noun:

• (small) red dragonfly
• darter (dragonfly of genus Sympetrum, esp. the autumn darter, Sympetrum frequens)

noun:

• Konaki Jijii (a ghost in Japanese folklore with the shape of a small old man and having a baby's cry)

noun:

• (finger) ring ➜ 指輪
• metal thimble ➜ 指貫【ゆびぬき】
• ring used to constrict a finger to make it small and beautiful - archaism

noun:

• jujube (Ziziphus jujube); Chinese date; red date
• small tea caddy (tea ceremony)

noun:

• knitted or crocheted small stuffed animal or anthropomorphic creature; knitted stuffed toy

expression:

• still having a very small chance; still having a tiny shred of hope - idiom

noun:

• man who scatters beans on Setsubun ➜ 節分
• small man; little man
• lewd little man

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to unravel; to untie; to untangle; to loosen
• to break into small pieces (of fish, meat, etc.)
• to relax; to ease

noun:

• small fish sliced open and pickled in a mixture of vinegar, sake, and salt - Food term
• seafood pickled in soy (esp. squid) - Food term

noun:

• small dried sardines or anchovies (gomame) cooked almost to dryness in soy sauce and sugar ➜ 古女【ごまめ】
• tilling a rice field; person who tills a paddy field

noun:

• chopped kabayaki eel on rice; eel fillets cooked over charcoal with soy flavoured sauce, cut in small pieces and serve on rice - Food term

noun:

• mixed vegetable and seafood tempura ［かき揚げ・掻き揚げ・掻揚げ・掻揚］
• something pulled upwards
• small castle with a simple earthen-walled moat ［かき揚げ・掻き揚げ・搔き揚げ］ - abbreviation ➜ かき揚げ城【かきあげじろ】
• turning up a lamp wick

noun:

• mountain mass; small mountain range; group of mountains that are not part of a large mountain range - obscure term ➜ 山塊

adjective:

• thin - in ref. to objects, not to people
• pale; light; faint
• watery; thin; dilute
• weak (taste, etc.); little (affection, etc.) not much (of a presence)
• slim (probability, etc.); small
• sparse; patchy; scattered

noun:

• food (on a table) (esp. a small Japanese table); dinner; cover (in a restaurant) ➜ 膳
• cook; chef; person who prepares food

adverb:

• sound of something small rolling once (often into a hole) - onomatopoeia
• easily
• suddenly
• completely (e.g. forgetting); utterly
• disappointing
• curling up into the fetal position; going to sleep suddenly

noun:

• small opening in the side of some traditional Japanese clothing for women and children (e.g. kimono, yukata) (located where the sleeve meets the bodice, below the armpit)

expression:

• person who swaggers about under borrowed authority; small man acting arrogantly through borrowed authority; a fox that borrows the authority of a tiger [literal] - idiom

noun:

• tatami chair; legless chair; small, legless chair used while sitting on tatami

noun:

• dilapidated house; tumbledown house; hovel; miserable shack
• my house; my home - humble language
• small resting place comprising four pillars and a roof (with no walls)

adverb / ~と adverb:

• sound of something striking repeatedly (e.g. wooden clappers) - onomatopoeia
• something small hopping repeatedly; touching lightly and repeatedly - onomatopoeia

noun:

• punctuation marks such as the dakuten
• Chonchon; South American mythical bird - From

adverb:

• great many; ever so many
• any number; as few or as many (as you like); whether large or small - preceding よい, 構わない, etc.

noun:

• opportunity; chance; occasion; time - esp. 折
• folding; fold; pleat; crease - esp. 折り
• small food box (wooden or cardboard) - esp. 折り

counter:

• counter for folds
• counter for items (esp. food) packed in an oribako ➜ 折り箱

noun:

• Chagu Chagu Horse Festival (of Iwate Prefecture)
• small wooden horse toy with bells on its neck (made in Iwate Prefecture)

noun:

• S; s
• south - abbreviation
• sulfur - abbreviation ➜ 硫黄

prefix:

• nth year in the Shōwa era (1926.12.25-1989.1.7) - abbreviation ➜ 昭和

noun:

• small - abbreviation
• second - abbreviation
• subject (grammar) - abbreviation ➜ 主語
• sadist; sadistic - abbreviation Antonym: Ｍ
• sister; female partner in a homosexual relationship - abbreviation