noun:

• hakama without gussets (worn by female students and later male students in the Meiji period); hakama without gores - archaism

noun:

• pumice stone
• loose rock; loose stone
• floating group (in the game of go); group without a base

noun:

• cigarette lighter (in an automobile); car cigar lighter

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be possible (in terms of time, money, etc.); to be able (to do); to fit (schedule, budget)

noun:

• four brights (high-scoring combination in hanafuda); four bright cards; four light cards; five hikari cards ➜ 花札

expression / ichidan verb:

• to ensconce oneself (e.g. in a chair); to settle oneself down; to plant oneself

noun:

• commentary (on any of the 384 lines of the hexagrams in the Book of Changes)

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be betrayed unexpectedly; to be stabbed in the back; to be double-crossed

noun:

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

noun:

• rash; eruption (in response to a skin irritant)

suffix noun:

• influence - usu. negative or critical nuance
• crazy about; having an affectation concerning all things surrounding something (esp. a language, a culture, etc.)

noun:

• (Edo-period) roadside teahouse where one would go to relax (in comparison with a restaurant style teahouse and teahouse offering sexual services); tea stall ➜ 色茶屋・料理茶屋

noun:

• being closed; being blocked up; being occupied; hindrance; impedance ➜ 塞がる
• unlucky direction (in Onmyōdō; due to the presence of a god such as Ten'ichijin) ➜ 陰陽道・天一神

noun / ~の noun:

• substitute; replacement; substituting; replacing
• stand-in; proxy; alternate; deputy; relief; successor
• compensation; exchange; return - usu. as 〜代わりに, etc. ➜ 代わりに
• second helping; another cup; seconds - usu. as お代わり ➜ お代わり【おかわり】
• upcoming program; upcoming programme - esp. 替わり, 替り - abbreviation ➜ 替わり狂言

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

• unsteadily (e.g. on one's feet); shakily; staggering; reeling; tottering; dizzily - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• wandering; wavering; aimlessly; without knowing what one is doing; having no goal in mind - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• omitting crucial steps; cutting corners; skimping
• intentional negligence
• tenuki; taking the initiative by ignoring the opponent's last move and playing somewhere else (in go)

noun:

• continued alertness; unrelaxed alertness; remaining on one's guard; being prepared for a counterstroke
• follow-through (e.g. in archery)
• lingering affection; attachment; regret; regrets; reluctance - orig. meaning

noun:

• single-pronged vajra; tokko; dokko; copper or iron implement, pointed at both ends, used in esoteric Buddhist rituals - Buddhism term
• cloth of a tokko pattern

noun:

• dumpling cooked in miso served during the dog days of summer at the imperial court
• accompaniments for a rice dish - secret language of court ladies - archaism - female language ➜ おかず
• wooden pestle - secret language of court ladies - archaism - female language ➜ すりこぎ
• menstrual period - archaism

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to smoke; to breathe in; to inhale
• to suck; to sip; to slurp
• to absorb; to soak up
• to kiss

noun:

• climate of the third month of the lunar calendar in Okinawa (end of the dry season); early summer

adverb / ~の noun:

• more or less; though not quite satisfactorily; after a fashion; pretty much; roughly; so far as it goes

adverb:

• tentatively; for the time being
• just in case
• once

noun:

• Argument for Leaving Asia; editorial written in 1885 by Fukuzawa Yukichi arguing that Japan should align itself with the West rather than China and Korea; Datsu-A Ron

expression / adverb:

• in the confusion of the moment; taking advantage of the confused state of affairs

expression / adverb:

• I pray in earnest that; I beg that; I yearn that

noun:

• arrow view; view on arrow; fragmentary view taken in the direction of an arrow