noun:

• excreta; raw sewage; human waste; night soil

noun:

• land which one visits; alien land; topsoil brought from another place to mix with the soil

noun:

• kokedama; moss ball; plant grown in a ball of soil covered in moss, held together with string

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to attend a meeting; to have the honor of being present at a meeting; to soil the lowest seat by one's presence [literal] - humble language

noun:

• repeated cultivation damage (same crop, same soil); continuous cropping hazard; replant failure

noun:

• dipping up (night soil); scooping up

noun:

• humus (soil); mold

noun:

• toilet (from which night-soil may be collected) ➜ 汲み取り便所

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to tread down so as to harden (soil, snow, etc.)

noun:

• shirasu (white pumiceous soil of southern Kyushu)

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• (of soil, etc.) soft, dry and crumbly - archaism - onomatopoeia
• sound of quiet walking - onomatopoeia

noun:

• outhouse (from which night-soil may be collected); privy ➜ 便壺

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to step on; to tread on; to trample on
• to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to visit
• to experience; to undergo
• to follow (rules, principles, etc.); to go through (e.g. formalities); to complete
• to estimate; to guess; to judge; to value; to appraise
• to rhyme ➜ 韻を踏む
• to succeed to (e.g. the throne)

noun:

• very bad condition; awful state; terrible situation; in the shit - usu. as どつぼにはまる ➜ どつぼにはまる
• night-soil reservoir dug in a field ➜ 野壺【のつぼ】
• night-soil pot - orig. meaning
• earthenware vessel; earthen urn - obscure term

noun:

• loam; humus
• soil formed from fine volcanic ash

noun:

• scarabaeid beetle grub
• any insect (or worm, etc.) that lives in soil

noun / ~する noun:

• wandering ➜ 流浪
• soil erosion

godan ~つ verb / transitive:

• to hit; to strike; to knock; to beat; to punch; to slap; to tap; to bang; to clap; to pound - also written as 拍つ, 搏つ, 撲つ, 擣つ
• to strike (noon, etc.); to sound (cymbals, etc.); to beat (a drum, etc.)
• to beat (rhythmically, e.g. pulse, waves, etc.)
• to move; to impress; to touch
• to drive in; to hammer in; to put in; to inject
• to type; to send; to transmit
• to insert; to write in; to mark
• to make (noodles, etc.); to prepare
• to till (soil)
• to sprinkle; to throw; to cast
• to do; to carry out; to play; to perform; to engage in (gambling, etc.)
• to pay (a deposit, etc.)
• to visit (on a pilgrimage)
• to line (a coat)
• to bind (a criminal)