御

Shinto

exorcism rite; purification

controller; control unit

Engineering

attitude control

Physiology

postural control

Food, cooking

rice ball coated with sweetened red beans, soybean flour or sesame

bargain; good buy; budget

cake or snack served with tea

exaggerated; extravagant; overdone

star

siblings; brothers and sisters

human sacrifice; victim

Honorific

one person; one customer

Colloquial

unmarried and childless older woman

discarding; throwing away; getting rid of

dismissal (of an employee); firing; sacking

Often written on the paper wrapper

chopsticks

Food, cooking

wheat gluten (usu. steamed or baked)

busy (phone)

Word usually written using kana alone; Children's language

drawing; painting

Colloquial

doodling; sketching

this place; where one comes from; here

starting afresh; going back to square one; abandoning (e.g. a plan); calling off

Orig. meaning

clearing an abacus

Polite; Buddhism

alms-giving; charity

Polite; Buddhism

offerings (usu. money) to a priest (for reading sutras, etc.)

Colloquial

financially supporting one's favorite celebrity (by buying merchandise, attending events, etc.)

Godan verb - -aru special class; Intransitive verb

to come; to go; to be (somewhere)

Auxiliary verb; Godan verb - -aru special class; After the -te form of a verb

-ing

Abbreviation

osechi; food eaten during the New Year's Holidays

Food, cooking

boiled greens in bonito-flavoured soy sauce (vegetable side dish)

sleeping; feeling sleepy; beddy-bye

unasked for; unnecessary; uninvolved