[じ, ji] (n) (1) thing; matter; (2) incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis; (3) circumstances; situation; state of affairs; (4) work; business; affair; (5) after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to; (n-suf) (6) (See 事・ごと・1) nominalizing suffix; (7) (See 事・ごと・2) pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...; (P) #353
[じ, ji] (suf) (1) (See 事・こと・6) nominalizing suffix; (2) (See 事・こと・7) pretending to ...; playing make-believe ... #353
[はな, hana] (n) (1) flower; blossom; bloom; petal; (2) blooming (esp. of cherry blossoms); cherry blossom; (3) (See 生け花・1) ikebana; (4) (abbr) (See 花札) Japanese playing cards; (5) beauty; (6) (usu. as 〜が花) (See 言わぬが花) (the) best; (P) #680
[しゅえん, shuen] (n, vs, adj-no) starring; playing the leading part; (P) #1010
[はってん, hatten] (n, vs) (1) development; growth; advancement; unfurling; (2) expansion; extension; enlargement; (3) (recently often associated with gay sex) (See 発展場) playing around; having an active sex life; (P) #1425
[あそび, asobi] (n, n-suf) (1) playing; (2) (uk) play (margin between on and off, gap before pressing button or lever has an effect); (P) #5910
[toranpu] (n) playing cards (from trump); (P) #7418
[たいきょく, taikyoku] (n, vs) (playing) a game of go, shogi or chess, etc.; (P) #10444
[ちょうじかん, choujikan] (n-adv, n-t) long period of time; long playing; (P) #11644
[ひやく, hiyaku] (n, vs) (1) leaping; activity; (2) leapfrog (over a problem); making a leap (e.g. in logic); (3) making great strides; making rapid progress; (4) emerging; (5) becoming active; playing an active part; (P) #12834
[ほんろう, honrou] (n, vs) (1) trifling with; toying with; playing with; making sport of; making fun of; leading around by the nose; (2) tossing about (a ship); (P) #17514
[エイチピー;エッチピー, eichipi-; ecchipi-] (n) (1) (See 馬力) horsepower; HP; (2) (HP only) (See ホームページ) home page; (3) (HP only) (See ハーフパイプ) half-pipe (i.e. in snowboarding); (4) (HP only) HP (i.e. a 'hit point' in a role-playing game); (5) (hp only) (See ハープ) harp
[いろはガルタ, iroha garuta] (n) playing cards bearing proverbs in the traditional ordering of the Japanese syllabary
[janjaka] (adv) (1) noisily (playing a musical instrument); (2) doing something on and on
[せせりばし, seseribashi] (n) poking one's food around using one's chopsticks; playing with one's food with one's chopsticks (a breach of etiquette)
[anbushua ; anbushu-ru] (n) embouchure (the position and use of the lips, tongue, and teeth in playing a wind instrument) (fre
[エルピーばん, erupi-ban] (n) LP; long-playing record
[kyacchibo-ru] (n) playing catch (wasei
[sukyanto-ku] (n) Scan Talk (brand name for a barcode system for recording and playing back brief sequences of sound)
[ズルやすみ(ズル休み);ずるやすみ(ずる休み;狡休み), zuru yasumi ( zuru yasumi ); zuruyasumi ( zuru yasumi ; kou yasumi )] (n, vs) playing hookey; being away from work without a good reason
[pure-ingumane-ja-] (n) playing manager (player-manager of a sports team)
[pure-ingumaneja-] (n) player-manager; playing manager
[ボールなげ, bo-ru nage] (n) ball game; playing catch
[ボールあそび, bo-ru asobi] (n) ball playing
[ro-rupure-ingu ; ro-rupureingu] (n) { comp } role-playing; roleplaying
[ro-rupure-inguge-mu ; ro-rupureinguge-mu] (n) { comp } role-playing game; RPG
[あめうり, ameuri] (n) candy vendor (esp. an Edo-period candy vendor who sold candy while walking around playing the flute or another musical instrument); candy vender
[あんそうしゅうは, ansoushuuha] (n) giving an amorous sidelong look; casting an amorous glance (at); playing up to someone behind the scenes
[ひとりふたやく, hitorifutayaku] (n) double role; one person playing two roles; wearing two hats
[うんどうじょう(P);うんどうば(P), undoujou (P); undouba (P)] (n) sports ground; playing field; playground; (P)
[えんそうりょこう, ensouryokou] (n) concert (playing) tour
[さげゆみ, sageyumi] (n) down-bow (technique used when playing a string instrument)
[かぎ, kagi] (n) woman who earns her living by entertaining with song, dance and playing the shamisen; geisha who sings at parties
[かるた;カルタ, karuta ; karuta] (n) (uk) playing cards (por
[ひあそび, hiasobi] (n, vs) (1) playing with fire; (2) playing with something dangerous; (3) playing around (love); flirting; having an affair
[ひなぶり;ひいじり(火弄り), hinaburi ; hiijiri ( hi rou ri )] (n) (See 火遊び・1) playing with fire
[はながるた(花がるた);はなガルタ(花ガルタ), hanagaruta ( hana garuta ); hana garuta ( hana garuta )] (n) (See 花札) floral playing cards; Japanese playing cards (12 suits of 4 cards, each suit repr. a month indic. by a flower)
[はなあわせ, hanaawase] (n) Japanese playing cards
[はなふだ, hanafuda] (n) floral playing cards; Japanese playing cards (12 suits of 4 cards, each suit repr. a month indic. by a flower)
[うみあそび, umiasobi] (n) playing in the sea
[そとあそび, sotoasobi] (exp) playing outside
[けれん, keren] (n) playing to the gallery; showing off; pretence; pretense
[かくおち, kakuochi] (n) shogi game with the superior player playing without the kaku
[かぶしきとうき, kabushikitouki] (n) stock speculation; speculation in stocks; playing the stock market
[きこどうどう, kikodoudou] (adj-t, adv-to) with colors flying and band playing; triumphantly; in splendid array
[きふう, kifuu] (n) one's style of playing shogi or go
[きへん, kihen] (n) (See 臨機応変) adapting oneself to the requirements of the moment; playing it by ear
[きりゃくじゅうおう, kiryakujuuou] (n, adj-no) very resourcefully using tactics adapting oneself to the requirements of the moment; playing it by ear; acting according to circumstances
[こむそう, komusou] (n) begging Zen priest of the Fuke sect (wearing a sedge hood and playing a shakuhachi flute)
[きょくびき, kyokubiki] (n) trick playing (on a stringed instrument)