noun:

• ominous place outside the human world; mysterious place where no human being lives; uninhabited area

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to have a break in the conversation; to experience an awkward silence; an angel passes [literal] - from the French 'un ange pass' - idiom

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to chase after two hares; to try and do two things at the same time - idiom ➜ 二兎を追う者は一兎をも得ず

expression / ichidan verb:

• to help a long-term employee to establish a branch of the same shop

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to color; to colour; to paint
• to touch up (by tracing the same image, letter, etc.)

noun:

• north
• the North; northern territories
• North Korea - abbreviation
• north wind - archaism

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• middle of the night; dead of night

noun / ~する noun:

• sweeping the sea for mines; dragging for mines

expression:

• if you do this; if this is the case

noun:

• lunar New Year (esp. the Chinese New Year)

noun / ~の noun:

• deep sea; depths of the sea; ocean depths

noun:

• (head) priest; head priest of the Ise Shrine

noun:

• Western paper; paper manufactured in the Western manner ➜ 和紙

noun:

• root of the nose - Anatomy term
• nose; sense of smell - Buddhism term ➜ 六根

noun:

• end of a period; end of the world

noun / ~する noun:

• evening cool; cool of the evening

expression / noun:

• calm before a storm; lull before the storm

noun:

• middle of the night; dead of night; midnight

noun:

• end of the year or season; year end

noun / ~する noun:

• books returned unsold; books returned to the library

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to extend the term; to extend a deadline

expression / ichidan verb:

• to summer; to go away for the summer - obscure term

noun:

• related (relevant) matters; matters relevant to the subject

noun:

• the first in history; only once in history - four character idiom

noun:

• the instability of a political situation; political instability - four character idiom