expression / godan ~る verb:

• to marry into a family of rank; to marry money

noun:

• giving one's family life priority over one's work

expression:

• enter through the narrow gate (for wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction); enter ye in at the strait gate - from Matthew 7:13 - proverb

noun:

• white-eye family of birds (Zosteropidae)
• Japanese white-eye (Zosterops japonicus)

noun:

• rice grasshopper (of genus Oxya)
• grasshopper; locust (of family Catantopidae)

noun:

• black-winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus)
• stilt (any bird of family Recurvirostridae); avocet

noun:

• cod roe (roe of any fish from family Gadidae, esp. salted walleye pollack roe) ➜ 鱈・介党鱈

godan ~く verb:

• to be underwater from the neck down; to collect shells, seaweed, etc. by diving under the water - archaism
• to force something under the surface of the water

noun:

• one's family and followers; one's whole clan - four character idiom

expression:

• the soft may prove more durable than the hard; willow trees don't break under the weight of snow [literal] - proverb

noun / suffix noun:

• department; section; faculty; school; arm
• course (of study); branch of study; specialization
• (taxonomical) family

noun:

• adopting a son-in-law into one's family; marrying off one's daughter

expression:

• the more you do (it), the... (e.g. "the more you drink, the better it tastes")

expression:

• the light comes from the East; the light rises from the East; ex oriente lux - from the Roman saying, in reference to Constantinople - proverb

noun:

• New Year's holiday; period encompassing the close of the old year and the start of the New Year - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• dependents; family members that one has to support
• encumbrances; things that tie one down

noun:

• creeping woodsorrel (Oxalis corniculata) ［酢漿草・酸漿草・鳩酸草・酢母草］
• family crest shaped like creeping woodsorrel

noun:

• a member of one's "in group" (e.g. one's family, employees, etc.)

noun:

• phylogenetic tree; genealogical tree; family tree; evolutionary tree; dendrogram

noun:

• legal adviser; legal advisor; corporation lawyer; family lawyer

noun:

• vocation; lifework; calling
• sacred task (esp. the emperor's rule over the nation)
• prostitute of the second-highest class (Edo period) ➜ 天神

noun:

• the easy way; attaining rebirth in the Pure Land through the vows of Amitabha (as opposed to one's own efforts) - Buddhism term ➜ 難行道

noun:

• thousand-day walk through the mountains from Hieizan to the old Imperial Palace in Kyoto (ascetic practice of the Tendai sect) - Buddhism term

noun:

• wearing a kimono with the right side over the left (normally used only for the dead)
• going badly (one's business, one's fortune, the economy); being in a bad financial situation

noun:

• fleeting life; this transient world; floating world
• sad world; world of grief and worry - esp. 憂き世
• the world of the living; this life; this world; the present world
• (the world of the) red light districts