shouldering / taking on someone else's responsibility

a mixed script of kanji and katakana, or a use of such script, that was common in formal writing, before modern orthographic reforms which favored hiragana over katakana for grammatical elements such as particles and inflectional affixes

中世史: the Middle Ages; medieval times / 中性子: a neutron / 中性紙: alkaline paper; archival paper

tough base at the end of a mushroom's stem

異種格闘技戦: a combat sport match where opponents compete against each other using different styles of martial arts

意思疎通: mutual understanding

医食同源: an apple a day keeps the doctor away

異種移植: xenotransplant; xenotransplantation

細石: small stone; boulder formed from stones

霞石: nepheline