noun:

• spreading baseless information to benefit one's own position in the stock market (etc.) - From English "position talk"
• statement that is beneficial to oneself

adverb:

• what street? (esp. in Kyoto and Sapporo)
• what article? (in a law)
• how can?; cannot possibly; there is no way - the 条 in 何条 is an ateji - archaism

noun:

• putting on a brave face; put-on cheeriness; pretending one is fine; show of courage; bravado; Dutch courage

noun:

• an utai (noh chant) piece for recitation
• accompanied singing in which the singing is emphasized over the instrumental part (emphasised)

expression:

• Defeat is inevitable for an overconfident army; Being arrogant and overconfident inevitably leads to defeat (failure); Pride comes before a fall - four character idiom

noun:

• nailist; someone whose occupation is to cut any type of nail, apply artificial nails (or "nail art") and care for nails

noun:

• pung (or kong) of east tiles when east is both the round wind and one's seat wind (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 連風牌

noun:

• pung (or kong) of south tiles when south is both the round wind and one's seat wind (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 連風牌

noun:

• pung (or kong) of west tiles when west is both the round wind and one's seat wind (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 連風牌

noun:

• pung (or kong) of north tiles when north is both the round wind and one's seat wind (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 連風牌

noun:

• no game; game that is stopped before it can be considered an official game (e.g. due to rainout) - Baseball term

noun:

• part of a kanji for which the role is primarily to represent the meaning (as opposed to the pronunciation) ➜ 音符

noun:

• practice of buying a bottle of spirits at a bar which is then kept there for the customer - From English "bottle keep"

noun:

• woman so glamorous as to bring ruin to a country (castle) as its king (lord) is captivated by her beauty; femme fatale - four character idiom ➜ 傾城傾国

noun:

• woman so glamorous as to bring ruin to a country (castle) as its king (lord) is captivated by her beauty; femme fatale - four character idiom ➜ 傾国傾城

noun:

• courteous language (i.e. humble language in which an action or object is not directed toward the listener or a third party) ➜ 謙譲語ＩＩ

noun:

• woman so glamorous as to bring ruin to a country (castle) as its king (lord) is captivated by her beauty; femme fatale - four character idiom ➜ 傾城傾国【けいせいけいこく】

noun:

• the beginning (as in "this is only the beginning") ［序の口］
• lowest division in sumo - Sumo term

noun:

• uxoriousness; being easy on one's wife; man who is easy on his wife - humorous term ➜ サイコロジー

noun / ~する noun:

• possession (of what is required); fulfilment (of conditions); being equipped with; being endowed with

expression / noun:

• beginning to learn (something) when one is old; not being too old to learn - idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to muster one's courage; to resolve oneself; to ready oneself for what is to come - obscure term ➜ 覚悟を決める

expression:

• it is certain true that ... (but); you can't argue that it's not ... (but)

noun:

• friend of a mother who is also a mother; mothers who are friends

expression:

• our debt to our parents is higher than the mountain and deeper than the sea [literal] - proverb