noun:

• staple; stapler clip
• staple (food, crop)
• staple (fiber) ➜ ステープルファイバー
• cable clip; clip used to attach electrical cable to wooden building material ➜ ステップル

expression:

• to each their own; different strokes for different folks; cut your coat to suit your cloth; a crab digs a hole like its own shell [literal] - idiom

noun:

• using a meat ax when a knife would suffice; taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut; using a grand-scale measure (a massive instrument) to deal with an insignificant problem

noun:

• Tokyo near-field earthquake; large-scale earthquake expected to directly hit the Kanto area sometime in the future; also refers to the 1855 and 1894 Edo/Tokyo earthquakes

noun:

• Tokyo near-field earthquake; large-scale earthquake expected to directly hit the Kanto area sometime in the future; also refers to the 1855 and 1894 Edo/Tokyo earthquakes

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to make a lovely picture; to be perfect for a picture - idiom

expression / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• picture-perfect; picturesque - idiom

noun:

• Roche limit; Roche's limit (closest that a natural satellite can come to the center of a planet without disintegrating due to tidal forces)

expression:

• experience is the best teacher; custom makes all things easy; you learn best by doing; practice makes perfect; it is better to grow accustomed than to be taught [literal]

noun / ~の noun:

• other (place, thing, person); the rest
• outside; beyond - esp. 外 - usually written using kana alone

adverbial noun:

• nothing except; nothing but; nothing apart from; nothing aside from; no choice (but to) - as 〜ほか〜ない, usu. after より or the dictionary form of a verb - usually written using kana alone ➜ ほかない
• besides...; in addition to... - often as ほかに

expression:

• So many people, so many minds; Everyone has his own ideas and tastes; It takes all sorts to make a world; To each his (her) own - four character idiom

adverb / noun:

• unsparingly; without listening to the other party; without giving the other party a chance to explain

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to all come in (e.g. teeth); to all come out (e.g. seedlings, flowers)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to spend all of one's free time; to spend one's time without constraint

noun:

• Bizen sword (mid-Heian to early Kamakura periods)
• ancient Bizen ware (Kamakura to early Momoyama periods) ➜ 備前焼

noun:

• request for a police search; application to the police to search for a missing person

expression:

• not negligible; not a little; to no small degree; to no small extent; quite a lot

expression / adjective:

• to not understand what somebody is getting at; to not understand what is being talked about

expression:

• learn to crawl before you learn to walk; until you ride a horse, ride a cow [literal] - proverb

noun / suffix noun:

• bodhisattva; one who has reached enlightenment but vows to save all beings before becoming a buddha - Buddhism term
• High Monk (title bestowed by the imperial court)
• title bestowed to Shinto kami in manifestation theory ➜ 本地垂迹説

adverb:

• or; otherwise
• furthermore; also
• perhaps; by some chance; possibly - archaism
• that being said; be that as it may - archaism
• however; but - archaism
• not to mention; needless to say - archaism
• as expected; sure enough - archaism
• really; at all - used to express emphatic denial, suspicion, or emotion - archaism

noun:

• how to manage (e.g. case); how to handle (e.g. machine); way with (e.g. children, animal)

expression:

• just as it is reassuring to have a companion when traveling, it is important for us to care for each other as we pass through this life

noun:

• sword-bearer (subordinate whose job it is to hold their master's sword)
• rikishi carrying a sword who follows the yokozuna to the ring during his ring-entering ceremony - Sumo term

expression:

• it's hard to cut one's ties to close relatives even if they are wicked; you don't cut your finger off just because it's dirty [literal] - proverb

godan ~る verb:

• to ride on a person's shoulders; to be carried on a person's back