expression / adverb:

• indiscriminately; without consideration; irrespective of the occasion; paying no attention to the feelings or expectations of those nearby

noun:

• astronomical observation; shooting the sun

noun:

• aiueo-order; order of the kana syllabary

noun:

• Hemipristis; genus of the weasel shark family Hemigaleidae

noun:

• mouth shaped like a kana "he" character; mouth turned down at the corners ➜ への字に結んだ口

noun / ~する noun:

• winning one's first election; being elected for the first time

noun:

• communications partner; entity at the end of a communication - IT term

expression / temporal noun:

• another day; the next day

noun:

• Ctenophora; phylum comprising the comb jellies

noun:

• ancient ways; the feelings of the ancients

noun:

• with no one upon whom to depend; utter loneliness; the lonely and the helpless; people who have no kith or kin - four character idiom

noun:

• Chongqing government; Kuomintang government based in Chongqing during the Second Sino-Japanese War

noun:

• Anhimidae; family comprising the screamers (birds)

noun:

• various deities; the gods - Buddhism term

noun:

• left breast; left side of the chest

noun:

• new straw; straw from the current year
• rice seedlings boiled and dried and then tied into a woman's hair to chase evil spirits away

noun:

• whole family; all the members of one's family

noun:

• Coris; genus of wrasses in the family Labridae

noun:

• Artiodactyla; order comprising the even-toed ungulates

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to butter up; to try to get on the good side of

noun:

• concealed pung; concealed three-of-a-kind - Mahjong term ➜ 刻子

noun / ~の noun:

• House of Representatives and House of Councillors; both houses of the Diet ➜ 衆参両院【しゅうさんりょういん】

godan ~る verb:

• to push and push; to keep pushing to the end

noun:

• bamboo wall-top spikes (or wood, iron); spikes placed at the top of a wall to repel thieves

noun:

• left puppeteer (bunraku); manipulates the left arm ➜ 三人遣い