noun:

• Varecia; genus comprising the ruffed lemurs

noun:

• pen spinning; spinning a pen around between the fingers

noun:

• novel of formation (education); novel of character development; novel which traces the intellectual, moral, spiritual or social development of a young person; Bildungsroman - four character idiom

expression:

• cannot live even a minute without someone or something; meaning the world to one

noun:

• Urotrichus; genus containing the Japanese shrew mole

noun:

• stepping outside to cool down; cooling down outside the gate - archaism

noun:

• Musca (constellation); the Fly - Astronomy term

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• as if; the very thing itself

expression / noun:

• demonym; name used to refer to the residents of a country, region, etc.

noun:

• 'ra'-removed; the practice of skipping the 'ra' from the 'rareru' verb conjugation - abbreviation ➜ ら抜き言葉

~と adverb / adverb:

• with a roaring sound (of water or wind); sound of feet stamping on the ground - onomatopoeia

interjection:

• whoa! (command used to stop or quieten down a horse, etc.) ➜ どう

noun:

• triple run; winning hand containing the same chow in each of the three suits - Mahjong term

noun:

• setting moon; moon setting in the West

noun:

• lower seat; seat at bottom of the table

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to turn right; to turn to the right

noun:

• Aves; class of vertebrates comprising the birds

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to hold fast to one's ways; to be overly conservative; to not get with the times; to guard the tree stub [literal] - from a fable appearing in the Han Feizi - idiom

expression:

• I am content with what I am (have); Rich is the person who is content with what he is - four character idiom

noun:

• Diet members caucus; caucus of the Diet

noun / ~の noun:

• left (esp. in vertical Japanese writing); the following

noun:

• off grounds; outside the premises

expression:

• remote; out-of-the-way

noun:

• bittern; concentrated solution of salts (esp. magnesium chloride) left over after the crystallization of seawater or brine

noun:

• semantics; the study of meaning - Linguistics term

noun:

• direct sunlight; direct rays of the sun