[けんちく, kenchiku] (n, vs) construction; architecture (of buildings); (P) #667
[けいれつ, keiretsu] (n) (1) series; sequence; system; order of succession; (2) keiretsu (conglomeration of businesses linked by cross-shareholdings); (P) #1068
[しゅうい, shuui] (n, adj-no) (1) surroundings; environs; (2) circumference; (P) #2639
[おとずれ, otozure] (n) (1) visit; call; (2) arrival (e.g. of spring); advent; coming; appearance; (3) news; tidings; word; (P) #3009
[むね, mune] (n) (1) large building; building with a long roof; (suf, ctr) (2) counter for buildings, apartments, etc. #3174
[むね, mune] (n) (1) (often むな as a prefix) ridge (of roof); (2) (See 刀背) back of a sword; (suf, ctr) (3) counter for buildings, apartments, etc.; (P) #3174
[けん, ken] (suf, ctr) (1) counter for buildings (esp. houses); (suf) (2) suffix for a pen name, stage name, etc. #3861
[かいかん, kaikan] (n, vs) (1) opening a hall for that day's business (museum, library, such like buildings); (2) opening of new hall (museum, etc.); (P) #3941
[まわり, mawari] (n, n-suf) (1) circumference; perimeter; edge; (2) surroundings; locality; neighborhood; (3) (回り, 廻り only) rotation; circulation; (P) #6201
[しゅうかい, shuukai] (n, vs) (1) going around; (2) circumference; girth; surroundings #9692
[なのり, nanori] (n, vs) (1) (See 名ノリ) giving one's name (or rank, etc.); self-introduction; (2) name readings of kanji; (P) #10309
[rubi-(P); rubi (P)] (n) (1) (esp. ルビー) ruby; (2) (esp. ルビ) ruby character; small hiragana or katakana readings of kanji usually above or to the side of the kanji (esp. used by printers and in ref. to printed material); (3) { comp } Ruby (programming language); (P) #12192
[ぎじ, giji] (n) proceedings (e.g. parliament, congress); business (of the day); (P) #13560
[てもち, temochi] (n) holdings; goods on hand; (P) #15723
[とうしん, toushin] (n, vs) report; reply; findings; (P) #17281
[ぶる, buru] (v5r, vt) (1) to wave; to shake; to swing; (2) to sprinkle; to throw (dice); (3) to cast (actor); to allocate (work); (4) to turn down (somebody); to reject; to jilt; to dump; (5) to abandon; to give up; to ruin; (6) (See 振り仮名) to add kana indicating a reading of a word; (7) to slightly change headings; to change directions; (8) to extract by broiling; to prepare an infusion of; to decoct; (9) to carry with great vigor (e.g. a portable shrine); (10) to bring up the main topic; (11) to replace; to substitute; (12) to set up a joke for somebody else; (P) #18866
[gururi] (n) (also written 周) surroundings; circumference; (P)
[kuesuchontaimu] (n) question time (section of proceedings in parliament)
[ゲームさ, ge-mu sa] (n) distance in the standings between two teams expressed as the difference in number of games won or lost (baseball)
[ビルかぜ, biru kaze] (n) eddies of wind around high buildings
[ペンキや, penki ya] (n) painter (of buildings, etc.)
[rangurimen] (n) wraparound retaining straps worn with the old ski cable bindings (ger
[reko-doraiburari] (n) { comp } sound recordings library; record library
[う, u] (ctr) counter for buildings, etc.
[えんちゅう(円柱)(P);まるばしら, enchuu ( enchuu )(P); marubashira] (n, adj-no) (1) (円柱 only) column; shaft; cylinder; (n) (2) (usu. まるばしら) (See 角柱) round pillar (esp. in buildings); (P)
[おんがな, ongana] (n) (obsc) (prior to the advent of kana) kanji used to represent readings of words, selected for their on-yomi, regardless of meaning
[おんくん, onkun] (n) kanji readings; (P)
[おんしん;いんしん, onshin ; inshin] (n) correspondence; news; letter; tidings
[おんはかせ;こえのはかせ(ik);おんぱかせ(ik), onhakase ; koenohakase (ik); onpakase (ik)] (n) professor specializing in the readings of kanji in classic Confucianist texts
[なんけんか, nankenka] (n) some houses; some buildings
[かしん, kashin] (n) tidings of flowers
[かしんふう, kashinfuu] (n) spring wind telling the tidings of flowers
[はなだより, hanadayori] (n) tidings of flowers
[かいぎろく, kaigiroku] (n) minutes; proceedings
[ほどける, hodokeru] (v1, vi) (1) to be solved; (2) (See 解ける・ほどける) to loosen; to come untied; (3) to be removed (e.g. restrictions); to be cleared (e.g. misunderstandings); to be broken (e.g. spells, curses); (4) (See 溶ける) to melt; (P)
[がいい, gaii] (n) periphery; surroundings
[かぶしきもちあい, kabushikimochiai] (n) cross shareholdings
[きぶつそんかい, kibutsusonkai] (n) (in law) property damage (not including ships, buildings, planes and documents)
[きせつのたより, kisetsunotayori] (n) season's tidings; seasonal letter
[きしゅくにち, kishukunichi] (n) (See 暦注) "day of the ghost" (an extremely auspicious day on the lunar calendar for everything but weddings)
[ぎじにってい, gijinittei] (n) agenda; calendar of proceedings; order of the day
[ぎじぼうがい, gijibougai] (n) obstruction of proceedings; a filibuster
[ぎじろく, gijiroku] (n) record of proceedings; minutes; (P)
[きゅうがな, kyuugana] (n) former (i.e. before the post-WWII reforms) kana usage in writing the readings of kanji
[きゅうかなづかい, kyuukanadukai] (n) (See 新仮名遣い) former (i.e. before the post-WWII reforms) kana usage in writing the readings of kanji
[ぎゅうほせんじゅつ, gyuuhosenjutsu] (n) snail's pace tactics; walking slowly when voting in the Diet to delay proceedings
[かがみびらき, kagamibiraki] (n) (1) cutting the New Year's rice cake (January 11th); (2) traditional breaking of a sake cask at weddings, receptions, etc.
[きょくせつ, kyokusetsu] (n, vs) windings; meanderings; complications; (P)
[くんがな, kungana] (n) (obsc) (prior to the advent of kana) kanji used to represent readings of words, selected for their kun-yomi, regardless of meaning
[けんきゅうけっか, kenkyuukekka] (n) results of a scientific investigation; findings; (P)