noun:

• East Asian age reckoning; traditional system of age reckoning whereby newborns are considered one year old and on New Year's Day one year is added to everyone's age - abbreviation ➜ 数え年【かぞえどし】

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to fall apart; to collapse; to become useless
• to be completely defeated (in battle); to be wiped out
• to fall apart (one's body or health) - archaism

noun:

• getting one's finger caught (e.g. in a door); getting one's finger pinched; jamming one's finger in a door ➜ 指を詰める
• yakuza finger-cutting ritual

noun:

• intermediate color; intermediate colour; neutral color or tint; neutral colour

noun:

• having an open hand and no end or honor tiles (yaku, not allowed in some rules); having only suited tiles between 2 and 8 inclusive and having called tiles - Mahjong term ➜ 断ヤオ九

~の noun / adjectival noun / noun / prefix noun:

• raw; uncooked; fresh
• natural; as it is; unedited; unprocessed
• unprotected (i.e. not wearing a condom) - colloquialism
• live (i.e. not recorded)
• inexperienced; unpolished; green; crude
• impudence; sauciness - abbreviation ➜ 生意気
• unpasteurized beer; draft beer; draught beer - abbreviation ➜ 生ビール

prefix:

• just a little; somehow; vaguely; partially; somewhat; half-; semi-
• irresponsibly; half-baked

noun:

• cash - archaism
• tipsiness - abbreviation ➜ 生酔い

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to permit; to allow; to approve; to consent to
• to forgive; to pardon; to excuse; to tolerate
• to exempt (someone) from; to remit; to release; to let off
• to acknowledge; to admit ➜ 自他ともに許す
• to trust; to confide in; to let one's guard down ➜ 心を許す・気を許す
• to give up (points in a game, distance in a race, etc.); to yield

noun:

• appointment or dismissal conjecturally reported in the media (esp. when the conjecture turned out to be wrong); announcement of an appointment that turns out to be mere press speculation - four character idiom

noun:

• two books on the art of war in ancient China; the secrets (essence) of the art of war; secrets of successful life; precepts for living - four character idiom

conjunction / interjection:

• come; come now; come along; go on; hurry up
• well; who knows; I don't know...; uh; hmm
• well now; let's see; there we go; all right - said when surprised or happy
• about that; you see

noun:

• seeking one's own interests; straining (the interpretation or argument) to suit one's own interests; drawing water for one's own field - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to violate the law; to have a brush with the law; to have a run-in with the law

ichidan verb:

• to scatter; to disperse
• to spend on; to squander (e.g. one's fortune)
• to chase away (e.g. one's worries); to kill (pain)

ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs):

• to scatter; to disperse
• to spend on; to squander (e.g. one's fortune)
• to chase away (e.g. one's worries); to kill (pain)

noun:

• near one's knee
• under the protection of (e.g. one's parents); under the care of
• territory of a powerful person ［ひざもと］ ➜ お膝元
• address used after the names of one's parents, grandparents, etc. in a letter ［しっか］

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to drain; to pour; to spill; to shed (blood, tears) ➜ 涙を流す
• to wash away
• to distribute (e.g. electricity over wires, music over a PA system, etc.); to circulate; to broadcast; to beam
• to cruise (e.g. taxi)
• to float; to set adrift
• to call off (a meeting, etc.)
• to exile; to banish

noun:

• pattern; figure; design
• state; condition
• conjecture of the current situation; the way it seems
• model; pattern; example
• indicates that something seems likely (e.g. rain or storm) - after a noun
• framework (in go); territorial framework; moyo

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb / transitive:

• to open; to undo; to unseal; to unpack
• to bloom; to unfold; to spread out
• to open (for business, e.g. in the morning)
• to be wide (gap, etc.); to widen

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to hold (meeting, etc.); to give; to open
• to found (nation, dynasty, sect, etc.); to open (a new business); to set up; to establish; to start
• to open (ports, borders, etc.)
• to open (an account)
• to open up (new land, path, etc.); to clear; to develop ➜ 拓く
• to open (a file, etc.) - IT term
• to extract (root); to reduce (equation) - Mathematics term
• to cut open (fish) - as 魚を開く - Food term
• to change (kanji into hiragana)

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to flare (e.g. skirt)
• to slacken (into a poor posture) - as 体が開く, 肩が開く, etc. - Sports term

noun:

• attitude that with the state as one's boss, normal fiscal accountability can be dispensed with; dependence on the central government; attitude of those who assume their jobs are safe because they are government employees

noun:

• step; stair; (flight of) steps; (row of) stitches; columns (of print)

noun / counter:

• grade; rank; level

counter:

• counter for breaks in written language (or speech, etc.)
• dan; senior rank in martial arts, go, shogi, etc. ➜ 級【きゅう】

noun / ~する noun:

• crossing; traversing
• traversing horizontally; passing west to east (or east to west)
• cutting horizontally

noun:

• dressing (vegetables, fish, etc.) with vinegar; vegetables (or fish, etc.) dressed with vinegar

noun:

• call of a wild goose
• wild goose (esp. a lesser white-fronted goose, Anser erythropus) - usually written using kana alone
• tea made from twigs of high-quality tea plants (esp. gyokuro); high-grade kukicha (esp. from gyokuro) ➜ 茎茶・玉露

adjective:

• sweet-tasting; sweet; sugary; sugared
• fragrant (smelling); sweet (music)
• lightly salted; light in salt; not spicy
• naive; overly optimistic; soft on; generous; indulgent; easy-going; lenient ➜ 甘く見る
• half-hearted; not finished properly
• insufficient; not satisfactory; inadequate; loose
• mild
• tempting; enticing; luring ➜ 甘い言葉

expression:

• a little while later; for a little while; some time later; for some time; presently