noun:

• fully raising the curtain when an actor enters or exits (noh)
• curtain with a family crest

noun:

• merchant; store; shop
• merchant house; merchant family

noun:

• kiss-and-ride; dropping a family member off at a station

noun:

• Noraism; women breaking with family and seeking individual freedom (from heroine in Ibsen's "Doll's House")

noun:

• darner (any dragonfly of family Aeshnidae); devil's darning needle
• dragonfly (esp. a large one)

noun:

• Platax (genus of 5 extant species of Indo-Pacific batfish in the spadefish family Ephippidae)

noun:

• potbellied sumo wrestler; wrestler with a big belly ➜ あんこ型【あんこがた】
• goosefish (any fish of family Lophiidae); monkfish; sea devil - orig. meaning ➜ 鮟鱇【あんこう】

noun:

• highest honorifics; honorific language mainly reserved for speaking of or to a member of the Imperial family - Linguistics term

noun:

• gadid (any fish of the family Gadidae, incl. cod, haddock, whiting and pollack)
• Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) ➜ 真鱈【まだら】

noun:

• Pseudocarchariidae; family whose only member is a species of mackerel shark known as the crocodile shark

noun:

• Lamna (genus of mackerel sharks or white sharks with two living species in the family Lamnidae)

noun:

• Cephaloscyllium (genus of catshark known as swellsharks in the family Scyliorhinidae capable of inflating their body)

noun:

• Pseudotriakis (genus of ground shark in the family Pseudotriakidae whose sole member is the false catshark)

noun:

• Mustelus (genus of smooth-hound sharks in the family Triakidae); from the Latin mustela meaning weasel

noun:

• Luvarus (sole genus of perciform fish in the family Luvaridae whose only member is the luvar)

noun:

• everyday robes worn by males of the imperial family, nobility, etc. (from the Heian period onward)

noun:

• Lamnidae; family of large, fast-swimming sharks known as mackerel sharks or white sharks

noun:

• one's wife, children, and other relations; one's whole family - four character idiom

noun:

• adopting a married couple; married couple adopted into the family

expression / godan -いく／-ゆく verb (spec.):

• to be adopted; to enter a family as an adopted child

noun:

• previous generation (e.g. one's parents); family predecessor
• predecessor
• previous age

noun / suffix noun:

• one's family register; one's domicile

suffix noun:

• nationality
• membership (club, party, etc.)

noun:

• tree shrew (order Scandentia, esp. family Tupaiidae) - From Malay "tupai"
• common tree shrew (Tupaia glis)

noun:

• beach flea (any amphipod of family Talitridae); sand flea; sand hopper

noun:

• party (of people); set (of people); clan; family; fellow