noun:

• getting frightened even by a slight noise; hearing the enemy in every leaf that rustles; being afraid of one's own shadow - four character idiom

noun:

• single horseman
• wait for one tile to finish one's pair and one's hand; wait for half of one's pair with four melds completed - Mahjong term ➜ 単騎待ち【たんきまち】

noun / ~する noun:

• appointment (to a position, job, etc.); being used for a role; promotion

noun:

• jigo; go game resulting in a tie or a draw

noun:

• capital punishment given personally by a feudal lord after a disrespectful act

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to enclose (a word, letter, symbol, etc.) with a circle

noun:

• peeler (for peeling a label from its base in a barcode printer)

noun:

• short pillar set on a beam to support a ridgepole ➜ うだつが上がらない

expression:

• Even a fool may sometimes come up with a good idea - four character idiom

noun:

• taking a relaxed holiday in a rural area - From English "green tourism"

noun:

• in calligraphy, a brush movement where a horizontal line turns sharply downwards

expression / noun:

• Cleopatra's nose; "a small thing with a huge influence" [figurative]

expression:

• a little learning is a dangerous thing - proverb

noun:

• imminent danger; like a carp stuck in a puddle on the road [literal]

noun:

• partial match; matching a search term with sub-string within a field - IT term

expression / adverb / prefix:

• a lot; to a very great extent; absolutely - slang - abbreviation ➜ 半端ない

adverb:

• anywhere; for all time; to the ends of the earth
• through thick and thin; come hell or high water; to the bitter end; to the utmost
• persistently; stubbornly
• in all respects; on every point
• thoroughly; exhaustively

noun:

• big three dragons; winning hand consisting of pungs or kongs of each of the three types of dragon tiles - Mahjong term

noun:

• seven emotions (in The Book of Rites: joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love, hate, desire); seven emotions (in Buddhism: joy, anger, sorrow, pleasure, love, hate, desire)
• seven effects (of a traditional Chinese medicine)

noun:

• waiting for one tile to finish one's pair and one's hand; waiting for half of one's pair with four melds completed - Mahjong term

noun:

• Oriental odd-tooth snake (Dinodon orientale); Japanese odd-tooth snake

noun:

• Japanese mugwort (Artemisia princeps, Artemisia indica var. maximowiczii)
• general term for plants in the Artemisia genus; mugwort; sagebrush; wormwood

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to fabricate; to invent; to make up (a story); to hoax; to pull a hoax
• to cobble up; to put together in a hurry

expression / ichidan verb:

• to cease being possessed (by the spirit of a fox); to be released from the grasp of the fox spirit; to be exorcised from the fox spirit

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• smallish; on the small side; somewhat small; undersized; small size ➜ 大振り

noun / ~する noun:

• short swing of a bat, racquet, etc.