noun:

• strength of one's back

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to bare one's back

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to rinse one's back

noun:

• characteristic quality; special character; one's real ability; one's specialty
• one's function; one's duty
• fief; inherited estate

noun:

• palm (of one's hand)
• skill
• scope of one's power
• one's intentions; one's plan
• one's hand (mahjong, card games, etc.)

noun:

• the end of things (esp. used for one's last writings) - archaism
• one's dying hour (esp. used for the death of Confucius)

noun:

• village; hamlet
• countryside; country
• home (of one's parents, etc.); hometown ［里］
• one's origins; one's upbringing; one's past ［里］ ➜ 御里

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• on-the-fly; on the fly

noun:

• Rip van Winkle feeling; feeling that everything has changed once one comes back to one's hometown

expression / ichidan verb:

• to keep one's wits about one; to be on one's guard; to be wary of trickery - idiom ➜ 眉唾物【まゆつばもの】

expression:

• handling things without making waves; taking in one's stride

expression / ~する noun:

• to display one's real ability; to show one's real ability; to show one's stuff; to show oneself at one's best; to really shine; to come into one's own; to find one's feet (legs); to hit (strike) one's stride

noun / ~する noun:

• appearing with one's (full) name; showing one's name (on a nameplate, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• spending time with one's family on one's day off work; family duty - colloquialism

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

• to engrave in one's heart; to inscribe on one's liver [literal] - idiom

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 / ~する noun:

• looking on with folded arms (with one's hands in one's sleeves); remaining a passive onlooker - four character idiom

temporal noun:

• on the way back
• when about to go back

noun:

• one's face turning red; with a flush on one's face - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to leave one's post; to walk out on one's job

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to engrave in one's heart; to inscribe on one's bones [literal] - idiom

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to persevere; to persist; to keep at it; to hang on; to hold out; to do one's best
• to insist that; to stick to (one's opinion)
• to remain in a place; to stick to one's post; to refuse to budge

noun / ~する noun:

• wind blowing down, coming over a mountain

noun:

• immediately after one's draw - Mahjong term
• winning off a discarded tile from the player to one's right or across the table on the turn after letting one's winning tile go by from the player to one's left - Mahjong term

expression:

• like water off a duck's back; water on a frog's face [literal]

noun:

• one's background; one's history; one's circumstances
• one's merit; asset; strong point