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

noun:

• rising tone (in Chinese)
• (of a Japanese accent) having a high, flat tone

noun / ~する noun:

• giving a loud pep talk; encouraging (somebody) strongly in a loud voice - four character idiom

noun:

• chief actor in a kabuki play; star actor; leading actors of a troupe - four character idiom

noun:

• (a plain citizen) having no special rank or title; being a common citizen - four character idiom

noun:

• small pillars supporting the main pillars of a torii or a temple gate

expression:

• the autumn sun sets as quickly as a bucket dropping into a well - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• admission by a defendant of the justice of a plaintiff's case; cognovit

expression:

• like water off a duck's back; urine on a frog's face [literal] - colloquialism ➜ 蛙の面に水

expression:

• too late (by a short time); just failed (by a small margin) - colloquialism Antonym: ギリギリセーフ ➜ ぎりぎり・アウト

noun:

• development of a text ➜ 起承転結
• the second line in a four-line Chinese poem

noun:

• coarse silk from the outside of a cocoon (a type of waste thread)

adverb / ~する noun:

• tensely; tightly; tautly - onomatopoeia
• erectly - onomatopoeia
• intuitively; instinctively; immediately - onomatopoeia
• with a burst; with a crack - onomatopoeia

noun:

• forming a chow by picking up a tile discarded by another player - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 碰【ポン】

noun / ~する noun:

• forming a pung by picking up a tile discarded by another player - Mahjong term

prefix noun:

• some (at the start of a number in place of a digit)