丁

nakiri knife; vegetable knife

Card games

oicho-kabu (traditional gambling game)

tuna knife

the most trying spot or period; the most difficult period

misbound book; incorrectly collated book; book with pages out of order

book with missing pages

lilac (Syringa vulgaris)

all-purpose kitchen knife; santoku knife

bitter tincture

eloquence; cleverness in speaking

eloquent and skilled (worker)

Sumo

body drop throw (sweeping the opponent's legs and throwing them forward)

polite and courteous

cook; chef

Common noun

adult; grown-up; person who has come of age

Nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

fully fledged; established; qualified

roadside stone distance indicators placed at intervals of one chō (approx. 109 meters)

one cake of bean curd

Western-style kitchen knife (esp. with double-beveled blade)

knife sharpener

Word usually written using kana alone; Card games; Poss. from Portuguese "oito"

eight (in mekuri karuta)

おいちょう only; Archaic

third-rank prostitute in the Kyoto red-light districts

Idiomatic expression

both eloquent and skilled

towns and villages (official urban area classification)

snowrose (Serissa japonica); tree of a thousand stars; Japanese boxthorn

rectangular-shaped thin-bladed knife (esp. used for vegetables)