expression:

• enter through the narrow gate (for wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction); enter ye in at the strait gate - from Matthew 7:13 - proverb

noun:

• food (esp. staple food such as rice or wheat); provisions; rations; food supply

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to misperceive visually; to misread; to mistake for something or somebody else

noun:

• meat substitute; meat analogue
• cheaper meat used in place of beef or pork

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to give out an odor, scent or perfume (odour); to suggest; to insinuate

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to cross the ocean (i.e. to go to or come from overseas)

godan ~つ verb:

• to pierce through; to stand (of something sharp or pointy); to thrust (up)

noun:

• manzai; comic dialogue; two-person comedy act (usu. presented as a fast-paced dialogue, occ. presented as a skit) ➜ 万歳【まんざい】

noun:

• frame (e.g. of film, panel in a comic, etc.)
• scene
• time block (e.g. of a class schedule)

expression:

• pride goes before a fall; pride comes before a fall; the proud Heike family does not last long [literal] - proverb

noun:

• business center of a city (centre)
• business center of a hotel (providing fax & copy services, etc.)

expression:

• pride goes before a fall; pride comes before a fall; the proud Heike family does not last long [literal] - proverb ➜ 奢る平家久しからず【おごるへいけひさしからず】

expression / ichidan verb:

• to sleep together (for a man and a woman); to bring one's bodies together (e.g. for warmth)

adjectival noun:

• a long time (since the last time); it's been a while (since I last saw, mailed, etc., you) - Nagoya (and surrounding areas) dialect ➜ 久しぶり【ひさしぶり】

noun:

• approx. 80% of the way up a mountainside
• view of a light green mountain; mountain that appears green from afar

noun:

• hired foreigner; foreign advisor hired by the Japanese government for their specialized knowledge to assist in the modernization of Japan at the end of the Bakufu and during the Meiji Era

noun:

• room; chamber
• monk in charge of business in the monks' quarters
• bedroom (of a married couple)
• locule (in a plant ovary)
• atria and ventricles

noun / ~する noun:

• suspension; interruption; stoppage; ban; standstill; halt; hang-up; deadlock; stalemate; abeyance - usu. ていし
• suspension of music, dance, etc. as a sign of mourning for a prominent person ［ちょうじ］

expression:

• a great distance does not detract from the feeling (relationship) of endearment; feeling as though a dear one faraway were living in one's close neighborhood - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• assignment (of a person to somewhere); attachment (of a person to another unit, organization, etc.)

noun:

• first 17-syllable verse of a renga ➜ 揚げ句【あげく】
• haiku
• first five-syllable line of a tanka

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to make a blunder; to bungle; to mess up; to make a foolish mistake

adverb / ~と adverb:

• all together in a line; all together in a lump - archaism - onomatopoeia
• dressed sloppily; overdressed for the occasion

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to take an attitude; to take a stance; to commit oneself; to assume a position

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to have a terrible time; to have a hard time ➜ 目にあう【めにあう】