noun:

• avatar; incarnation of an immortal being (Hindu)
• icon or representation of a user in a shared virtual reality - IT term

noun / ~する noun:

• being postponed; being shelved; being put on hold - idiom
• putting in storage; thing put in storage - lit. meaning

noun:

• normal style of writing; modern Japanese text
• text written in literary style with mixed kanji and kana (until the Taisho era)

expression / ichidan verb:

• blood flows [literal]
• to have the blood of ... running in one's veins (artist, warrior, etc.); to be born with particular skills, characteristics, etc.; to have something "in one's blood" - usu. ...の血が流れる - idiom

noun:

• dried up waterfall; dry waterfall - esp. 涸滝
• simulated waterfall in a dry garden - esp. 枯滝

noun:

• backward glance; sidelong glance ➜ 尻目にかける
• faceless ghost with an eye in its rump ➜ のっぺらぼう

expression / noun:

• lost twenty years [literal]
• period of economic stagnation in Japan that began ca. 1991 and not over in the 2010s

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to stab each other
• to sacrifice oneself in order to harm someone else

noun:

• roasted barley flour ➜ 麦こがし
• parched flour with various ingredients added and drunk in hot water

expression / ichidan verb:

• to take a solid stance
• to put one's back in it; to exert oneself ➜ 本腰を入れる

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be performed (on the stage)
• to be in the limelight

noun:

• convolution - Mathematics term
• taking in a sail; reefing a sail

noun:

• actual article
• goods in stock; stocks

noun:

• vase - honorific language - Buddhism term
• vessel for water used in an esoteric Buddhist baptism - honorific language - Buddhism term ➜ 灌頂

noun:

• Heian period (794-1185) ➜ 平安時代【へいあんじだい】
• imperial court in the Heian period

noun / ~する noun:

• tiger's howling
• "being out and active in the world (of a hero, etc.)" [figurative]

noun:

• the western part of Japan (esp. Kyushu, but ranging as far east as Kinki) - abbreviation
• western nations (esp. India or Europe)
• 33 temples in the Kinki area containing a statue of Avalokitesvara ➜ 西国三十三所
• a pilgrimage of these temples ➜ 西国巡礼

adverb / ~と adverb:

• (rubbing, twisting) hard; with a squeal; with a creak - onomatopoeia ➜ きゅっと
• (drinking) in one sweep - onomatopoeia ➜ きゅっと

expression / noun:

• having one's own premises ➜ 部屋持ちの親方【へやもちのおやかた】
• Edo-period prostitute successful enough to have her own room in an establishment - abbr. of 部屋持ち女郎

prefix:

• ... years since construction; ... years old (of a building) - before a number of years, e.g. 築十年

suffix:

• built in ... - after a time, e.g. 1980年築

noun / ~する noun:

• breaking ground; ground-breaking (ceremony)

noun:

• New Year's ceremony in which a hoe is used to break ground in a field lying in a lucky direction

expression:

• a wise man changes his mind, a fool never; the wise adapt themselves to changed circumstances - proverb ➜ 君子豹変【くんしひょうへん】
• the wise make no scruple in suddenly changing their demeanor - proverb - colloquialism

noun:

• mess; sorry state; plight; sad sight - derogatory term

suffix:

• -ways; -wards - indicates direction
• in the act of ...; just as one is ... - after the -masu stem of a verb
• manner of ...; way of ... - after the -masu stem of a verb ➜ 様【さま】

noun:

• Buddha figure carved into a rock
• Buddha figure in a cabinet

noun:

• Eurasian water milfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum) - colloquialism ➜ 穂咲の総藻
• aquatic plants such as hornwort that are commonly used in goldfish tanks, etc.