godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to awaken; to arouse from sleep
• to bring to one's senses; to disabuse (someone of)
• to sober up
• to dampen; to throw a damper on; to spoil ［醒ます］ ➜ 冷ます【さます】

noun:

• paper flowers ［紙花］
• paper flowers for a funeral ［紙花］ - archaism
• paper handed out as a means of congratulations in a red light district (as a promise of a future money donation) ➜ 小菊【こぎく】

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to turn back; to go back; to come back; to return; to retrace one's steps

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to stare at; to gaze at; to look hard at; to watch intently; to fix one's eyes on

expression / ~くる verb (spec.):

• to get mad; to be highly offended; to get pissed off; to get angry; to lose one's cool - abbreviation ➜ 頭にくる

noun:

• humour; humor; temper; mood; spirits
• safety; health; well-being; one's situation

adjectival noun:

• in a good mood; in high spirits; happy; cheery; merry; chipper - usu. as ご機嫌 ➜ ご機嫌【ごきげん】

noun / ~する noun:

• thought; thinking; contemplation; consideration - esp. しい
• using wisdom to get to the bottom of things; focusing one's mind; deep contemplation; concentrated thought; deliberating; pondering; reflecting - esp. しゆい - Buddhism term

noun:

• rear gate (esp. of castle); back entrance ➜ 大手【おおて】
• one who arrests
• force attacking the rear of a castle ➜ 大手【おおて】
• (opponent's) weak point

noun:

• battlecry; cheer; cry where one breathes in a large volume of air and then releases it suddenly in a loud cry ➜ 鬨の声

noun / ~する noun:

• rushing at the enemy ➜ 突貫

noun:

• Bellows Festival; festival for blacksmiths and foundries on the eighth day of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar, on which they would clean their bellows and pray

adverb / ~と adverb:

• by ones and twos - onomatopoeia
• tears or flower petals falling quietly - onomatopoeia ➜ はらはら・ぼろぼろ
• gurgling bird sound - onomatopoeia
• falling apart; crumbling; melting (in one's mouth) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• dish made from fiveleaf aralia sprouts, pickled daikon, walnuts, etc. - Food term

expression / noun / ~の noun:

• (something) not coming together (as one had hoped or expected); unfortunate turn of events; unexpected turn; (a) crossbill's beak (which has differently shaped upper and lower parts) [literal] - often as ～の食い違い (with the same meaning) - idiom ➜ 交喙

noun / ~する noun:

• digestion (of food)
• digestion (of information); assimilation; thorough understanding
• consumption; absorption; using up; meeting (e.g. a quota); completion
• losing one's form and turning into something else - orig. meaning - archaism

noun:

• stick-to-itiveness; perseverance; persistence
• radical (esp. one that tends to ionize easily) ➜ 基【き】
• root - Mathematics term
• indriya (faculty of the body having a specific function, i.e. the sensory organs) - Buddhism term

noun:

• different in appearance but essentially the same in content; equal in skills or workmanship but different in style or artistic flavor; the same for all practical purposes - four character idiom ➜ 同工異曲【どうこういきょく】

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to bolt down one's food; to gulp down; to eat quickly ➜ 掻っ込む【かっこむ】
• to carry under the arm; to rake in; to scoop up ➜ 掻い込む

expression / noun:

• manner of speaking; mode of expression; way of saying something

adverb:

• at the same time as speaking; as one speaks ［いいざま］

noun:

• starting with vigor but ending with no action; raising one's voice (in a call to action) and then failing to take action

noun:

• using one's chopsticks to jump from side dish to side dish without pausing to eat rice in between (a breach of etiquette) ➜ 渡り箸

noun:

• using one's chopsticks to jump from side dish to side dish without pausing to eat rice in between (a breach of etiquette) ➜ 移り箸

noun:

• head
• hair (on one's head)
• mind; brains; intellect ［あたま］
• leader; chief; boss; captain
• top; tip
• beginning; start
• head; person ［あたま］
• top structural component of a kanji ［かしら］
• pair ［あたま］ - colloquialism - Mahjong term ➜ 雀頭【ジャントー】

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to learn by experience; to learn one's lesson; to learn the hard way
• to have enough (of); to be disgusted with

godan ~ぶ verb / intransitive verb:

• to reach; to amount to; to befall; to happen to; to extend
• to be up to the task; to come up to ➜ 及ばない
• to compare with; to be a match (for)
• to commit (a crime) ➜ 犯罪に及ぶ
• to require (to do) - usu. used in the negative ➜ 及ばない

noun / ~する noun:

• enlightenment; spiritual awakening; opening one's eyes to the truth
• gaining eyesight; restoring eyesight; opening the eyes ［かいがん］

expression:

• while alive (e.g. I won't allow ... while I'm alive); as long as one lives