子

scrambled eggs

electronic piano; digital piano

Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

Nobody's Boy (1878 novel by H-H Malot); The Adventures of Remi; Sans Famille

latchkey child; latchkey kid

Shuten-dōji; mythical Japanese oni (demon) who lived on Mt. Ōe

quintuplets

bean-jam cake

clove (Syzygium aromaticum)

Chemistry

macromolecule; high polymer

boy or doll dressed in ancient Chinese clothes

Historical term

hairstyle inspired by a karako doll (esp. for girls; Edo period)

electronic brain

Proverb

like father, like son; the apple doesn't fall far from the tree; the child of a frog is a frog

hot sake with beaten egg and sugar

Colloquial

cutie; sweetie

easy task; piece of cake; cakewalk; cinch; pushover

cake served with tea; light snack

(number of) days

cake dish

Idiomatic expression

to be left lonely at the top; to be left high and dry by one's friends; to be abandoned by one's supporters; to have the rug pulled from under one; to have the ladder pulled out from under one

Idiomatic expression

every Tom, Dick and Harry; any one or thing; even a cat and a ladle

shoji with an oil-treated screen (for increased water resistance)

countermeasures to the falling birthrate

みずこ／みずご only

aborted fetus (foetus); miscarried fetus; stillborn fetus

Chūbu dialect

newborn baby

八つ子 only

octuplet

eight-year-old child

wasp larva (esp. of yellowjacket species Vespula flaviceps; used as food); bee larva; hornet larva