noun:

• hiragana; cursive Japanese syllabary used primarily for native Japanese words (esp. function words, inflections, etc.) ➜ 片仮名

noun / ~する noun:

• service; ministry; attendance; church work
• offering goods at a reduced price; providing a service for free

noun / ~する noun:

• girl hunt; trying to pick up a girl; looking for a girlfriend ➜ ボーイハント

noun:

• bunt performed for a base hit - Baseball term - From English "safety bunt" ➜ 犠牲バント

noun:

• tooth hardening toy (for infants); teether; teething ring
• tooth hardening meal; New Year's feast

noun:

• starting point for an ascent (mountain, stairs, etc.); base (of mountain, etc.) - esp. 上 for stairs, 登 for mountain

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• tender sentiments; being overcome with emotions; having a tender feeling (for a person) - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• working on a day off (to make up for lost time, or to make an impression)

noun:

• small okurigana used with kanbun
• small kana used for diphthongs (ya, yo, yu, i, etc.)

noun:

• lay ancestral hall; hall on temple grounds for holding mortuary tablets of lay parishioners
• small shrine

expression:

• unable to find adequate words (e.g. to express feelings); being at a loss for words

noun:

• day of national humiliation (used in China for certain anniversaries of incidents where Japan humiliated China)

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to commiserate; to pity; to have mercy on; to sympathize with; to sympathise with
• to enjoy the beauty of; to appreciate (e.g. the moon, flowers) ［哀れむ］ - archaism

noun:

• taking over (e.g. store or family's headship)
• subrogation; substitution of one person for another (usu. a creditor)

noun / ~する noun:

• riding in the same carriage (car) (with a superior); attending on (one's superior) in the same carriage

conjunction:

• If that's the case ...; If so ...; That being the case ...

noun:

• seafood; products of the sea; marine products; fruits of the sea ➜ 山の幸

noun:

• top of the foot; instep; dorsum of the foot; dorsum pedis

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to flutter in the wind; to wave in the wind

noun:

• seafood; products of the sea; marine products; fruits of the sea ➜ 山幸

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be to the point; to hit the mark; to be relevant

noun:

• being narrow in the middle; something narrow in the middle - obscure term
• mallet - archaism ➜ 杵

noun:

• first wind of the season (esp. the first wind of autumn) - archaism

noun:

• the Seven Wise Men (of Greece); the Seven Sages of Greece ➜ 七賢

expression / godan ~る verb (irregular) / intransitive verb:

• to be worth the effort; to be worth the trouble