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to give directions; to issue instructions

5

operation

1

nurse

12

playing doctor; playing doctor and patient

3

to be intricate; to be elaborate; to be complicated; to be complex

2

handcuffs; manacles

2

fetters; shackles; hobbles; encumbrance; hindrance; burden

3

surgery (branch of medicine); department of surgery

2

(lower) abdomen; hypogastrium; genitals; private parts

2

meandering; winding

2

operating gown; surgical suit

1

being responsible for school lunch distribution and clean-up

1

female (animal, plant)

3

cecum; caecum; (vermiform) appendix; appendicitis

1

around here; hereabouts; (around) this point; about now

1

to squat; to crouch down (completely, generally with face looking through knees)

3

provision of lunch (e.g. at office, school, etc.); providing a meal; lunch service

4

setting a place; setting the table

1

castration; neutering; gelding; enervation; emasculation; taming

1

long-life celebrations, particularly the 61st, 77th and 88th birthdays

1

operating room; operating theatre

1

to send (something) flying; to splatter; to drive (something) off

2

thrill

2

sense of guilty pleasure; feeling of naughtiness

2

to become slightly sweaty; to sweat a little; to become moist with sweat

2

physical weariness; sense of fatigue; washed-out feeling

3

to visit and comfort or console; to go to see (e.g. someone in hospital); to ask after (e.g. someone's health); to attack; to hit; to strike

1

sleeplessness; insomnia; wakefulness

4

New Year (esp. first three days); first month of the year; January

20

leisurely; slowly; soon; shortly; here and there; scattered

1

to tumble down; to roll down

6

kotatsu; table over an electric heater, with a hanging quilt to retain heat (orig. over a charcoal brazier in a floor well)

3

diagnosis; medical examination

4

to go to see; to visit

12

first dream of the New year (believed to foretell one's luck); (arch.) dream on the night of setsubun

6

to enter a New Year

2

5th day of the month; five days

3

hint; clue

10

to ascend; to go up; to climb

9

to go to the next stage (after failing to reach a conclusion); to be carried over (e.g. to the next meeting); to go into (a run-off, overtime, extra innings, etc.)

3

soup containing rice cakes and vegetables (New Year's dish)

4

bowl (wooden); counter for bowls of food or drink

11

Wajima

2

greens

3

points paid and received at the end of a game of mahjong based on position (rank)

3

soup containing rice cakes and vegetables (New Year's dish)

6

marine products; seafood; fish and shellfish

1

flying fish (esp. the Japanese flying fish, Cheilopogon agoo)

5

good flavor (flavour); good taste; umami (fifth category of taste in food); skill; cleverness; profit

2

wild harvested nori; jelly lichen (Collema sp.)

2