noun:

• older brother; elder brother - honorific language ➜ お兄さん
• brother (as older-brother figure in friendly and or work relationship)
• young man; buddy; fella; laddie - vocative

noun:

• national parliament or congress building (e.g. National Diet Building (Japan), United States Capitol (USA), Houses of Parliament (UK), etc.)

noun:

• two-dimensional complex; people more interested in two-dimensional (i.e. anime or manga) girls than real people

noun / ~する noun:

• selling on the market (in the marketplace, in stores, etc.); making something commercially available

~の noun:

• commercial (e.g. software); over-the-counter; off-the-shelf; store-bought

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to place one's arms under those of the opponent and lift them up, in order to prevent an overhand grip on one's mawashi - Sumo term

noun:

• collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first Day of the Rat of the New Year) - obscure term ➜ 子の日の遊び

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to introduce oneself; to announce oneself (e.g. as the person sought); to come forward (e.g. as a witness, with a claim, etc.)

noun:

• being driven to the wall; finding oneself between the devil and the deep blue sea; finding oneself between a rock and a hard place - four character idiom

adverbial noun / temporal noun / ~の noun:

• whole life; a lifetime; all through life; one existence; a generation; an age; the whole world; the era

~の noun:

• (the only, the greatest, etc.) of one's life

noun:

• hold music; music on hold; hold tone

noun:

• adult child; adult children; adult person psychologically traumatized from being raised in an abusive or dysfunctional family (e.g. by alcoholic parents)

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to show appreciation for (efforts, esp. by someone of equal or lower status); to thank for; to reward for

expression / ichidan verb:

• to signal the winner of a match (by the referee raising his fan towards the winner) - Sumo term
• to declare someone the winner (of a competition)

expression:

• the word of a wise man is worth the words of one thousand fools; one thousand chirps of sparrows, one cry of a crane [literal] - proverb

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• pointed; sharp ➜ 尖る【とがる】
• sharp (e.g. voice); on edge (e.g. nerves) ➜ 尖る【とがる】
• outstanding; cutting edge; superior

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to obtain; to come into possession of; to get hold of; to get one's hands on

godan ~る verb:

• to Google (i.e. to search for on the WWW using the Google search engine) - colloquialism

noun:

• there; that situation; that occasion
• the spot (i.e. "on the spot"); immediately; then and there

noun:

• burning of New Year's gate decorations (usu. on the 15th day of the New Year) ➜ どんど

noun:

• burning of New Year's gate decorations (usu. on the 15th day of the New Year) ➜ どんど

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to rest in peace; to attain eternal rest - usu. neg. ➜ 浮かばれない【うかばれない】
• to gain recognition; to get on in the world

noun:

• bonfire often in temple grounds, usu. of charms, talismans, New Year decorations, etc. - Shintō term
• ritual burning of money, cedar sticks, or other objects as an offering ➜ 護摩【ごま】

noun:

• hanging; something hanging (i.e. a flap, lappet, etc.)
• sauce for dipping, etc. made from soy sauce, mirin, vinegar and dashi - also タレ - usually written using kana alone
• (in kendo) loin guard
• kanji radical enclosing the top-left corner of a character

suffix noun:

• -ass; -head - used after a noun or na-adjective indicating someone's nature; also ったれ - derogatory term

noun:

• driving; pounding in; shooting into; implantation; invasion
• falling badly in love
• putting (one's heart) into
• step recording (in electronic or computer music) - IT term

noun:

• soup with fried tofu, shiitake mushrooms, carrots, sweet potatoes and daikon flavored with salt or soy sauce and thickened with potato starch ➜ 濃餅