adverb:

• sound of heavy breathing - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• blowing on something (e.g. to cool it down)

noun:

• "limit of heat" solar term (approx. Aug. 23, when the weather is said to start cooling down) ➜ 二十四節気

noun:

• private school that allows students to advance from one stage of education to the next, often kindergarten to university, without taking entrance exams en route; "escalator school" - colloquialism ➜ エスカレーター学校

noun:

• private school that allows students to advance from one stage of education to the next, often kindergarten to university, without taking entrance exams en route; escalator school [literal] - colloquialism ➜ エスカレーター校

noun:

• preventing a ship from passing or from leaving port

expression:

• from the beginning; from scratch

expression / adverb / ~の noun:

• (starting) from nothing; from scratch

expression / ichidan verb:

• to bend over in the shape of the hiragana character ku; to bend forward from the waist to form a chevron shape

expression:

• The time has come (for, to, when...); The time being ripe (for) - four character idiom

noun:

• barbarians to the east and to the west (from the perspective of old China) - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to feel relieved; to feel happy after having been relieved of a responsibility; to be relieved from a duty

expression:

• even; for starters
• so; therefore - emphatic form of から
• judging from; based on
• since; from

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to pull; to tug; to lead (e.g. a horse)
• to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest) ➜ 惹く【ひく】・注意を引く
• to draw back (e.g. one's hand); to draw in (one's chin, stomach, etc.); to pull in
• to draw (a card, mahjong tile, etc.)
• to draw (a line, plan, etc.) ➜ 図面を引く
• to catch (a cold) ➜ 風邪を引く
• to play (a stringed or keyboard instrument) ➜ 弾く【ひく】
• to look up (e.g. a dictionary); to consult ➜ 辞書を引く
• to haul; to pull (vehicles) - esp. 牽く
• to subtract; to deduct
• to recede; to ebb; to fade
• to be descend from; to inherit (a characteristic)
• to quote; to cite; to raise (as evidence)
• to lay on (electricity, gas, etc.); to install (e.g. a telephone); to supply (e.g. water)
• to hold (e.g. a note)
• to apply (e.g. lipstick); to oil (e.g. a pan); to wax (e.g. a floor)

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to move back; to draw back; to recede ➜ 退く【ひく】
• to lessen; to subside; to ebb ➜ 退く【ひく】
• to resign; to retire; to quit ➜ 退く【ひく】

noun:

• style of haikai or haiku from the Tenmei era (based on a return to the style of Basho) ➜ 天明・蕉風
• style of comical tanka from the Tenmei era (popularized by Oota Nampo) ➜ 狂歌

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to run from place to place

ichidan verb:

• to understand from experience

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to suffer from tuberculosis

auxiliary verb / godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to receive from another - archaism - honorific language ➜ くださる

godan ~る verb:

• to squeal (from infatuation) - manga slang ➜ ブヒブヒ・萌え豚

expression:

• which reminds me ...; come to think of it ...; now that you mention it ...; on that subject ...; so, if you say ...

expression:

• which reminds me ...; come to think of it ...; now that you mention it ...; on that subject ...; so, if you say ... ➜ そう言えば【そういえば】

noun:

• point of heaven; corner of the sky

noun / ~する noun:

• ascension (into heaven); the Ascension
• death

noun:

• upper world; heaven; superkingdom
• upper bound - Mathematics term

noun:

• the Imperial Army; heaven-send army