noun:

• dhyana-samadhi (meditative concentration) - Buddhism term
• ascetic practice atop a sacred mountain (in Shugendō) ➜ 修験道
• mountain top

noun:

• workshop ［さいくじょ］ ➜ 工房
• Heian and Kamakura-period furniture workshop (established in temples and various government bodies)
• Edo period office which administered tenders for arms, armor, etc.

noun / suffix noun:

• company; association; society - abbreviation ➜ 会社
• regional Chinese god of the earth (or a village built in its honour)

counter / suffix:

• counter for companies, shrines, etc.

noun:

• triton (nucleus of tritium) - Chemistry term
• Triton (son of Poseidon, in Greek mythology)
• Triton (moon of Neptune) - Astronomy term

noun:

• finishing reading

noun / ~の noun:

• non-serialised story (e.g. in a magazine); complete story

noun:

• breaks and pauses (in a sentence) ➜ 句読

noun:

• two reams (of paper); 1000 sheets of paper - ateji for "ream"; also written as 嗹
• stanza; verse - also written as 聯
• tribe (in taxonomy) - Biology term
• quinella; quiniela - abbreviation ➜ 連勝式

suffix noun:

• party; company; group; set

counter:

• counter for things strung in a line, e.g. pearls, dried fish, spans of a bridge, etc. - also written as 聯
• counter for falcons - obsolete term

noun:

• season
• seasonal word or phrase (in haiku)
• year ➜ 一季・半季

expression / noun:

• brothel (esp. one that allows for penetrative intercourse)
• quickie (in a brothel); short sexual act
• just a short moment; a little while; an instant - orig. meaning

noun:

• roadside grass; roadside weeds
• guidance (sometimes esp. referring to guidance in love); guidepost; guide
• Chinese fountain grass (Pennisetum alopecuroides) ➜ 力芝

noun:

• uncle
• ankle (esp. guards in sport)
• anchor (clock component); pallet fork - From French "ancre"

noun:

• spices; condiments; seasoning
• adjuvant (in Chinese medicine); addition of an adjuvant - Medicine term
• meat, fish, vegetables, etc. added to rice or udon (e.g to make gomoku meshi) - Kansai dialect ➜ 五目飯

noun / ~する noun:

• acrobatic barrel-rolling (performed using the feet while lying on the back)
• handing something around (within a fixed group of people in a pre-arranged order)
• handing off a problem to someone else (in order to evade responsibility)

noun:

• small tatami room
• extension of the main room of a home (in traditional palatial-style architecture) ➜ 放ち出
• room smaller than four and a half tatami (in tea ceremony)

noun:

• presence (of a nobleman, the emperor, etc.) ➜ おまえ
• outrider (person riding horseback in the lead position of a cavalcade) ➜ 前駆

noun / suffix noun:

• My Lord; My Lady

noun:

• high-ranking noh actor ➜ 能太夫
• head of a school of noh performance
• high ranking courtesan (esp. in Yoshiwara) (Edo-period)
• jōruri narrator; manzai narrator ➜ 浄瑠璃・万歳【まんざい】
• female role actor in kabuki ➜ 女形
• low ranking priest in a Shinto shrine ➜ 御師
• lord steward (formerly the fifth court rank) ［太夫］

noun:

• voice
• singing (of a bird); chirping (of an insect); hoot
• voice; opinion (as expressed in words); view; wish; attitude; will
• sound
• sense (of something's arrival); feeling - usu. as ～の声を聞く
• voice; voiced sound - Linguistics term

noun:

• cloudiness; cloudy weather
• fog (on a mirror, glasses, etc.); cloud (e.g. in marble); blur; mist; shadow; dimness
• gloom; dejection

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to stop; to stay (e.g. the night); to cease; to put an end to
• to contain; to keep (in position, in place); to limit
• to record (e.g. a fact); to retain ➜ 記憶にとどめる

noun:

• ruby - esp. ルビー
• ruby character; small hiragana or katakana readings of kanji usually above or to the side of the kanji (esp. used by printers and in ref. to printed material) - esp. ルビ
• Ruby (programming language) ［ルビー］ - IT term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to set one's hand to; to start work on
• to embezzle; to use (money obtained in illegal fashion)
• to have sexual relations; to have an affair

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to live; to exist
• to make a living; to subsist
• to be in effect; to be in use; to function
• to come to life; to be enlivened
• to be safe (in baseball, go, etc.)

suffix noun:

• depending on
• as soon as; immediately (upon) - often after the -masu stem of a verb
• in accordance with

noun:

• order; program; programme; precedence
• circumstances; course of events; reason

suffix / ichidan verb:

• to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do ➜ 兼ねない

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features
• to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside
• to hesitate to do something (out of consideration for others)
• to think of the future (as well as the present)

noun:

• sink (e.g. kitchen)

~の noun / noun:

• cruising (e.g. taxi); strolling (entertainer, musician, etc.)

noun:

• washing area in a Japanese-style bath
• back-washing service (in a public bath)
• floating (something on water); setting adrift; washing away

noun:

• living; being alive Antonym: 死に
• freshness; liveliness; vitality
• situation in which a group of stones cannot be captured because it contains two or more gaps (in go)
• stet; leave as-is (proofreading) - usually イキ - usually written using kana alone

prefix:

• damned