[ひら;ヒラ, hira ; hira] (n) (1) something broad and flat; palm of the hand; (2) common; ordinary; (3) (abbr) (See 平社員) low-ranking employee; freshman; novice; private #1054
[たけ, take] (n) (1) bamboo; (2) middle (of a three-tier ranking system); (P) #1867
[rankingu] (n) (1) ranking; (2) toplist (e.g. of WWW sites); (P) #1896
[まつ, matsu] (n) (1) pine tree; (2) highest (of a three-tier ranking system); (P) #2066
[むち, muchi] (n, n-suf) (hon) (arch) lord; god; goddess; honorific title for deities (and high-ranking people) #2288
[じょうい, joui] (n, adj-no) (1) superior (rank not class); ranking; (n) (2) { comp } higher order (e.g. byte); (3) { comp } host computer (of connected device); (P) #2360
[そつ, sotsu] (n) (1) low-ranking soldier; (2) (abbr) (See 卒業) graduation; (3) (abbr) (See 卒族) low-ranking samurai (1870-1872); (4) (abbr) (See 卒去) death (of a noble, etc.) #4299
[うめ(P);むめ(ok);ウメ, ume (P); mume (ok); ume] (n) (1) Japanese apricot (Prunus mume); Chinese plum; (2) lowest (of a three-tier ranking system); (P) #4787
[たゆう, tayuu] (n) (1) (See 能太夫) high-ranking Noh actor; (2) head of a school of noh performance; (3) high ranking courtesan (esp. in Yoshiwara) (Edo-period); (4) (See 浄瑠璃, 万歳・まんざい) joruri narrator; manzai narrator; (5) (See 女形) female role actor in kabuki; (6) (See 御師) low ranking priest in a Shinto shrine; (7) (太夫 only) lord steward (formerly the fifth court rank) #6515
[ふあんてい, fuantei] (adj-na, n) instability; insecurity; crankiness; (P) #9038
[よびだし, yobidashi] (n, vs) (1) (See 呼び出す・よびだす・1) call; summons; (n) (2) sumo usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; (3) (abbr) (See 呼び出し電話) telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (4) (arch) (See 陸湯) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse); (5) (arch) high-ranking prostitute in the Yoshiwara district (Edo period); (6) (arch) unlicensed prostitute in the Fukagawa red-light district (Edo period); (P) #9734
[まいすう, maisuu] (n) (1) the number of flat things; (2) win-loss difference which influences the ranking of sumo wrestlers; (P) #10314
[ばんづけ, banduke] (n) ranking of entertainers, sumo wrestlers, etc.; (P) #10596
[しゃかく, shakaku] (n) (1) (obs) shrine ranking (abolished in 1946); (2) company ranking #10936
[まくうち, makuuchi] (n) (See 幕の内) highest-ranking sumo division; (P) #10992
[つめ;づめ, tsume ; dume] (n, suf) (1) (づめ when a suffix) stuffing; packing; (n) (2) end (esp. the foot of a bridge); (3) lowest-ranking guest at tea ceremony; (4) tea master; (5) endgame (esp. in shogi or used figuratively); (6) (abbr) sweet eel sauce; (7) (arch) middle-aged woman; (n-suf) (8) appointment to a particular workplace; (9) using as the sole ground of judgement (judgment); (10) (after the -masu stem of a verb) continuing; keep doing for period of time #11142
[ごけにん, gokenin] (n) lower-ranking vassal in the Kamakura and Edo periods #16420
[じょれつ, joretsu] (n, vs) rank; ranking order; hierarchy; (P) #17372
[おつめ, otsume] (n) (1) lowest-ranking guest at tea ceremony; (2) tea master
[ちゃんこばん, chankoban] (n) (sumo) person in charge of preparing food for rikishi (usually performed by low-ranking rikishi)
[エレベーターりきし, erebe-ta-rikishi] (n) sumo wrestler that keeps going up and down the rankings
[torankingu] (n) { comp } trunking
[dobe] (n) (See びり) lowest ranking; worst (e.g. in a test)
[nonkyaria] (n) non career (i.e. civil servants not on track for high-ranking positions)
[burankingu] (n) { comp } blanking
[rankuin] (n, vs) ranking; placing in a list (top ten, popularity, sales, etc.)
[redeizukonpanion ; redeizu . konpanion] (n) (arch) lady's companion (paid female companion of a wealthy or high-ranking woman, esp. in Victorian England)
[くらいづけ, kuraiduke] (n) ranking; unit
[げにん, genin] (n) low-ranking ninja
[えばんづけ, ebanduke] (n) illustrated sumo rankings
[かんぜつ, kanzetsu] (n, vs) unique; unsurpassed; ranking foremost
[げん, gen] (n, n-suf) (1) (arch) special Nara-period administrative division for areas containing a detached palace (Yoshino and Izumi); (n) (2) (arch) (See 大宰府) secretary; third highest-ranking officials in the Dazaifu
[せきとり, sekitori] (n) ranking sumo wrestler in the makuuchi (senior-grade) or juryo (junior-grade) divisions; (P)
[はたもとはちまんき, hatamotohachimanki] (n) (arch) (See 旗本・はたもと) the shogun's eighty thousand guards, comprising hatamoto and lower-ranking vassals
[ぐぶ, gubu] (n, vs) (1) accompanying; being in attendance on; (n) (2) (abbr) (See 内供奉) inner offerer (any of the 10 high-ranking monks serving at the inner offering hall)
[くうこ, kuuko] (n) (in mythology) (See 妖狐) second-ranking fox spirit
[おし;おんし, oshi ; onshi] (n) (usu. pronounced おんし at Ise Shrine) low-ranking Shinto priest
[みだい, midai] (n) wife of a shogun or a highest-ranking nobleman
[みだいどころ, midaidokoro] (n) wife of a shogun or a highest-ranking nobleman
[こうい, koui] (adj-na, n) (1) dignity; eminent; high ranking; (2) high-order (digit, bit, etc.); (P)
[こうやひじり, kouyahijiri] (n) (1) Mt. Koya missionary (usu. low-ranking monks); (2) (uk) (See 田鼈) Lethocerus deyrollei (species of giant water bug)
[ねぎしりゅう, negishiryuu] (n) conservative calligraphy style used to write sumo rankings
[さいこうい, saikoui] (n, adj-no) pride of place; most prominent; top-ranking
[さいていランク, saitei ranku] (adj-no) lowest-ranking; one-star (general, restaurant, etc, )
[さんこう, sankou] (n) three lords (highest ranking officials in the old Imperial Chinese or Japanese governments)
[さんまいめ, sanmaime] (n) (1) (from Kabuki system of ranking characters) comedian; actor who plays comic roles; (2) figure of fun; laughing stock
[かみばんづけ, kamibanduke] (n) sumo ranking written on paper
[じじゃく, jijaku] (n, vs) { Buddh } death of a high-ranking priest
[しゃじん;とねり(gikun), shajin ; toneri (gikun)] (n) (1) servant; valet; footman; (2) (arch) someone who works in close quarters with the emperor or imperial family; (3) (arch) low-ranking official who works for the imperial family or nobility (under the Rituryo system); (4) (arch) ox-tender for oxcarts; horse boy; (5) (See 宮内省) honorary junior official of the Imperial Household Department's Board of Ceremonies involved in miscellaneous duties related to ceremonies
[わかさま, wakasama] (n) (hon) young master (respectful way of referring to the son of a high-ranking person)