休意: feel secure

野球: baseball

休養: rest, time off from work; recuperation / 急用: urgent business

休養: to rest; to recuperate

鎧球: American football

okurigana: in written Japanese, the kana added after a kanji to indicate inflection endings, such as the べる (-beru) in 食(た)べる (taberu, “to eat”)

smaller kana printed next to (vertical) or above (horizontal) non-kana text as pronunciation guide

(history) a syllabary with characters drawn from kanji, such as the 万葉仮名 (Man'yōgana), that is the precursor to hiragana and katakana

(collective) 平仮名 (hiragana) and 片仮名 (katakana)

Man'yōgana, the early Japanese syllabary using Chinese characters to represent Japanese sounds: the predecessor of hiragana and katakana