noun:

• associate (of arts); associate's degree (in arts)

noun:

• Ryukyu shrew (Crocidura orii); Orii's shrew

noun:

• People's Honour Award (honor); National Honour Award

noun:

• policeman; official in charge of imprisoning offenders - archaism
• art of defeating (and capturing) an opponent with one's bare hands - Martial Arts term

noun:

• Chinese lizard's tail (Saururus chinensis)
• 11th day after the summer solstice; last seed-sowing and rice-planting day

noun:

• dispel (esp. magic or potion used to return one's character to normal status in an RPG, etc.)

noun:

• large text that appears in ads or brochures to catch the reader's attention (in copywriting) - From English "catch copy"

noun:

• getting free admission on the strength of one's name; being let in somewhere because one is recognized

noun:

• decorative gauze strap that hangs from the front left side of the kohimo when tying closed one's hanpi ➜ 小紐

noun:

• someone from one's own province (China) ➜ 外省人
• someone whose ancestors had lived in Taiwan before the Kuomintang related immigration wave ➜ 外省人

noun:

• decorative paper envelope for giving New Year's gifts (usu. money given to children) and congratulatory gifts ➜ お年玉【おとしだま】

expression / adjective:

• unable to clear away one's ill feeling; not able to do anything (about...)

noun:

• menko; children's game in which thick circular or rectangular cards are slapped down on the ground to overturn other cards - Ōsaka dialect ➜ めんこ

noun / suffix:

• stuffing; packing - づめ when a suffix

noun:

• end (esp. the foot of a bridge)
• lowest-ranking guest at tea ceremony
• tea master
• endgame (esp. in shogi or used figuratively)
• sweet eel sauce - abbreviation
• middle-aged woman - archaism

suffix noun:

• appointment to a particular workplace
• using as the sole ground of judgement (judgment)
• continuing; keep doing for period of time - after the -masu stem of a verb

adjective:

• light; well-lit; well-lighted
• bright (of a colour); brightly-coloured; brightly-colored
• cheerful; bright; spirited; sunny (e.g. disposition)
• encouraging (for the future of a project, etc.); promising; of fair prospects
• familiar (with); knowledgeable (about); well versed (in) - as 〜に明るい
• fair (e.g. politics); clean; impartial

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to overcome (opposition); to push past; to force one's way
• to press and cut

noun:

• tip of one's hand
• cheap trick; superficial wit; superficial cleverness

~の noun:

• lukewarm; cheap; perfunctory; makeshift; shortsighted

noun:

• tooth hardening toy (for infants); teether; teething ring
• tooth hardening meal; New Year's feast

noun:

• bringing one's child to the local park to play for the first time

expression:

• after the decimal point; below the decimal

expression / ~の noun:

• of no account; beneath one's notice

noun / adjectival noun / adverb:

• one's heart is filled with even deeper emotion; feeling the emotion all the more deeply - four character idiom

noun:

• tiger's tail
• gooseneck loosestrife (species of flowering plant, Lysimachia clethroides) ➜ 岡虎の尾
• Asplenium incisum (species of spleenwort) ➜ 虎の尾羊歯

noun:

• flowers that bloom in the heavens; paper flowers scattered before the Buddha's image - Buddhism term

expression / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• being painfully-true (e.g. reprimand); making one's ears burn; striking home (e.g. remark) ➜ 耳が痛い

noun:

• division of the Buddha's 50-year teachings into five periods (theory of the Tendai sect) - Buddhism term ➜ 五時八教