noun:

• people's history (written for the king of China; usu. written as a novel) ➜ 稗官

noun:

• draft of magazine's content (a table showing the allocation of each page)

noun:

• woman in waiting in the inner part of a lord's mansion (Edo period) - archaism ➜ 御殿女中

noun:

• the art of giving a brief glimpse of something (e.g. one's underwear)

expression / noun:

• mountain god ［やまのかみ］
• one's wife (esp. a nagging wife) ［やまのかみ］ - humorous term
• roughskin sculpin (Trachidermus fasciatus) - usually written using kana alone

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be able to hold one's head up (of a baby)

noun:

• marriage in which a man is adopted into the bride's family; matrilocal marriage ➜ 婿入り婚

noun:

• deutomerite; posterior sac; posterior chamber - Medicine term
• women's quarters at the rear of a house

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to wring (towel, rag); to squeeze - esp. 絞る
• to squeeze (fruit to extract juice); to press; to extract; to milk; to express milk - esp. 搾る
• to rack (one's brains); to strain (one's voice)
• to extort; to exploit
• to chew out; to reprimand severely; to rake over the coals; to give a sound scolding; to tell someone off; to scold; to rebuke - often passive voice ➜ 油を絞る
• to drill into; to train
• to narrow down (one's focus); to whittle down
• to gather up (curtain, etc.); to tighten (drawstring)
• to stop down (lens)
• to turn down (e.g. radio)
• to bend (bow); to draw
• to hold down; to constrict; to immobilize - Sumo term

noun / ~する noun:

• changing household registry; transfer (e.g. of one's name in the register)
• transferring to a different team - Sports term

pronoun:

• we; us
• I; me - archaism
• you (referring to a group of one's equals or inferiors) - archaism

noun:

• passion; sexual desire; lust
• attachment (esp. to one's family or a member of the opposite sex) - Buddhism term

expression / noun:

• by a hair's breadth; in the nick of time; touch and go; close call; critical moment - four character idiom

expression:

• one's word is worth 1,000 pieces of gold; a promise should be kept at all cost - four character idiom

noun:

• recouping one's strength for a renewed attack (on); making another attempt with redoubled efforts - four character idiom

noun:

• functioning cuff buttons on a jacket (i.e. those that can be buttoned and unbuttoned) ➜ 本開き
• surgeon's cuffs

noun:

• functioning cuff buttons on a jacket (i.e. those that can be buttoned and unbuttoned) ➜ 本切羽
• surgeon's cuffs

noun:

• Dutch disease; decline in a country's manufacturing sector owing to increased exploitation of natural resources - Business term

noun:

• dyeing one's hair oneself (as opposed to having it done by a hairdresser) - From English "self colour"

noun / ~する noun:

• agitating other players in a multiplayer or online game by rapidly moving one's avatar left and right - abbr. of シャア専用ゲルググのダンス - slang

noun / ~する noun:

• carrying out one's words; being as good as one's word; making good on one's promise - four character idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to lose one's cool; to blow one's top; to flip one's lid; to get angry

noun:

• waiting for one tile to finish one's pair and one's hand while the rest of one's hand is exposed; waiting for half of one's pair with four melds exposed - Mahjong term ➜ 単騎待ち【たんきまち】

adverb:

• a little; a bit; slightly ➜ ちょっと
• just a minute; for a moment; briefly ➜ ちょっと
• somewhat; rather; fairly; pretty; quite ➜ ちょっと

adjectival noun / noun:

• spare time; free time; leisure

noun:

• time (e.g. time it takes to do something) ［ひま・ヒマ］

adjectival noun / noun:

• time off; day off; vacation; holiday; leave
• quitting (one's job); firing someone; divorcing (one's spouse)

adjectival noun:

• (of one's time) free; (of one's business) slow ［ひま・ヒマ］

noun:

• leaving; departing ［いとま］ ➜ 御暇