noun:

• doer; performer
• protagonist (in noh or kyogen); hero; leading part; main character - usually written using kana alone
• speculator (in trading) ［仕手］

noun:

• older brother; elder brother - honorific language ➜ お兄さん
• brother (as older-brother figure in friendly and or work relationship)
• young man; buddy; fella; laddie - vocative

noun:

• losing initiative; being forestalled ➜ 先手【せんて】
• second move (in go or shogi); moving second; person with the second move
• rear guard ➜ 後詰め

noun:

• bill; bill of sale; payment invoice
• tab (for later payment); credit
• contact move (in go); direct attack to an enemy stone - usually written using kana alone
• sound effect produced by striking with clappers a wooden board in kabuki - usually written using kana alone
• letter - archaism
• reason; motive; pretext - archaism
• one's fortune; one's luck - archaism

~と adverb / adjectival noun / noun:

• deserted (esp. store, market, town, streets); quiet; still; hushed; empty

adjectival noun / noun:

• inactive (business, trade, etc.); slack; flat; off-season; quiet; dull
• idle; free; unoccupied

noun:

• character; personality; disposition
• character (in a film, novel, comic, etc.)
• letter; character; symbol

adjectival noun / interjection:

• good

noun:

• rock (in rock, paper, scissors game); fist ➜ じゃん拳・ぐう
• goo

noun / ~する noun:

• email - abbreviation ➜ 電子メール

noun:

• mail (usu. in compound words); post ➜ 郵便
• male ➜ 男性・雄【おす】

noun:

• heading

noun / ~する noun:

• header (in soccer)
• butting (in boxing)

noun:

• heel
• heel (e.g. in pro-wrestling); bad guy; player of villain roles

~する noun:

• heal

noun:

• southern barbarians (formerly used by the Chinese to refer to non-ethnic Chinese to the south) - archaism - derogatory term
• South-East Asia - archaism
• Western Europe (esp. Spain and Portugal, their South-East Asian colonies, and their goods and people arriving in Japan via the colonies) - archaism ➜ 紅毛

prefix:

• exotic (esp. Western European or South-East Asian style)

noun:

• (in dance, puppetry, etc.) thrusting the right foot and right arm forward at the same time (or left foot and left arm) - usu.ナンバ
• food prepared using chili peppers or Welsh onions - abbreviation ➜ 南蛮煮【なんばんに】

noun:

• penetration; digging into something
• (in comedy) straight man; retort; quip - usually written using kana alone ➜ 惚け【ぼけ】
• sex; intercourse - idiom

noun:

• reader (person)
• person who reads the cards (in karuta games) ➜ 取り手
• composer (of a poem) - also written as 詠み手 ➜ 詠み手【よみて】

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to induce (somebody to do something); to tempt
• to act toward (somebody in a certain way); to handle (men); to treat
• to send; to forward to

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to change color (esp. leaves, fruit, flowers) (colour)
• to turn crimson (e.g. leaves in autumn); to begin to redden
• to ripen; to grow ripe

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to steal; to rob; to snatch; to pocket; to plunder
• to deceive; to trick; to cheat
• to graze (in passing); to skim; to brush against; to touch lightly
• to appear and quickly disappear (a thought, a smile, etc.); to flit (through one's mind, across one's face)
• to do (something) while no one is looking - often as 目をかすめて
• to hint at; to suggest; to insinuate - archaism

noun:

• anti-wind (device, facility or measure)
• Saposhnikovia divaricata (species of umbellifer used in Chinese medicine)
• Glehnia littoralis (species of umbellifer used in Chinese medicine) ➜ 浜防風

noun:

• official size of a tatami mat for measuring room size (esp. a Kyoto-size tatami mat) ➜ 京間
• basic rhythm (in traditional Japanese music) - Music term
• room (in a brothel) of a prostitute of the highest rank - archaism

noun:

• raised leg; lifting a leg
• upturn (in the market) ［上げ足・上足］ Antonym: 下げ足
• sitting cross-legged - archaism

noun:

• sappanwood (Caesalpinia sappan)
• sappanwood dye (red in colour) (color)
• layered colour (light brown on the front, dark red beneath)

noun:

• carton (e.g. of cigarettes)
• tray (in which money is placed when paying); dish
• pasteboard ［カルトン］ - From French "carton"

noun:

• high monk (esp. one of correct conduct who acts as a role model for his pupils); high priest - abbr. of 阿闍梨耶, from the Sanskrit "ācārya" - honorific language - Buddhism term
• initiate (esp. as a formal rank in Tendai and Shingon) - Buddhism term ➜ 伝法灌頂
• monk who conducts religious services - Buddhism term

noun:

• singer; vocalist
• nagauta singer (in kabuki) ➜ 長唄
• singer of Noh chants ➜ 謡

noun:

• gross (i.e. 12 dozen)
• gross score (in golf)
• gloss (e.g. lip gloss)

noun:

• link; connection; tie; bond; contact

noun / ~の noun:

• filler; stopgap (job, budget, etc.)

noun:

• thickener (e.g. in cooking); thickening; liaison
• hedging; hedge - Finance term ➜ ヘッジ
• overalls; coveralls; boiler suit
• intermission (in kabuki); interval