noun:

• barehanded; having no wealth or position to rely on (aside from one's own resourcefulness) (when embarking on something) - four character idiom

noun:

• babies born on October 10, supposedly conceived on New Year's Day
• normal gestation time (i.e. 9 months)

noun:

• calculator with postfix notation logic; calculator with suffix notation logic; calculator with reverse-Polish notation logic - IT term

noun:

• legume (esp. edible legumes or their seeds, such as beans, peas, pulses, etc.); beans; peas
• soya bean (Glycine max); soybean; soy ➜ 大豆
• female genitalia (esp. the clitoris) - colloquialism
• kidney - colloquialism - usually written using kana alone - Food term

prefix noun:

• miniature; tiny
• child

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to move up (e.g. date, rank, order); to be advanced Antonym: 繰り下がる
• to be carried (of a number in addition) - Mathematics term ➜ 繰り下がる

expression / adverb:

• naturally; not surprisingly; it should be appreciated that; understandably; as a matter of course; as is obvious; as will be understood

noun / ~する noun:

• living on the street; life on the streets; homelessness - four character idiom

noun:

• on-the-spot inspection; on-site inspection

godan ~ぐ verb / intransitive verb:

• to make noise; to make racket; to be noisy
• to rustle; to swoosh
• to make merry
• to clamor; to clamour; to make a fuss; to kick up a fuss
• to lose one's cool; to panic; to act flustered
• to feel tense; to be uneasy; to be excited

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to have an itch to; to have a craving for; to have an urge to; to have a desire for; to be eager to; to want to

noun / ~の noun:

• flowers in full bloom; time of year in which flowers are in full bloom
• the age at which someone (esp. a woman) is at the peak of their beauty
• booming or peaking (in popularity)

particle:

• -ing and -ing (e.g. "coming and going") - as …たり…たり, after the ren'youkei forms of multiple verbs
• doing such things as... - used adverbially
• expresses a command - as …たり…たり at sentence-end, after the ren'youkei forms of a repeated verb

auxiliary verb:

• to be ［たり］ - from とあり, after a noun - archaism ➜ たる
• indicates completion or continuation of an action ［たり］ - from 〜てあり, after the ren'youkei form of a verb - archaism

noun:

• layman (esp. as opposed to a Buddhist monk); laity; man of the world; the world
• local manners; modern customs

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• common; popular
• vulgar; low Antonym: 雅【が】

noun:

• women working in military brothels (esp. those forced into prostitution as a form of sexual slavery by the Japanese military during WWII); comfort women [literal] - euphemism ➜ 従軍慰安婦

suffix:

• our gracious (e.g. Queen); honorific that attaches to name of a person or thing that has bestowed grace or favour upon you

noun:

• companies exploiting debtors by forcing them to make expensive credit card purchases and buying the purchases at a fraction of the price

noun:

• "benefit-your-locality" tax scheme; system in which taxpayers can choose to divert part of their residential tax to a specified local government

noun:

• setting off the night before one normally would have departed, travelling in a different direction, spending the night there, and leaving for one's destination in the morning (done to avoid travelling in an unlucky direction; a common practice during the Heian period) - archaism ➜ 方塞がり・方違へ所

noun:

• setting off the night before one normally would have departed, travelling in a different direction, spending the night there, and leaving for one's destination in the morning (done to avoid travelling in an unlucky direction; a common practice during the Heian period) - archaism ➜ 方塞がり

noun:

• desktop
• desktop computer - IT term
• desktop of a computer (the primary screen for most graphical-based computer operating systems) - IT term

expression:

• being jealous of somebody over something but also thinking they should be sentenced to death over it (esp. of male teachers having sexual relations with their students) - slang - humorous term

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to go on tour; to be on the road (e.g. theatre troupe) (theater)

expression:

• blue are the hills that are far away; the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence; far away smells of flowers; close up smells of dung [literal] - proverb

noun:

• miniature shrine with double doors (used to store important Buddhist items such as sutras, etc.)
• cabinet with double doors (used by the nobility to store books, etc.) ➜ 厨子棚
• (in Okinawa) carved and decorated stone container for storing the bones of one's ancestors ➜ 厨子甕

noun:

• getting one's finger caught (e.g. in a door); getting one's finger pinched; jamming one's finger in a door ➜ 指を詰める
• yakuza finger-cutting ritual