noun:

• taxing one's ingenuity in devising something; agonizing over designing or creating something; making strenuous efforts to devise good ways and means to do something - four character idiom

noun:

• security police; special police
• special; TV special ➜ スペシャル
• standard-playing (record); SP ➜ ＬＰ
• shore patrol
• sales promotion ➜ セールスプロモーション
• save point - Baseball term ➜ セーブポイント
• short program (in figure skating) - Sports term ➜ ショートプログラム
• structured programming - IT term ➜ 構造化プログラミング

noun:

• Grand Tutor (second of the top three civil positions of the Zhou Dynasty)
• Minister of the Left (official in Nara and Heian periods) ➜ 左大臣

noun / ~の noun:

• place where things are sold; point of sale; POS; sales floor; counter (in shop)

noun:

• favorable time to sell; good time to sell ➜ 売り時・買い場

adverb / ~と adverb:

• creaking; squeaking - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / adjectival noun:

• packing in tightly; cramming; squeezing - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• hard (pressing, tying, twisting, etc.); tightly; with force - onomatopoeia

adverb / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• going hard (on someone); tormenting (e.g. with questions) - onomatopoeia

particle:

• or something; for instance ... (though there are other suitable options)
• ... or ... - usu. in the form ...なり...なり
• as soon as; right after - after dictionary form verb
• while still; with previous state still in effect - after past tense verb

noun / ~する noun:

• getting angry (with someone who is angry with oneself); snapping back (at someone); lashing out (despite being in the wrong) - slang ➜ キレる

noun:

• parhelion; sun dog; sundog (bright spot on either side of the sun caused by refraction of sunlight through ice crystals in the atmosphere) ➜ 幻月

noun:

• paraselene; moon dog; moondog (bright spot on either side of the moon caused by refraction of moonlight through ice crystals in the atmosphere) ➜ 幻日

noun:

• Azuma coat; type of coat worn over a kimono; popular in the middle of the Meiji era

noun:

• New Year food for entertaining a guest served in multilayered lacquered boxes
• Kansai New Year decoration (made from food) - Edo name - archaism ➜ 蓬莱飾り【ほうらいかざり】

noun:

• Edo miso; type of miso produced in the Tokyo area since the Edo period (usu. low-salt and made with rice koji) ➜ 味噌

noun:

• smack in the middle; perfect strike; bull's eye - colloquialism ➜ ど・ストライク

adjectival noun:

• perfect (for something or someone); just right; just the way one likes it - colloquialism

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to curry favour; to butter up; to fawn over; to humour someone (humor); to put in a good mood (e.g. a baby) - obscure term ➜ 機嫌を取る

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to curry favour; to butter up; to fawn over; to humour someone (humor); to put in a good mood (e.g. a baby) - obscure term ➜ 機嫌をとる

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to gain on; to put pressure on; to close in on

ichidan verb:

• to be able to be expressed in words; to be sayable ➜ 言い表す

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to deduct; to take away; to dock
• to make allowances for something; to bear something in mind

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to ebb and flow

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to ride past (one's stop); to overshoot
• to climb over; to get over ➜ 乗り越える
• to overtake (in a vehicle); to pass

noun:

• the Avici hell, the eighth and most painful of the eight hells in Buddhism; Buddhist hell of uninterrupted suffering - four character idiom

noun:

• food (on a table) (esp. a small Japanese table); dinner; cover (in a restaurant) ➜ 膳
• cook; chef; person who prepares food

noun:

• substitute national holiday; day off in lieu of a national holiday that falls on a Sunday; compensatory holiday

noun:

• half interchange (an interchange that lacks an exit or an entrance in either or both directions)

noun:

• simple type of clothing consisting of a large piece of cloth with a hole in the middle for the head

noun:

• Qi (kingdom in China during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Period of the Warring States); Ch'i