子

dumpling store; dumpling seller

puppeteer; puppet player

かいらいし only

wirepuller; string-puller; man behind the scenes

Honorific

Sun Tzu (Chinese military strategist; 544?-496 BCE)

The Art of War (military text by Sun Tzu; ca. 5th century BCE)

Sun Bin Bing Fa (military text by Sun Bin)

electric chair

coloured glass; colored glass

clothes padded with cotton

refusing to budge; adamant; intransigent; unyielding

nest (of boxes); nesting

concealed information

入れ子 only; Computing

nested structure

入れ子 only; Dated term

adopting a child after one's own has died; child adopted by a parent of a deceased child

cavity in an oar (fitted onto a peg as part of a traditional oarlock)

dried candies; dried confectionary; cookies

お玉じゃくし／お玉杓子 only

ladle

tadpole

musical note

poppy seed

Often 〜ほど or 〜のよう

something extremely tiny

shoji paper

to set a ladder up against

weak child; frail child; gangly child

Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

Le petit prince (by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry); The Little Prince

Physics

quantum theory

Archaic

dancing girl (end of the Heian period)

prostitute

tempo in gagaku

Manga slang

girl who wears glasses

to meet all three important conditions; to be a triple threat; to be ideal

musical chairs

fellow pupil; fellow apprentice

Girls' Day; Dolls' Festival; Hinamatsuri

Euphemistic

menstrual day; menstrual period

whitebait

elver (young eel)

facet; facetted object