noun:

• civil legal aid system (e.g. legal aid for poor people)

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• light (esp. in chemistry) ➜ 軽質油

noun:

• autopurificatory activity (in the natural world) - four character idiom

noun:

• ordinary person (usu. in neg. sentences)

noun:

• free association (in psychology)

noun:

• secondary grave (usu. for disinterred and washed bones); reburial grave

noun:

• cyclostomes (eel-like jawless fishes with round mouths used for sucking) ➜ 無顎類

noun:

• (in Chinese history) study of ancient texts

noun:

• cigarette lighter socket (in an automobile); cigarette lighter receptacle - abbreviation ➜ シガーライターソケット

noun:

• dawn (sometimes esp. in ref. to the 16th day of the lunar month onward) ➜ 夜明け

noun / ~する noun:

• depositing blood (in a blood bank)

noun:

• landing place (for aircraft)
• common ground; compromise; agreement; conclusion

noun:

• tongs (esp. for incense or for use in a Buddhist temple)

noun:

• Bodianus (genus of wrasses in the family Labridae)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to dunk (e.g. food in a drink)

noun:

• whitenose shark (Nasolamia velox, species found in the eastern Pacific)

noun:

• the boar, deer and butterfly cards (high-scoring combination in hanafuda) ➜ 花札

noun:

• middle jiao (in traditional Chinese medicine); middle burner

noun:

• fishing baskets (esp. for crabs, lobsters, etc.); lobster pots

noun:

• Tet Offensive (North Vietnamese offensive launched in January 1968)

noun / ~の noun:

• all-time low (e.g. in trading, shopping); record low; new low Antonym: 最高値

noun:

• Vega (star in the constellation Lyra); Alpha Lyrae - Astronomy term ➜ ベガ

noun:

• dasabhumi (forty-first to fiftieth stages in the development of a bodhisattva) - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• tide watching (esp. in the Naruto Strait); watching the tide ➜ 鳴門【なると】

noun:

• universal life force (the source of animation for all things)
• free spirit (i.e. a mindset unencumbered with worldly concerns)