employment - abbreviation ➜ 期間契約社員

noun:

• traditional Japanese paper made from the fibre of plant species Diplomorpha sikokiana (high quality, glossy) ➜ 雁皮紙

noun:

• one of a pair; one side

noun:

• drowned body of a person (after sumo wrestler Narusegawa Dozaemon) - four character idiom

noun:

• supercluster of galaxies

noun:

• 45th of the sexagenary cycle ➜ 干支

noun:

• merger of towns and villages

noun:

• flood of customers; (doing a) roaring business - four character idiom