noun:

• palace examination (national Chinese civil servant examination based largely on classic literature); someone who has passed this examination ➜ 科挙
• examination for promotion in the Ministry of Ceremonies (based largely on political duties and Chinese classics); someone who has passed this examination ➜ 式部省

noun:

• height; stature
• length (esp. of clothing)
• all (one has); everything ➜ 思いのたけ・心のたけ
• magnificence (of a waka poem, etc.)

noun:

• cover; front (e.g. for illegal activities); magic cloak of invisibility
• Dendropanax trifidus (species of flowering plant) - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• bryophyte (any of three groups of non-vascular land plants, incl. mosses, hornworts and liverworts)

noun:

• dish of pickled skipjack tuna entrails sometimes mixed with sake, honey, mirin and onions (specialty of Kochi Prefecture)

noun:

• recitation of Amida Buddha's name on a specified day and time period (practice of Pure Land Buddhists) - Buddhism term

noun:

• ukiyo-e print produced with various shades of indigo (and sometimes small amounts of vermilion or yellow) ➜ 藍摺

noun:

• Act on Payment of Relief Benefit for Victims, etc. of Crimes Committed by Aum Shinrikyo (2008)

noun:

• Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan; group of Japanese and foreign Catholics who were crucified in 1597 at Nagasaki

noun:

• head (of a household, etc.); leader; master
• owner; proprietor; proprietress
• subject (of a rumour, etc.); doer (of a deed)
• guardian spirit (e.g. long-resident beast, usu. with mystical powers); long-time resident (or employee, etc.)
• husband

pronoun:

• you - familiar language ➜ おぬし

noun / ~の noun:

• main body (of troops)
• nucleus; backbone; mainstay; key figure
• center field; centre field; center fielder; centre fielder

noun:

• athlete competing in the middle-number match in a team competition, i.e. second in 3-on-3, third in 5-on-5 (kendo, judo, etc.) ➜ 先鋒【せんぽう】

noun / ~の noun:

• medium-level; mid-level; midsize

godan ~ぐ verb / transitive:

• to tear off; to peel off; to rip off; to strip off; to skin; to flay; to bark
• to strip of (clothes, rank, etc.); to deprive of; to divest of ［はぐ］

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be clear (of a sight, sound, colour, etc.); to be bright; to be vivid; to be crisp
• to be clear-headed; to be alert; to be on the ball; to be wide awake
• to look upbeat; to be perky; to be cheerful - often as 冴えない
• to master (a skill); to excel at; to cleanly execute
• to be satisfying - often as 冴えない ➜ 冴えない
• to become frigid; to become intensely cold - original meaning; now somewhat old-fashioned

adjectival noun:

• free (of restraint, controls, etc.)
• free (of cost)
• freelance - abbreviation ➜ フリーランス
• one-size ➜ フリーサイズ

noun / ~する noun:

• division of labor; division of labour; specialization; specialisation; assembly-line production

noun / ~する noun:

• vindication of honour; vindication of honor; making up for loss; revenge

expression / godan ~る verb:

• by means of; due to; because of; according to

noun / ~する noun:

• condensation (of ideas, emotions, etc.)
• condensation (of a vapour or gas) - Physics term

noun / ~の noun:

• end; close; conclusion

noun:

• end of a game of go, shogi, etc.

noun:

• display; array (of things); succession (of things) - From English "on parade"

noun:

• strength and weakness; (degree of) strength
• stress (of a sound); loudness

noun:

• all kinds of things; various things; large number of people

noun:

• pleasant sound; crack (of a baseball bat); roar (of a motor)

noun / ~の noun:

• diplomatic turn of phrase; diplomatic language; tactful way of expressing something - four character idiom

noun:

• outburst of cicadas singing; chorus of cicadas - idiom