expression:

• Defeat is inevitable for an overconfident army; Being arrogant and overconfident inevitably leads to defeat (failure); Pride comes before a fall - four character idiom

noun:

• entrance exam for a university giving preference to persons who excel in one special field (skill); one-talent oriented entrance examination - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be highly-reputed and sell extremely well (of a printed literary work); to raise the price of paper in Luoyang [literal] - idiom - archaism

adverb / ~と adverb:

• stiff and slackless; tense without any looseness - onomatopoeia ➜ きりっと
• cling tightly; pulled or stretched as far as possible
• creaking of a door or oar

noun:

• artifact spirit; in folk belief, long-lived objects (household objects, living beings, nature, etc.) become inhabited by a spirit

noun:

• large bird
• peng (in Chinese mythology, giant bird said to transform from a fish) - esp. 鵬 ➜ 鵬【ほう】
• fenghuang (Chinese phoenix) - esp. 鳳 and 凰 as male and female respectively ➜ 鳳凰

noun:

• seal; stamp - archaism
• depressing the string of a zither with one's left hand
• (in archery) left hand ➜ 引き手【ひきで】
• obstinacy; stubbornness

noun:

• short flute piece (in kyogen; usu. a lively solo)
• flute and drum music played after each act but the last (in kabuki) - also written as 砂切

noun:

• unidentified craft said to have washed ashore in Ibaraki Prefecture during the Edo period (sometimes alleged to have been a UFO)

adverb:

• gushing out (e.g. sweat or blood); flowing profusely - onomatopoeia
• thump-thump; bang-bang; pit-a-pat; pitapat; pitter-patter - onomatopoeia
• sound of hoofbeats - onomatopoeia

noun:

• finger Braille; system of communicating with the deaf-blind in which the receiver's fingers are tapped like a Braille typewriter ➜ 点字【てんじ】

noun / prefix noun:

• having a fetish for ...; specializing in ...; majoring in ... - abbreviation - slang ➜ 専門

noun:

• first; foremost; number one priority - archaism
• doing as one pleases; acting selfishly - archaism
• fired brick - archaism

noun:

• New Year ornament (usu. of straw, fern leaves, seaweed and bitter orange fruit, and hung at the entrance of a home)

expression:

• I quit!; I'm out!; declaring one quits, mainly used in children's games - children's language - Ōsaka dialect

noun / counter:

• nth person to quit a game - children's language - Ōsaka dialect

noun:

• lifting one's buttocks (e.g. through exercise); getting a perkier bum; getting rid of sagging buttocks - From English "hip up"

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to bow (in great numbers) to a greater authority; to be drawn (en masse) to something attractive; even the plants yield [literal] - idiom

noun:

• opening credits; title sequence - freq. read オープニング - abbreviation
• theme song (played during the opening credits of a TV show, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ 主題歌

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to buy; to purchase - in western Japan, 買う conjugates euphonically as こうた, こうて, etc.
• to value; to have a high opinion
• to stir; to provoke; to draw upon oneself

godan ~す verb:

• to exhaust; to run out
• to devote; to serve (a person); to befriend

auxiliary verb:

• to do to exhaustion

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to accomplish; to achieve; to carry out
• to arrive at (a certain outcome); to come to; to end with

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to do up (hair); to dress; to arrange
• to tie; to bind; to fasten; to make (a fence)

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to boast; to brag
• to recite (a song or poem to oneself)
• to bark; to roar; to howl

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to pulverize; to break into pieces ➜ 粉々になる【こなごなになる】
• to beat to a pulp; to defeat completely; to crush; to destroy - idiom

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to stretch larger
• to enlarge (photos)
• to delay (e.g. the end of a meeting)

noun:

• losing the means of livelihood
• a samurai's annual rice stipend being suspended - archaism
• (in fishing) the fish swimming upward after biting the fishhook