expression / noun:

• shape of the "dai" kanji (esp. person with arms and legs outstretched); sprawling; lying spread-eagled

expression:

• Out of Asia and Into Europe (slogan calling for Japan to align itself with the West) - four character idiom

noun:

• vegetables pickled in salted rice-bran paste, esp. with lots of liquid - Food term ➜ 糠味噌漬け
• hot-dip galvanizing - colloquialism - Engineering term

noun:

• Ctenopoma; genus of freshwater climbing gouramies with terrestrial locomotion ability in the family Anabantidae

noun:

• single kanji that is read twice (with different pronunciations) in the Japanese reading of Chinese texts - e.g. 将 is read as「まさに...んとす」

noun:

• person in charge of music (in a Japanese dance performance) ➜ 立方【たちかた】
• person singing ballads (in noh)
• coast (esp. as seen from the water); shore
• the country; countryside; the provinces; rural area - archaism

noun:

• wooden doll with Japanese costumes made from cloth with the edges tucked into grooves in the wood; kimekomi doll

noun:

• communicating while drinking (usu. with colleagues); communicating through drinking together; boozing with work people - from 飲み and コミュニケーション ➜ ノミュニケーション

noun / ~する noun:

• calendar reform; adoption of new calendar system

noun:

• new calendar (for a new year); new year

noun:

• same period of last year; the same month a year ago; year-ago month

noun:

• Japanese morning glory (Ipomoea nil); picotee morning glory; ivy morning glory
• any funnel shaped object; bell (e.g. of a trumpet); funnel-shaped urinal

noun:

• sweet rocket (Hesperis matronalis); dame's rocket; dame's violet; damask violet
• Chinese violet cress (Orychophragmus violaceus) ➜ 大紫羅欄花【オオアラセイトウ】

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to enquire of someone about something (inquire); to question
• to interrogate; to grill (someone about a matter); to question in detail

noun / ~の noun / suffix noun / prefix:

• previous; prior; former; first; earlier; some time ago; preceding
• point (e.g. pencil); tip; end; nozzle
• head (of a line); front
• ahead; the other side
• the future; hereafter
• destination
• the other party

adjectival noun / noun:

• no good; not serving its purpose; useless; broken
• hopeless; wasted; in vain; purposeless
• cannot; must not; not allowed

noun:

• neutral point (in go); intersection owned by neither player at the end of a game

noun:

• overcoat - abbreviation ➜ オーバーコート

noun / ~する noun / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• exceeding; going over; going beyond

adjectival noun / noun:

• exaggerated; over the top; overdrawn; overreaction

noun:

• over par - abbreviation - Sports term ➜ オーバーパー
• overexposure Antonym: アンダー

noun:

• shochu highball; cocktail of shochu with tonic water - abbreviation ➜ 焼酎ハイボール

adverb:

• anybody and everybody; with the best of them; as the next fellow - adv equivalent of 誰も ➜ 誰も

adjectival noun / noun / ~の noun:

• being of unbounded energy; being with matchless vigor; having endless sexual stamina - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• jealousy and enmity; being jealous of and at odds with (each other) - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• jealousy and enmity; being jealous of and at odds with (each other) - four character idiom

noun:

• purple Washington clam (Saxidomus purpurata)
• type of pomelo with red-purple flesh

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to pass (time); to spend
• to overdo (esp. of one's alcohol consumption); to drink (alcohol)
• to take care of; to support - archaism

godan ~す verb / auxiliary verb:

• to overdo; to do too much
• to ... without acting on it

noun / ~する noun:

• travelling on foot; traveling on foot
• travelling all over

adverb:

• a little