noun:

• shoryuken; uppercut move in the Street Fighter video game series

noun / ~の noun:

• very far away; the heavenly shores - four character idiom

noun:

• my mixi; refers to the 'friend list' on mixi (or people on that list) ➜ マイミク

noun:

• half lotus position (meditation posture); sitting with one foot placed on the opposite thigh - abbreviation ➜ 半跏趺坐

noun:

• dispute over water rights; dispute over the distribution of water into paddies during the summer (in rural areas) ➜ 水喧嘩

noun:

• redology; study of the novel Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin, one of China's four great classical novels

expression / noun:

• calm before a storm; lull before the storm

noun / ~の noun:

• backlighting; having a light source in front of the camera lens in photography - abbreviation ➜ 逆光線

noun:

• opening section of a Chinese poem or essay (in which the topic is broached); broaching the topic of a poem or essay in its opening lines

noun:

• Clarke number; abundance of a chemical element in the Earth's crust, as calculated by geochemist Frank Wigglesworth Clarke - Geology term

noun:

• non-store app; smartphone app not distributed through the official smartphone stores

noun:

• Hadith; tradition related to the words and deeds of Muhammad - From Arabic "hadit"

noun:

• year-end bonus; bonus salary given at the end of the year

noun:

• Japan; the (Japanese) empire

noun:

• all people; the whole nation

noun:

• living in seclusion; retired from the world - four character idiom

noun:

• forelock; hair on top of the head

noun:

• embouchure; position and use of the lips, tongue, and teeth in playing a wind instrument - From French
• mouthpiece of a musical instrument

noun:

• buddy system; the idea that divers always dive with a buddy to assist each other

noun:

• minimum limit; the lowest degree (possible, allowable, etc.)

noun:

• concerning Taiwan; concerning the Republic of China

noun / ~する noun:

• Zen meditation; meditative consultation with the head abbot

expression:

• let bygones be bygones; the past is the past, the present is the present [literal] - proverb

noun:

• penalty shoot-out; kicks from the penalty mark - Sports term

noun:

• heuriger; type of Austrian wine tavern where wine-growers serve the most recent year's wine