noun:

• orca (Orcinus orca); killer whale; grampus
• mythical carp with the head of a lion and the body of a fish (auspicious protectors of well-being) ［しゃち］ - abbreviation ➜ 鯱【しゃちほこ】

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• differential

noun:

• line concentrator; line multiplexer - IT term

noun:

• food situation

noun:

• ornament representing the Isle of Eternal Youth

noun:

• owner identifier - IT term

noun:

• piece of meat; lump of meat
• the body; the flesh

noun:

• sapwood ➜ 赤身

expression:

• failure teaches success; failure is a stepping-stone to success - proverb

noun:

• mochi received from one's parents after giving birth (trad. eaten in miso soup to improve lactation)

noun:

• social ills

noun:

• debt

noun:

• muscovite; white mica; talc

noun:

• heaps of bodies and streams of blood; fierce battle - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• labialization - Linguistics term

noun:

• pyrotechnic signal; signal flare

noun:

• capital asset pricing model; CAPM

noun / ~する noun:

• ex-officio questioning; police questioning (of a suspicious person); a police checkup - four character idiom

noun:

• type of crime which requires a formal complaint from the victim in order to prosecute - Law term

noun:

• bearing capacity factor

expression:

• going beyond life and death and entering Nirvana - Buddhism term

noun:

• perennial plant

noun / ~する noun:

• measuring weight; weighing
• maximum weight (on a scales) ［ひょうりょう］

noun:

• letter

noun:

• Purple Forbidden Enclosure (group of constellations in the northern sky associated with the emperor)