noun:

• groups of hiragana characters which are arranged to look like a face

noun:

• land given to someone who has rendered a distinguished service (ritsuryo system)

noun:

• flowers and water offered to Buddha - Buddhism term
• irrigation of a rice field during flowering

noun:

• treating a metal surface to make it look worn and aged; antique finish

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to cut off; to excise; to tear off; to cut out; to whittle down; to tear out; to cut down; to amputate

noun:

• hero; heroine; great person
• Eroica Symphony (Beethoven, 1804)
• Heroic Polonaise (Chopin) - abbreviation

noun / ~の noun:

• black person

noun:

• woman in the nightlife business; demimondaine; geisha and prostitutes - archaism ➜ 玄人

noun:

• person of diminished capacity (e.g. drugs, alcohol, mental retardation, etc.) ➜ 心神耗弱

noun / ~の noun:

• uninhabited area ［じんがい］
• acting inhumanly; inhuman person
• nonhuman life (usu. sentient) ［じんがい］ - slang

noun:

• poor and careless way of living - archaism - male language
• self deprecating first person pronoun

noun:

• person who sees someone else off (e.g. at the airport) ➜ 迎え人

noun:

• careful and thorough person
• older male in an homosexual relationship ［ねんじゃ］ ➜ 若衆【わかしゅ】

expression / noun:

• god-like existence; person far higher (in hierarchy, etc.) than oneself

noun:

• person requiring special help (usu. seniors, infants, etc. in disaster scenarios) ➜ 要援護【ようえんご】

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be visible
• to be clear; to be evident; to be certain; to be definite

noun:

• peacherine; hybrid of a peach and a nectarine; cross between a peach and a nectarine

expression:

• all pain, no gain; doing no good and a lot of harm; having no redeeming features; being a complete disadvantage; a hundred harms and not a single gain [literal] - idiom

expression:

• A smile of a beautiful woman is worth a thousand pieces of gold; enchanting smile of a glamorous woman - four character idiom

noun:

• Inari (god of harvests, Uka-no-Mitama) ➜ 稲魂
• Inari shrine; Fushimi Inari shrine (in Kyoto)
• fox (said to be messengers of Inari) ➜ 狐
• fried tofu (said to be a favourite food of foxes) ➜ 油揚げ
• inarizushi - abbreviation - usually written using kana alone ➜ いなり寿司

noun:

• clerical appearance; appearance of a priest - Buddhism term
• teachings of Buddha; condition of the universe at creation; in the pure land teachings, the name of Amitabha, or prayers to Amitabha; investiture of a Buddhist priest

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to get in; to go in; to come in; to flow into; to set; to set in - mainly used in fixed expressions and compound verbs ➜ 入る【はいる】・気に入る・立ち入る

noun:

• the dots of i's and the crosses of t's; (not neglecting) the slightest details - four character idiom ➜ 一点一画もおろそかにしない

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to put an end to something; to get something over with; to quit something one has been engaged in too long or to an excessive degree

godan ~ぶ verb / intransitive verb:

• to fly (with great force); to blast (e.g. into the sky)
• to lack common sense
• to be extremely surprised (by) - colloquialism

expression:

• you cannot excuse a bad deed with a petty act of benevolence; steal a pig and give the feet for alms [literal] - proverb