玉

Abbreviation

soft-boiled egg marinated in soy and mirin

jade cup

your manuscript

guardian deity of a ship

Abbreviation

soft-boiled egg

Chinese dish with fried egg and crab

Job's tears (Coix lacryma-jobi); coixseed; tear grass; adlay

bits of fried batter left after cooking tempura

New Year ornament (usu. of straw, fern leaves, seaweed and bitter orange fruit, and hung at the entrance of a home)

Food, cooking

bowl of rice topped with egg

calculation on an abacus

dupion (double cocoon formed jointly by two or more silkworms); dupioni

cocoon

scolding; telling-off; talking-to; dressing-down

corundum

ball won in a game of pachinko

Nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

jet black; pitch dark

Word usually written using kana alone

peyote (Lophophora williamsii); mescaline

Shogi

entering of a king (into opponent's territory)

chalcedony

your letter; excellent composition

Colloquial

scrotum; testicle sack

good germ; good bacteria

Orig. meaning

skilled control of a spear; stabbing (someone) with a spear

victim; scapegoat; someone singled out (for punishment, etc.)

refined rice flour; rice flour for dumplings

eyes made of crystal, glass, etc. inserted into the head of a Buddhist statue

beautiful female eyes