godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to extract (e.g. a passage from a book); to make an excerpt

noun:

• chopsticks used to move food from a serving dish to one's own dish ➜ 取り皿

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to take a lesson from (a wise person); to follow in the footsteps of - idiom

expression:

• "Revere heaven, love people." (favorite motto of Saigo Takamori, 1827-1877) - four character idiom

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to buy (of a government, public agency, etc. from a private citizen); to purchase
• to buy up (all of something)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to run past from behind; to run through (e.g. gate, one's mind)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to have a good eye (from having seen fine art, etc.); to be a connoisseur ➜ 肥える

noun / ~する noun:

• generation-to-generation instruction from master to disciple - four character idiom

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to let down one's guard; to relax one's guard

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to have the (full, general) selection available; to have (a lineup) from A to Z; to have the full array of

noun:

• neurasthenia; nervous breakdown - four character idiom
• concentration (card game involving turning over face-down cards to find identical pairs)

expression:

• inscrutable are the ways of heaven; fortune is unpredictable and changeable - proverb

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be lonely at the top; to be left high and dry by one's friends; to have the ladder pulled out from under one [literal]

noun:

• niche or alcove for an image
• (in Okinawa) portable shrine used to move a deceased from their house to the graveyard

expression / adjective:

• depressed; bummed out; down; heavy-hearted; heavy-spirited; feeling reluctant (to do)

temporal noun:

• from (since) ancient times; from time immemorial - four character idiom

noun:

• an adult-age eldest son who has yet to come into his inheritance; (a young adult still) living at home; a dependent

noun:

• amount deducted (from); deduction (from); abatement

noun:

• highway (esp. one existing from the Edo period); main road
• highway (e.g. to success); path (to becoming ...) ➜ 出世街道【しゅっせかいどう】

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to become empty (hollow)
• to relax from a tense situation into a vacant or absent minded state

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to catch 'the stupid' (e.g. from talking to stupid people, watching mindless TV, etc.) - colloquialism

noun:

• thrice moving from house to house
• the importance of creating an environment conducive to a child's learning - abbreviation ➜ 三遷の教え

expression:

• it is no crime to steal flowers; phrase used to justify picking flowers from others' gardens, parks, etc. - proverb

expression / godan ~う verb:

• I don't want to hear it from you; are you in any position to say that?

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to talk around something (exp. derived from having something stuck in your back teeth and thus be unable to speak clearly); to imply something in a roundabout way - idiom