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

noun:

• flash; flashlight; flashbulb
• flush (poker hand)
• very short scene in a film or TV show - From English "flash"
• newsflash ➜ ニュースフラッシュ
• (Adobe) Flash (animation software)

noun:

• old-fashioned boys' hairstyle
• Meiji period women's hairstyle
• type of dance in kabuki ［揚げ巻・揚巻］
• knots in colour of four cardinal points hanging from the roof above the ring (color) ［揚げ巻・揚巻］ - Sumo term
• constricted tagelus (Sinonovacula constricta); Chinese razor clam - abbreviation ➜ 揚巻貝

noun:

• (fixing) boundaries for religious practices - Buddhism term
• prohibition (of items, people, spirits, etc. that would hinder Buddhist practice) - Buddhism term
• fence between inner and outer sanctums in a temple - Buddhism term
• short two or three-fold lattice around the front desk of a store - archaism ➜ 帳場格子
• barrier; dimensional barrier; containment zone; containment barrier; mystical barrier - esp. in games, manga, etc. - colloquialism

noun:

• between (e.g. two people); face to face
• hindrance; impediment
• arrhythmic section of recitative in noh music - usually written using kana alone - Music term

prefix:

• prefix used for stress or emphasis

counter:

• counter for traditional dance songs

~する verb (irregular):

• to do; to carry out; to perform
• to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into)
• to serve as; to act as; to work as
• to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
• to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as - as 〜にする,〜とする
• to decide on; to choose - as 〜にする

~する verb (irregular) / intransitive verb:

• to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.) - as 〜がする
• to be (in a state, condition, etc.)
• to be worth; to cost
• to pass (of time); to elapse

~する verb (irregular) / transitive:

• to place, or raise, person A to a post or status B - as AをBにする
• to transform A to B; to make A into B; to exchange A for B - as AをBにする
• to make use of A for B; to view A as B; to handle A as if it were B - as AをBにする
• to feel A about B - as AをBにする

suffix / ~する verb (irregular):

• verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs")

auxiliary verb / ~する verb (irregular):

• creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go") ➜ お願いします・御
• to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to; to attempt to - as 〜うとする,〜ようとする ➜ とする

noun:

• model; type (e.g. of machine, goods, etc.)
• type; style; pattern - がた when a suffix ➜ 朝型
• mold (mould); template; model
• kata (standard form of a movement, posture, etc. in martial arts, sport, etc.)
• form (i.e. customary procedure)
• size (i.e. clothing, shoes)
• inch (in diagonal display size)
• (taxonomical) form - obscure term ➜ 品種

noun / suffix noun:

• section (i.e. of text); sentence; passage; paragraph
• phrase - Linguistics term
• verse (of 5 or 7 mora in Japanese poetry; of 4, 5, or 7 characters in Chinese poetry)
• haiku; first 17 morae of a renga, etc.
• maxim; saying; idiom; expression

noun / suffix noun:

• period; time
• age - Geology term
• term (e.g. in office); period
• session (e.g. of parliament)
• stage (e.g. disease)

noun:

• precious stone (esp. jade) - also formerly read as ごく
• egg (sometimes esp. as a sushi topping) - Food term
• stock or security being traded; product being bought or sold
• position (in finance, the amount of a security either owned or owed by an investor or dealer) ➜ 建玉
• geisha
• time charge for a geisha - abbreviation ➜ 玉代
• king (of the junior player) - abbreviation - Shōgi term ➜ 玉将

noun:

• hanging; something hanging (i.e. a flap, lappet, etc.)
• sauce for dipping, etc. made from soy sauce, mirin, vinegar and dashi - also タレ - usually written using kana alone
• (in kendo) loin guard
• kanji radical enclosing the top-left corner of a character

suffix noun:

• -ass; -head - used after a noun or na-adjective indicating someone's nature; also ったれ - derogatory term

~の noun / adjectival noun:

• worn-out; ragged; tattered; battered; scruffy - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / adjectival noun / ~する noun:

• crumbling; dry and crumbly - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• falling (in drops or clumps); scattering - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun:

• (physically or mentally) worn-out; exhausted - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• (coming to light) one after another - onomatopoeia

noun:

• starting; engaging
• expenses; costs - esp. 掛かり, 掛り
• attack (esp. a corner approach in the game of go) - esp. 掛かり, 掛り; often as カカリ ➜ カカリ
• barb
• charge; duty; person in charge; official; clerk ［掛かり・掛り］ - esp. for government offices, railways, etc. ➜ 係【かかり】

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

noun:

• horsepower; HP ➜ 馬力
• home page ［ＨＰ］ - IT term ➜ ホームページ
• half-pipe (i.e. in snowboarding) ［ＨＰ］ ➜ ハーフパイプ
• HP (i.e. a 'hit point' in a role-playing game) ［ＨＰ］
• harp ［ｈｐ］ ➜ ハープ

adverb / ~と adverb:

• turning around (once) - onomatopoeia
• suddenly; abruptly
• completely (wrapped in something); quickly (unwrapping something)
• beautiful, round (eyes)

noun:

• flail (for threshing grain) - abbreviation ➜ くるり棒

noun:

• circle (sometimes used for zero) ➜ 丸【まる】
• 'correct' (when marking) ➜ 二重丸【にじゅうまる】
• symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position, or because of censorship) ➜ 〇〇【まるまる】
• period; full stop ➜ 句点
• maru mark; semivoiced sound; p-sound ➜ 半濁点