adjective:

• able to take a lot of punishment (of a boxer, etc.); able to take a hit - Martial Arts term
• able to keep one's cool when the batter gets a hit (of a baseball pitcher)
• resilient; strong in the face of criticism or adversity

ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs) / intransitive verb:

• to decrease; to be reduced; to grow less; to abate

ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs) / transitive:

• to reduce; to lessen; to cut down; to mitigate; to diminish
• to subtract; to deduct; to take off

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to decrease; to be reduced; to grow less; to abate

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to reduce; to lessen; to cut down; to mitigate; to diminish
• to subtract; to deduct; to take off

noun:

• outdoor bench (placed under the eaves of a house and used for cooling off during the summer)

noun:

• blood spilt from the body
• blood circulating within the body (often as a metaphor for strong emotion or hot-bloodedness)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to miss one's footing
• to be off the right track; to be on the wrong path

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to pull; to draw; to pull tight
• to string (lines); to run (cable); to stretch
• to pull towards oneself (e.g. someone's sleeve)
• to drag; to haul; to tow
• to lead (e.g. one's followers)
• to take someone somewhere (e.g. a suspect to the police)
• to tempt into joining; to strongly invite to join
• to delay; to prolong
• to lengthen the pronunciation (of a word)
• to quote; to cite; to reference
• to pull the ball - Baseball term
• to wear; to put on

expression:

• tomorrow will take care of itself; let the morn come and the meat with it; tomorrow, the winds of tomorrow will blow [literal] - proverb

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to share (life's) joys and sorrows (with); to share the good and the bad (with); to stick together through thick and thin

noun:

• barbarians to the east and to the west (from the perspective of old China) - four character idiom

noun:

• flesh
• meat
• the physical body (as opposed to the spirit) ［にく］
• thickness ［にく］
• ink pad ［にく］ ➜ 印肉

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to cut off the head of a sleeping person; to assassinate someone while he sleeps
• to catch someone off his guard by setting traps

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to go first; to take the lead; to lead the way

noun:

• 7th in a sequence denoted by the iroha system; 7th note in the diatonic scale (used in key names, etc.)

noun:

• star; any light-emitting (or reflecting) heavenly body (except for the sun and the moon)
• offender; perpetrator - police slang - slang
• star point (in go); hoshi; intersection marked with a dot
• circular symbol (said to be shaped like a shining star)
• bullseye
• one's star (out of the nine stars); the star that determines one's fate ➜ 九星
• small dot; spot
• point; score - Sumo term

noun:

• cool biz; cool business; business casual (Japanese Ministry of the Environment (MOE) campaign encouraging people to wear lighter clothes and for companies to set their air conditioners to 28C, etc.) ➜ ウォームビズ

expression:

• take a long walk off a short pier; go stick your head in a pig; bash your head against the corner of a block of tofu and die [literal]

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to try to ...; to be about to do ... - after the volitional form of verb
• to decide to ... - after the dictionary form of verb
• to take as; to treat as; to regard as
• to use for
• to suppose that (such) is the case; to assume
• to decide that; to think that
• to make into; to change into
• to feel (e.g. after sound symbolism or psychological experience word); to look; to feel like
• to intend; to have the intention - with を目的

expression:

• the clothes do not make the man; the cowl does not make the monk - proverb

adverb:

• anywhere; for all time; to the ends of the earth
• through thick and thin; come hell or high water; to the bitter end; to the utmost
• persistently; stubbornly
• in all respects; on every point
• thoroughly; exhaustively

noun:

• three-part joke, where the first two parts are similar and mundane, while the third is the punchline (e.g. How do you get to my place? Go down to the corner, turn left, and get lost.); rule of three (in comedy writing) ➜ 落ち【おち】

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to descend; to go down; to come down
• to be handed down (of an order, judgment, etc.)
• to pass (of time)
• to surrender; to capitulate
• to be less than; to be inferior to - often in neg. form
• to have the runs; to have diarrhea - also written as 瀉る ➜ 腹が下る
• to pass (in stool); to be discharged from the body
• to depreciate oneself; to be humble - archaism

noun:

• head and legs; the body

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to see someone off (at a station, an airport, etc.); to escort (e.g. home)
• to follow something with one's eyes until it is out of sight
• to let pass; to pass up (an opportunity etc.); to let a pitch go by (baseball); to watch a batted ball go into the stands
• to shelve (a plan, deliberation on a bill, etc.); to postpone
• to have someone related or close to you die; to bury someone
• to take care of somebody until he dies
• to wait and see; to continue (e.g. in legal contexts)

noun:

• sky burial (funeral ritual in which the body of the deceased is exposed to be eaten by birds)