noun:

• end; close; finish; termination ➜ お仕舞い【おしまい】
• noh dance in plain clothes ［仕舞］

noun:

• oneself

adverb:

• for one's self; personally

noun / ~の noun:

• black person

noun:

• woman in the nightlife business; demimondaine; geisha and prostitutes - archaism ➜ 玄人

noun / ~の noun:

• active duty; active service
• student taking (university) entrance exams while still enrolled in school; student who passed their university entrance exams on the first try - often as 現役で ➜ 浪人【ろうにん】

noun:

• life; lifetime; career

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• for life; all one's life; throughout one's life; as long as one lives

noun / ~する noun:

• execution; carrying out; performance; enforcement; exercise; service ［しっこう・しゅぎょう］

noun:

• lead monk performing various tasks in a temple - Buddhism term

adverb:

• gradually (progress into a state)
• in sequence; in order; in turn

adverb / suffix:

• without; not including; dispensed with
• (beating) in succession

noun / ~する noun:

• telephone call; speaking over the telephone

counter:

• counter for telephone calls of a set duration

noun / ~する noun:

• residence; stay; (job) posting; being stationed (overseas, etc.)
• residential police box; residential police box officer - abbreviation ➜ 駐在所【ちゅうざいしょ】

noun / suffix noun:

• just before; on the verge of; on the brink of
• just in front of; just ahead of

noun:

• step; stride

counter:

• counter for steps

noun:

• last moment; eleventh hour - idiom
• platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period - orig. meaning

adjectival noun / noun:

• profit; advantage; benefit; gain - also written as 徳
• rebirth in paradise, entering nirvana - Buddhism term

noun / ~の noun:

• taking care of one's responsibilities by oneself; one's own efforts; one's own expense
• going into business for oneself (selling one's own products); entrepreneur of such a business

noun:

• common camellia; Camellia japonica
• tea produced in the mountains ［さんちゃ］

noun / ~の noun:

• south; southern; southward

noun:

• countries in the south (esp. Southeast Asia and the pre-WWII South Pacific Mandate)

noun:

• pushing something out; extrusion
• presence; appearance
• run walked in - Baseball term
• pushing one's opponent out by pressing one's hands up against them - Sumo term

noun / ~する noun:

• addition of points; scoring
• addition of marks and symbols to a classical Chinese text to aid reading in Japanese

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to grow stiff
• to be absorbed in; to be devoted to; to be a fanatic; to elaborate

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• defect; deficiency; imperfection; inadequacy; lack Antonym: 完備

expression:

• Yours in haste - valediction of a letter

ichidan verb:

• to make do with; to manage with; to make shift
• to get (something) done in time; to have ready (by) ➜ 間に合う

noun:

• aizuchi; back-channeling; interjections indicating that one is paying attention
• two smiths hammering at an object in turn ➜ 向こう鎚

noun:

• scattering
• leaflets - esp. チラシ - usually written using kana alone
• sushi rice in a box or bowl with a variety of ingredients sprinkled on top - abbreviation ➜ 散らし寿司
• writing in an irregular hand - abbreviation ➜ 散らし書き

noun:

• pace; tempo; slow and fast
• in case of emergency