noun:

• nucleus (of a project proposal, of a social movement, etc.) - four character idiom

noun:

• being a match for thousands; being a mighty warrior (combatant) - four character idiom

~と adverb:

• (with a) click (e.g. camera shutter); (with a) snap - onomatopoeia

noun:

• prevailing mood of a locality; emotional climate of a district

noun:

• weight (of a fishing net); sinker (on a fishing line)

noun:

• one summer (during which a monk attends a summer retreat) - Buddhism term ➜ 安居【あんご】

noun:

• ending a sentence with a noun or noun phrase ➜ 名詞止め

noun:

• underside of a bird's wing
• lining of a haori ➜ 羽織

noun:

• person with a humble salary; person of a low condition

noun:

• through a wall; on the other side of a wall - usu. as 壁越しに

noun:

• urheimat; original homeland of a people or of a language

noun:

• straight A's; all A's ➜ 全優【ぜんゆう】

noun:

• child (esp. a boy)
• viscount ➜ 子爵
• master (founder of a school of thought, esp. Confucius) - honorific language
• philosophy (branch of Chinese literature); non-Confucian Hundred Schools of Thought writings ➜ 諸子百家
• you (of one's equals) - archaism

suffix noun:

• -er (i.e. a man who spends all his time doing...)

noun:

• large, perforated, turnip-shaped arrowhead cover made of Japanese bigleaf magnolia or paulownia; harmless arrow affixed with such a cover (that whistles when shot and is used to drive off evil spirits) - abbr. of 響目

noun / ~する noun:

• passing through (a tunnel, station, town, etc.); passing by (e.g. of a typhoon); transit
• passage (of a bill, e.g. through parliament); carriage
• passing (an examination, inspection, etc.); clearing

noun:

• not folding on a stitch but placing the fold (2mm) deeper past the stitch, folding the excess back to cover the stitch

noun:

• substitution
• material
• price
• margin (e.g. for stapling, etc.); area required for something
• shiro (unit of land area equal to one-fiftieth of a tan; ~19.83 m.sq.) - archaism ➜ 反【たん】

noun:

• branch of a sacred tree (esp. sakaki) with paper or cotton strips attached (used as an offering) - Shintō term
• sakaki (species of evergreen sacred to Shinto, Cleyera japonica) ➜ 榊

noun:

• main building (of a manor)
• central room (of a house)

noun:

• umbrella carrier; servant who carried a long-handled umbrella for a noble

noun:

• capital (of a column) - Architecture term
• stigma; top part of the pistil in a flower - Biology term

adverb:

• for a moment; even as a joke; even in the slightest degree

noun:

• one's time at a certain point (at various points) of a race

noun:

• taking a story with a grain of salt; hearing only half the story

noun:

• temporary legislation; legislation with a specified duration; act valid for a limited time