adjective:

• low (rank, degree, value, content, quality, etc.) Antonym: 高い・高い
• low (position); close to the ground
• short (height)
• deep (voice); in a low key; low (volume)

adjective:

• dark; gloomy; murky
• depressed; dispirited; down in the dumps; dark (mood)
• dark (in colour); dull
• ill-boding; dark (e.g. past); suspicious
• unlikely (to succeed); hopeless; unpromising
• unfamiliar (with); ignorant (of) - as 〜に暗い Antonym: 明るい

adverb / ~の noun:

• more or less; though not quite satisfactorily; after a fashion; pretty much; roughly; so far as it goes

adverb:

• tentatively; for the time being
• just in case
• once

noun / ~する noun:

• fixing (in place); securing; anchoring; fastening down
• fixing (e.g. salary, capital); keeping the same
• fixation (histology) - Biology term

noun:

• user name (on an online forum like 2ch where the majority of users post anonymously) - slang - abbreviation ➜ 固定ハンドル
• user who uses a online handle (instead of posting anonymously) - slang - abbreviation ➜ 固定ハンドル

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be clear (of a sight, sound, colour, etc.); to be bright; to be vivid; to be crisp
• to be clear-headed; to be alert; to be on the ball; to be wide awake
• to look upbeat; to be perky; to be cheerful - often as 冴えない
• to master (a skill); to excel at; to cleanly execute
• to be satisfying - often as 冴えない ➜ 冴えない
• to become frigid; to become intensely cold - original meaning; now somewhat old-fashioned

noun:

• relatives; one's family
• friends; members of the same organization
• followers; henchmen
• one's whole body

noun:

• same person
• said person; the person in question
• coterie; clique; fraternity; kindred spirits; comrade; colleague
• dōjin; doujin; Japanese fans or hobbyists who produce their owns magazines, manga, software, etc. ［どうじん］

noun:

• fall; decline; lowering; hanging down; drooping; slanting (downward) Antonym: 上がり
• string apron; ornamental cords hanging from the front of a sumo wrestler's belt - Sumo term
• food offering to the gods; leftovers; hand-me-downs - usu. as お下がり ➜ お下がり
• leaving (one's master's place for home)

suffix noun / noun:

• a little after ...

godan ~す verb / ~す verb (precursor to modern する) / intransitive verb:

• to ripen; to mature
• to be ready for action; to be the right time (to act)
• to be in common use; to come to sound natural
• to become skilled

~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to ripen; to mature
• to be ready for action; to be the right time (to act)
• to be in common use; to come to sound natural
• to become skilled

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• rustling - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun / ~の noun / adverb / ~する noun:

• dry; rough feeling; rough to the touch - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~する noun:

• rough (of a person); course; crude; unrefined; uncouth - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• catching fish with a net

adverb:

• completely; absolutely; totally ➜ 一向に
• (not) at all; (not) a bit; (not) in the least - in a negative sentence
• earnestly; intently; determinedly

noun:

• Jōdo Shinshū - abbreviation ➜ 一向宗

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb / transitive:

• to give one's name (as); to introduce oneself (as)
• to claim to be; to call oneself; to wear the title of
• to reveal oneself (as); to admit to being

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to adopt as one's name; to take (a name)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to call out the goods one is selling - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• eating with one's fingers
• snitching food; snatched food; secret eating; food snatched and eaten without the meal starting
• embezzlement; misappropriation; exploiting something
• flirting

noun:

• three countries
• Japan, China & India; Japan, Korea & China; all the world
• Three Kingdoms (in China, 220-280) ➜ 魏【ぎ】・蜀【しょく】・呉【ご】
• Three Kingdoms (in Korea, 57 BCE - 668 CE) ➜ 新羅【しらぎ】・百済【くだら】・高句麗【こうくり】

noun:

• empty air; sky
• shunyata; emptiness; the lack of an immutable intrinsic nature within any phenomenon - Buddhism term
• air force - abbreviation ➜ 空軍

noun / adjectival noun:

• fruitlessness; meaninglessness
• void (one of the five elements) ➜ 五大

~の noun:

• empty (e.g. set) - Mathematics term

adjective:

• fast; quick; hasty; brisk - esp. 速い, 疾い, 捷い
• early (in the day, etc.); premature - esp. 早い
• (too) soon; not yet; (too) early - esp. 早い
• easy; simple; quick - esp. 早い ➜ 手っ取り早い

noun:

• skin
• body (in the context of intimate bodily contact) ➜ 肌を許す

noun / suffix noun:

• surface; grain (e.g. of wood); texture
• disposition; temperament; character; type ➜ 肌が合う

~する verb (spec.):

• to face (each other); to be facing
• to be directed toward (the future, etc.); to be in response to; to be related to
• to receive (a client, etc.)
• to compare with; to contrast with; to be in opposition with; to be opposed to
• to confront; to oppose; to compete with

noun:

• ball
• ball (pitch that falls outside of the strike zone) - Baseball term
• bowl
• board (cardboard, pasteboard, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ ボール紙

noun:

• Sunday - abbreviation ➜ 日曜

suffix:

• day (of the month) - also んち or ち

suffix / counter:

• counter for days - also んち or ち

noun / suffix noun / prefix noun:

• Japan - abbreviation ➜ 日本

noun:

• beach; seashore
• captured pieces (in the game of go); captured stones - abbreviation - usually written using kana alone ➜ 揚げ浜
• Yokohama - abbreviation ➜ 横浜
• riverbank; riverside - archaism - Ōsaka dialect

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to go under; to pass under; to go through; to pass through
• to dive (into or under the water) ➜ 潜る【もぐる】
• to evade; to get around; to slip past
• to survive; to surmount

noun:

• jar; pot; vase
• dice cup
• depression (i.e. the basin of a waterfall)
• target (when aiming an arrow) - archaism
• (figurative) bull's-eye - usually written using kana alone ➜ 思うつぼ
• key point (of a conversation, etc.) - usually written using kana alone
• acupuncture point; moxibustion point - usually written using kana alone
• nodes on a fingerboard (of a shamisen, etc.) - often ツボ - usually written using kana alone

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to step back; to move back; to retreat
• to withdraw (from the presence of a superior); to leave; to exit
• to resign; to retire; to quit
• to concede