expression / adjective:

• unable to read the situation; unable to pick up on the mood of a conversation ➜ 空気を読む

expression / adjective:

• unable to read the situation; unable to pick up on the mood of a conversation ➜ 空気を読む

expression / adjective:

• unable to read the situation; unable to pick up on the mood (e.g. of a conversation) ➜ 空気を読む

expression:

• unable to let pass unnoticed; unable to be indifferent; unable to just watch (without doing anything); can't bear to see; can't stand watching; can't just stand by ➜ 見かねる【みかねる】

noun:

• Himalayan verses (of the Nirvana Sutra) - Buddhism term ➜ 涅槃経・是生滅法・生滅滅已・寂滅為楽

noun:

• placing ropes or wires around trees to protect them from the snow; ropes stretched from the top of a tree to the lower branches to prevent their breaking under heavy snow ➜ 雪折れ

expression:

• even the hardest of hearts can be moved to tears; a tear in the ogre's eye [literal] - proverb

expression:

• without the least difference; exactly; perfectly; to the inch

noun:

• shogi game with the superior player playing without the kaku

noun:

• tempura soba without the noodles

expression:

• missing the vital element

expression:

• after pleasure comes pain; there is no pleasure without pain; there is no rose without a thorn; take the good with the bad - proverb

noun:

• regular adoption (official adoption with the consent of both parties and without dissolving the relationship with the biological parents)

adverb:

• before one's own eyes; from under one's very nose; without doing anything; without resistance; helplessly; negligently; knowingly

noun:

• layman (esp. as opposed to a Buddhist monk); laity; man of the world; the world
• local manners; modern customs

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• common; popular
• vulgar; low Antonym: 雅【が】

noun:

• wearing next to the skin (e.g. shoes without socks, trousers without underwear)

noun:

• the wise readily adapt themselves to changed circumstances; the wise are quick to acknowledge their mistakes and correct them - four character idiom
• (in colloquial usage, ironically or as an excuse) the wise make no scruple in suddenly changing their demeanor

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to read (a book); to open (a book) to read
• to unravel (e.g. a mystery); to discover (the truth)

noun:

• sutra-based ballads accompanied by the samisen

noun:

• Roche limit; Roche's limit (closest that a natural satellite can come to the center of a planet without disintegrating due to tidal forces)

noun:

• "Helping Hands" comedy performance; performance in which one person wears a haori on their shoulders, while another person behind them puts their arms through the sleeves of the haori and feeds the person in front ➜ 羽織

noun:

• young ascetic of the Himalayas; one of the Buddha's past lives - Buddhism term ➜ 釈迦

noun:

• speculatively buying a rice harvest, while the fields are still green
• recruiting of university students before the agreed date

expression:

• things cannot be larger than the things that contain them; there are no boars larger than the mountain [literal] - proverb

auxiliary verb:

• indicates recollection or realization (i.e. of hearsay or the past); can form a poetic past tense
• indicates continuation from the past to the present
• end; conclusion - also written with the ateji 鳧

noun:

• uppercase letter; capital letter ［おおもじ］ ➜ 小文字
• large character; large writing
• the (kanji) character "dai" meaning "big" ［だいもんじ］
• huge character "dai" formed by fires lit on the side of a mountain in Kyoto on 16 Aug each year ［だいもんじ］