noun:

• student studying abroad at government expense

adverb:

• at the long end (e.g. hold); on the long side (e.g. cut) ➜ 長め

noun:

• fight in which things are thrown at each other (e.g. pie fight)
• pitching duel - Baseball term

noun:

• vents at the hips of a pair of hakama

noun:

• tough at heart

noun:

• at boot time - IT term

noun:

• Buddhist service in which the eight scrolls of the Lotus Sutra are read one scroll at a time (one morning and one evening reading each day for four days with a different reciter each time)

noun:

• being bad at communication; being unsociable - abbreviation - colloquialism ➜ コミュニケーション障害

noun:

• 1st course at a banquet

noun:

• targeted at individuals

expression / ichidan verb:

• to look angrily at; to look with anger in one's eyes - idiom

noun:

• form of poetry found on the stone Buddha Foot monument at Yakushi Temple in Nara (following a 5-7-5-7-7-7 moraic pattern)

noun:

• telegram sent at night (usually to make use of a reduced rate)

noun:

• arriving at the same moment

~と adverb / ~の noun:

• at the critical moment; when it counts - often used as ここぞというとき or ここぞとばかり

noun:

• lining at the bottom of a kimono

noun / ~する noun:

• evildoers being rampant and roaming at will - four character idiom

noun:

• at the outset; at the very beginning; in the first place; to begin (start) with; first and foremost - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• smiling while looking at; enjoying reading - often ご笑覧ください, etc. - humble language

noun:

• purificatory font at shrines and temples
• kitchen
• cupboard
• room adjacent to a tea ceremony room, where utensils are washed
• vendor of drinking water
• building for taking refuge during a flood

expression:

• at bat

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to try out the food at various restaurants - colloquialism ➜ 食べ歩き

noun:

• folding bench at the front of traditional townhouses ➜ 町家【まちや】

noun:

• companies exploiting debtors by forcing them to make expensive credit card purchases and buying the purchases at a fraction of the price

noun:

• kanji "mountain" radical at top