noun:

• East Asian age reckoning; traditional system of age reckoning whereby newborns are considered one year old and on New Year's Day one year is added to everyone's age

noun / ~する noun:

• invoking a deity during a festival held in that deity's honor
• medium's invocation of a deity to take possession of her (to receive his divine message or revelation) ➜ 巫女【みこ】

noun:

• East Asian age reckoning; traditional system of age reckoning whereby newborns are considered one year old and on New Year's Day one year is added to everyone's age - abbreviation ➜ 数え年【かぞえどし】

noun / ~の noun:

• sophistication; wordly wisdom

~する noun:

• to lose one's innocence; to get sophisticated; to get to know the world by being in contact with people; to lose one's naivete

noun:

• man who takes his wife's family name and marries into her family; man who is adopted by his wife's family

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to poke (repeatedly, lightly); to nudge ➜ 突く【つつく】
• to peck at (one's food); to pick at
• to peck at (someone's faults, etc.)
• to egg on; to put up to

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to lose a battle to win the war; to incur damage so as to inflict greater damage on a foe; to allow one's flesh to be cut in order to sever another's bone [literal] - idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to lose a battle to win the war; to incur damage so as to inflict greater damage on a foe; to allow one's flesh to be cut in order to sever another's bone [literal] - idiom

noun:

• taste (of a liquid, esp. alcoholic beverages) - usu. のみくち
• someone who enjoys alcohol
• place one's lips touch on the rim of a cup
• shape of one's mouth when drinking
• tap; faucet; spigot - usu. のみぐち

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to poke (repeatedly, lightly); to nudge
• to peck at (one's food); to pick at
• to peck at (someone's faults, etc.)
• to egg on; to put up to

adjectival noun / noun:

• throwing one's weight around in a small group without knowing one's real worth in a larger world outside; being a big fish in a small pond - four character idiom

ichidan verb:

• to scatter; to disperse
• to spend on; to squander (e.g. one's fortune)
• to chase away (e.g. one's worries); to kill (pain)

ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs):

• to scatter; to disperse
• to spend on; to squander (e.g. one's fortune)
• to chase away (e.g. one's worries); to kill (pain)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to save an enemy from trouble instead of taking advantage of their weakness; to show humanity even to one's enemy; to help one's enemy in difficulty - from Uesugi Kenshin sending salt to his enemy, Takeda Shingen, when Takeda's salt supply had been cut off

expression / ichidan verb:

• to think about; to send one's heart out to; to give more than a passing thought to; to think of something far away; to think nostalgically upon (esp. one's hometown) ➜ 思いを致す

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to grab a person by his vulnerable spot; to curry favour with one's superior; to curry favor with one's superior

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to take one's place; to take one's position; to go into position; to line up

upper nidan verb (archaic) / intransitive verb:

• to fall down; to drop; to fall (e.g. rain); to sink (e.g. sun or moon); to fall onto (e.g. light or one's gaze) - archaism ➜ 落ちる
• to be omitted; to be missing - archaism ➜ 落ちる
• to crash; to degenerate; to degrade; to fall behind - archaism ➜ 落ちる
• to be removed (e.g. illness, possessing spirit, name on a list) - archaism ➜ 落ちる
• to fall (into someone's hands); to become someone's possession - archaism ➜ 落ちる
• to fall; to be defeated; to surrender - archaism ➜ 落ちる

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to tie up in a bundle (e.g. straw, hair, bills, letters); to bundle; to sheathe
• to govern; to manage; to control; to administer
• to fold (one's arms); to put together (one's hands) ［つかねる］

godan ~う verb:

• to lie on one's stomach; to sleep while lying on one's stomach; to crawl on the ground; to sprawl

noun:

• bystander's vantage point; outsider's better grasp of the situation - four character idiom

expression:

• onlookers see more of the game than the players do; people watching a game of go see 8 moves further ahead [literal]

noun / ~する noun:

• life plan; plan for one's life; planning one's life

expression / noun:

• one's last hope; one's only hope; the last hope

noun / ~する noun:

• standing on tiptoe and stretching one's back to make oneself taller; stretching oneself
• overreaching oneself; overstretching oneself; trying to do something beyond one's ability; pushing to the limit

ichidan verb:

• to put someone to work; to make someone work ➜ 働かす
• to use; to apply; to exert; to exercise (restraint, one's imagination, one's brain, etc.)