Nounball; sphere; globe; orb · bead (of sweat, dew, etc.); drop; droplet · ball (in sports); pitch (e.g. in baseball)

Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verbhonorable death; death without surrender; honorable defeat · trying but being utterly beaten; being completely rejected when professing one's love

Nouncalculation on an abacus

Noun, Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'iridescent colour · equivocal (reply, statement, etc.); ambiguous; vague

Nounonion (Allium cepa)

Nouncorn (Zea mays); maize

Nounprecious stone (esp. jade) · egg (esp. as a sushi topping) · stock or security being traded; product being bought or sold

Nounsovereign's seal

Noungems and stones; wheat and chaff; wheat and tares; good and bad

Nounpebble; round stone; boulder

Nounjewel beetle (esp. Chrysochroa fulgidissima); buprestid

Nounbeautifully decorated gate · female genitalia

Nounhigh-quality green tea · jewel-like dewdrop

Nounthrone

Nounhot sake with beaten egg and sugar

Nounbranch of a sacred tree (esp. sakaki) with paper or cotton strips attached (used as an offering) · sakaki (species of evergreen sacred to Shinto, Cleyera japonica)

Nounthe Emperor's person or presence

Nounjade cup · sake cup

Nounfence around a shrine

Nounjeweler · soap bubble vendor

Nounthe Emperor's voice · beautiful voice; beautiful sound

Nounking (of the junior player)

Nouncabbage

Nounpainted snipe (Rostratula benghalensis)

Nounchalcedony

Nounseaweed

Nouncrystal; transparent gem

Nounimperial face

Nounyour letter; excellent composition

Nountime charge for a geisha

Nounyour manuscript

Noun(precious) letter; love letter

Nounkanji "jewel" radical at left (radical 96)

Nountraditional Japanese steel made from iron sand (esp. for use in swords)

Nounbroom (esp. one for sweeping a silkworm-raising room on the first Day of the Rat of the New Year) · plant used for constructing brooms (e.g. kochia) · liquor; alcohol; sake

Nounmoon

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

Nounpalace decorated with jewels; beautiful palace

Nounalias for fox (from a statue in the Inarimae shrine)

Noun, Adverb (fukushi), Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'short time; fleeting moment

Nounmoon snail (Naticidae spp.); moon shell · Marten's pearl oyster (Pinctada fucata martensii); Akoya pearl oyster

NounMachilus thunbergii (species of laurel)

Nounball of dried, ground, fermented dyer's knotweed leaves

Noun or verb acting prenominallyround; spherical; globe type; lens shape

Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no', Nounball-shaped; spherical

Noundupion silk; silk that comes from a double cocoon formed jointly by two or more silkworms

Nounrice seedling

Nouneyes made of crystal, glass, etc. inserted into the head of a Buddhist statue · beautiful female eyes

NounParasenecio farfarifolius var. bulbifer (variety of Indian plantain)