noun:

• Jacquerie; uprising in France in 1358 ➜ ジャックリーの乱

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to break; to snap; to be cut; to split; to crack
• to be injured
• to wear out; to be worn out
• to break; to burst; to collapse
• to wear off; to stop working; to go dead
• to expire (time limit, etc.); to run out; to become due
• to run out (of stock, etc.); to be exhausted; to be used up; to be sold out; to be out of
• to be broken off (e.g. of a relationship); to break up; to have severed ties; to be cut off; to be disconnected
• to cut well; to be sharp
• to be sharp-minded; to be keen; to be shrewd; to be quick-witted; to be able
• to be short of; to drop under (a certain figure); to beat (e.g. a record time)
• to dry off
• to curve; to veer
• to shuffle (cards)
• to get angry; to snap; to blow one's top; to lose one's temper; to flip - colloquialism ➜ キレる

auxiliary verb / ichidan verb:

• to be able to do completely - after the -masu stem of a verb - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• turning point; turnaround point (e.g. in a race); turning back point

expression / ichidan verb:

• to get involved (with); to begin (with); to have a hand (in)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to have (a) potential for ...; to have it in one to do

noun:

• turning point; turnaround point (e.g. in a race); turning back point ➜ 折り返し点【おりかえしてん】

noun / ~する noun:

• entering a temple; visiting a temple
• joining a temple as a priest or head priest - obscure term

noun:

• office; official - usu. 官,司,寮 - archaism
• chief; head - usu. 首,長
• (Yaeyama Islands in Okinawa) person (usually a woman) whose duty it is to officiate at religions ceremonies ［司］

noun:

• behind; trailing in points (e.g. in sports)

noun / ~する noun:

• being deliberate in council, and decisive in action - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• germination; pregnancy
• arising (in); resulting (from); originating (in)

noun:

• (space) filler; fill-in (in magazines, newspapers, etc.) - four character idiom

noun:

• country; countryside
• outskirts; suburbs

prefix:

• situated in; resident in

~の noun / adverb:

• in tatters; in pieces; wiped out

noun:

• Jacquerie; uprising in France in 1358

noun:

• attitude that with the state as one's boss, normal fiscal accountability can be dispensed with; dependence on the central government; attitude of those who assume their jobs are safe because they are government employees

expression:

• the best flowers are the cherry blossoms, the best individuals are the samurai; as the cherry blossom is first among flowers, so is the samurai first among men - proverb

suffix / adjective:

• extremely; in the extreme; knows no bounds (e.g. rudeness); unparalleled - suffix often in kana

adjective:

• boundless (e.g. universe, ocean); limitless

noun:

• sea sand (sand collected from the ocean floor, as opposed to that which is used as an ingredient in concrete)

noun / ~する noun:

• preaching down; breaking down somebody's false beliefs through confrontation (in order to convert them to the right faith) - Buddhism term

noun:

• people from overseas, especially from China and Korea, who settled in early Japan and introduced Continental culture to the Japanese

adverb:

• too; also; likewise; either
• still; as before
• even so; either way; nonetheless; in any event; all the same
• as expected

noun:

• city pop; Japanese music genre popular in the 1980's

noun:

• bai zhi (Chinese name for angelica species Angelica dahurica); traditional Chinese cure made from the root of this plant ➜ 鎧草
• Heracleum nipponicum (species of hogweed) ➜ 花独活

noun:

• housewife; mistress (of the house); homemaker