noun:

• glutinous rice with red beans (eaten on celebratory occasions); mochi rice with red beans

adverb:

• holding horizontally in one's mouth; holding on the side of one's mouth

expression:

• putting the cart before the horse; putting the diapers on before (the baby) is born [literal] - idiom

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to be loath to; to balk at (doing); to grudge (doing); to spare (oneself); to be weary of; to shun; to dislike (an activity, an environment); to hate (an activity)
• to take (good) care of

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to bite into; to sink one's teeth into
• to stick to; to cling to; to hold on to ［かじりつく］

noun:

• (in Japan) 3rd note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. E) ➜ 十二律・太簇
• (in gagaku) scale similar to the Dorian mode on E ➜ 律旋・六調子

noun:

• student taking (university) entrance exams while still enrolled in school; student who passed their university entrance exams on the first try ➜ 現役

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to search (for something desired, needed); to look for - esp. 探す
• to search (for something lost); to seek (a suspect in a crime) - esp. 捜す

noun:

• head of a garden; kindergarten principal; nursery school principal; park director (botanical garden); zoo director (zoological garden); head of a plantation

expression:

• helping and protecting in all ways; acting as a raincoat (protecting from rain) and acting as a hat (protecting from sun) [literal] - proverb ➜ 陰になり日向になり【かげになりひなたになり】

expression:

• it is darkest under the lamp post; it's hard to see what is under your nose; go abroad to hear of home; you must go into the country to hear what news at London - proverb

noun:

• thank God it's Friday; TGIF; going out on Friday night; flowery Friday (when young men et al. stay out late) [literal] - from 花の金曜日

expression / adverb:

• before very long; soon; someday; one of these days; sooner or later
• of the previously mentioned; of that number; among them; among others

noun:

• child in elementary or middle school
• go-between; intermediary; middleman; mediator; intercessor ➜ 仲人【ちゅうにん】
• person of middling talent, strength, etc. ［ちゅうじん］ - archaism
• middle-class person; bourgeois person ［ちゅうじん］ - archaism

noun:

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

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to tell (to do); to order; to charge; to direct
• to tell on (someone); to tattle; to report
• to often say

noun:

• hardship now, pleasure later; seeking pleasure only after dealing with difficulties; seeking pleasure only after the happiness of the people is assured (a precept to be observed by a ruler) - four character idiom

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to think of as the main point; to make the main purpose; to put the focus on ➜ 主眼

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to settle (a problem); to put an end to (a dispute); to be disposed of; to be settled; to come to an end ➜ 片付く

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to load (a gun, etc.); to charge
• to put into (e.g. emotion, effort)
• to include (e.g. tax in a sales price)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to hang over; to shroud; to enshroud; to envelop; to screen ➜ 立ち込める

adverb:

• purposely (of something needless, unexpected or seemingly counterproductive, etc.); daringly (doing something); deliberately; intentionally
• not necessarily; not particularly; not especially - used with neg. verb
• definitely not - used with neg. verb - archaism

noun:

• roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides); mawworm; intestinal worm
• (metaphor for) location of one's feelings or sentiments ➜ 腹の虫が治まらない【はらのむしがおさまらない】
• (metaphor for) empty stomach; feeling of hunger ➜ 腹の虫が鳴る【はらのむしがなる】

noun:

• woman working in the nightlife business (bar or nightclub hostess, geisha, etc.); woman who works in an adult entertainment business; demimondaine; prostitute ➜ 商売人

noun:

• Dragon's beard candy; Chinese cotton candy; Chinese pastry, similar to Turkish pishmaniye or Persian pashmak (thin pastry threads outside, filling inside) - Food term ➜ 竜の髭

godan ~つ verb / intransitive verb:

• to be fragrant; to give out a smell; to be enveloped in a smell
• to be radiant; to be attractive