noun:

• taxing one's ingenuity in devising something; agonizing over designing or creating something; making strenuous efforts to devise good ways and means to do something - four character idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to cross one's mind; to occur to one; to flash into one's head

noun:

• forming a four-of-a-kind by adding a self-drawn tile to an open three-of-a-kind - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 加槓・槓

noun:

• language used by the harlots of the Yoshiwara red light district during the Edo period ➜ ありんすことば

noun:

• private school that allows students to advance from one stage of education to the next, often kindergarten to university, without taking entrance exams en route; escalator school [literal] - colloquialism ➜ エスカレーター校

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• vigorous for one's age; active despite one's years; hale and hearty; full of beans - onomatopoeia

noun:

• making a show of one's faults

godan ~く verb:

• to recover one's strength; to recover one's spirit; to revive; to be refreshed; to be invigorated; to be encouraged

noun:

• depending on one's point of view

noun:

• (of a website) being delisted or censored by the Google search engine

noun:

• crouched walk treading on hands for stealth used by ninja

expression / adjectival noun:

• in one's senses; sane

noun:

• forming by hand (instead of using a potter's wheel, etc.); handwork

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be drawn in by something wicked; to be won over by something wicked - archaism

expression:

• a meeting by chance is preordained - proverb ➜ 袖振り合うも他生の縁

expression:

• wasting one's efforts; rendering one's efforts futile - idiom

numeric:

• one-thousandth; 0.03 mm (one-thousandth of a sun); 0.01 percent (one-thousandth of a wari); 3.75 milligrams (one-thousandth of a monme)

noun:

• old monetary unit (0.0001 yen)

noun:

• impression given by a painting or image

noun:

• one's life as a consumer

noun:

• one's fate (fortune) as concerns business

noun:

• apple of one's eye

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to dirty one's hands

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to throw one's chest out; to hold one's head high ➜ そっくり返る

noun:

• fraudulent way of business, cajoling people into buying articles for an extremely high price by claiming they will bring good luck - four character idiom

noun:

• elm bark clothes traditionally worn by the Ainu; elm bark textile - From Ainu