noun:

• rear garden; back yard

noun / ~する noun:

• endorsement; proof; note on back of the scroll

noun / ~の noun:

• back (esp. of a building, etc.); rear; behind

noun:

• endorser

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to make a mistake (e.g. in choosing one's melds) - colloquialism - Mahjong term ➜ 裏目【うらめ】

expression:

• there are wheels within wheels; there's more than meets the eye - proverb

noun:

• collateral goods

noun:

• Astralium haematragum (species of turban shell)

noun:

• purl (stitch); purl knitting ➜ 表編み

noun:

• inner affection

noun:

• back stairs

noun:

• gathering evidence (e.g. to back a news story); getting the facts; obtaining supporting evidence

noun:

• underworld; underside of society

noun:

• back cover (e.g. camera, watch, etc.)

noun:

• falsetto

expression:

• continued overleaf; please turn over; PTO

noun:

• act of treachery; breach of faith; stab in the back; double-cross

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to turn inside out; to turn the other way; to turn (something) over ➜ 裏返す
• to look at it from another perspective - usu. as 裏を返せば
• to visit the same prostitute or geisha for a second time

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be turned inside out
• to betray; to double-cross
• to break into falsetto; to crack into falsetto; to squeak; to croak; to quaver

noun:

• secret leader of a group of juvenile delinquents - slang ➜ 番長

noun / ~の noun:

• the reverse; other side; lining ➜ 裏側【うらがわ】

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to outwit; to outsmart; to counterplot; to defeat - idiom ➜ 裏かく
• to pierce something all the way through

noun:

• non-negotiable bill

noun:

• Urasenke school of tea ceremony

noun:

• backroom deal