noun:

• give water to a dying person; water given to a dying person

noun:

• favorite snack to have with drinks; favourite snack to have with drinks

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to put out one's tongue; to stick out one's tongue

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to wait for a favorable chance; to wait for a favourable chance

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to have one's wish realized; to have one's wish realised

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to shake each other's hands; to shake hands with each other

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to pucker up one's lips; to purse up one's lips

expression / ichidan verb:

• to put someone off his guard; to throw someone off his guard

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to start (e.g. a scene, a war, etc.)
• to end (e.g. a play, an episode, an event, etc.)

expression:

• those who wish to rule the land must first cultivate their own characters, then manage their families, then govern their states; only then can they bring peace to the land (a mantra of Confucianism) - proverb

expression:

• avarice brings doom upon oneself; if a hawk-eagle tries to catch two boars at once, the boars will try to run in opposite directions, splitting the hawk-eagle into two and killing it - proverb

expression:

• (particularly) when ... (often in phrases like "the bus just has to be on-time when we are late"); (only) for ...; if we are restricting the discussion to...; in the particular case of

noun:

• person in the online community who seeks to identify others from the information they post online, or who tries to identify places and objects that appear in comics or games - derogatory term - slang

noun / ~する noun:

• being at a complete loss as to what to do; being at one's wit's end; being at a loss for an answer - four character idiom

noun:

• Shoki the Plague-Queller; Zhong Kui (traditional Chinese deity said to prevent plagues and ward off evil beings); vanquisher of ghosts and evil beings, and reputedly able to command 80,000 demons
• Shoki (WWII fighter aircraft)

noun:

• armpit; under one's arm; side; flank
• beside; close to; near; by - also written as 傍, 側
• aside; to the side; away; out of the way
• off-track; off-topic
• deuteragonist; supporting role - usu. written ワキ in Noh
• second verse (in a linked series of poems) - abbreviation ➜ 脇句

noun:

• counter
• service counter (e.g. at a bank)
• counter (at a bar, cafe, etc.)
• automatically responding with an upload slot to someone who allows you to download (e.g. in P2P systems) - IT term ➜ カウ・モニター

noun:

• ruby - esp. ルビー
• ruby character; small hiragana or katakana readings of kanji usually above or to the side of the kanji (esp. used by printers and in ref. to printed material) - esp. ルビ
• Ruby (programming language) ［ルビー］ - IT term

noun:

• method of dyeing in which a color repeatedly goes from dense to diffuse, diffuse to dense - imported from western China and used in Buddhist pictures, temple ornaments, etc., during the Nara and Heian periods

noun:

• lucky-number request (the person who is the Nth visitor to a web site gets to make a request, e.g. for a custom drawing, where N is a special number like 10000) - from キリ番 and リクエスト - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ キリ番・リクエスト

expression / ~する verb (spec.):

• to be embarrassed for a reply; to be at a loss for a reply ➜ 返答に詰まる

expression:

• the law has holes large enough for the most wicked men to slip through; the long arm of the law doesn't reach everywhere; fishes big enough to eat boats aren't caught by the net [literal] - proverb

noun:

• musical note; note symbol
• phonetic symbol (incl. the kanji and kana-doubling symbols, vowel-lengthening symbol, etc.)
• part of a kanji for which the role is primarily to represent the pronunciation (as opposed to the meaning) ➜ 意符

noun / ~する noun:

• performing a part in one's own play; playing a musical piece that one has written - four character idiom
• doing everything by oneself (from preparation to execution)
• put-up job; charade
• sock-puppeting (i.e. pretending to be more than one person on the Internet)

noun:

• the wise readily adapt themselves to changed circumstances; the wise are quick to acknowledge their mistakes and correct them - four character idiom
• (in colloquial usage, ironically or as an excuse) the wise make no scruple in suddenly changing their demeanor