noun / ~する noun:

• softening Antonym: 硬化
• softening (of attitude); mollification Antonym: 硬化
• weakening (of the market) Antonym: 硬化
• blanching (e.g. of vegetables; by depriving of light)

noun:

• fault; weakness

noun:

• difficulty; relative difficulty

adjectival noun / noun:

• difficult to understand; unintelligible; abstruse

noun:

• hundreds

noun / ~の noun:

• soft (esp. of softball, tennis, etc.) ➜ 硬式

noun:

• pumpkin (Cucurbita sp.); squash - ぼうぶら is primarily Kansai dialect - From Portuguese "Cambodia abóbora"

noun:

• North-South problem

noun:

• Antarctic Ocean

noun / ~の noun:

• hardness of hearing; bradyacusia; deafness; hearing loss

expression / noun or verb acting prenominally / adverb:

• how (beautiful, etc.)

noun:

• what year; how many years

noun / ~する noun:

• house arrest

noun:

• what time

noun:

• difficult situation

noun:

• how many people; a number of people

expression / noun / ~の noun / adverb:

• some people; a few people; several people

noun:

• southern latitude

noun:

• southern barbarians (formerly used by the Chinese to refer to non-ethnic Chinese to the south) - archaism - derogatory term
• South-East Asia - archaism
• Western Europe (esp. Spain and Portugal, their South-East Asian colonies, and their goods and people arriving in Japan via the colonies) - archaism ➜ 紅毛

prefix:

• exotic (esp. Western European or South-East Asian style)

noun:

• (in dance, puppetry, etc.) thrusting the right foot and right arm forward at the same time (or left foot and left arm) - usu.ナンバ
• food prepared using chili peppers or Welsh onions - abbreviation ➜ 南蛮煮【なんばんに】

noun / ~の noun:

• cartilage ➜ 硬骨

adjectival noun / noun:

• weakness

noun / ~する noun:

• soft-landing

noun:

• Antarctica

noun:

• the South Pole

noun:

• south-southeast; south-south-east