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:

• type of newspaper from the Meiji era (characterized by its use of political commentary written in literary language) ➜ 小新聞
• major newspaper

noun:

• inconsistently, horribly drawn animated film or cartoon; animated cartoon episode of lower picture quality than other episodes in the same series - slang

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)

noun:

• Buddhist theory of the twelve-fold chain of causation, interdependent origination and co-dependent arising (San: pratītya-samutpāda); twelve causal links - Buddhism term

noun:

• normal style of writing; modern Japanese text
• text written in literary style with mixed kanji and kana (until the Taisho era)

noun:

• pung (or kong) of east tiles when east is both the round wind and one's seat wind (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 連風牌

noun:

• pung (or kong) of south tiles when south is both the round wind and one's seat wind (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 連風牌

noun:

• pung (or kong) of west tiles when west is both the round wind and one's seat wind (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 連風牌

noun:

• pung (or kong) of north tiles when north is both the round wind and one's seat wind (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 連風牌

noun:

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

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

expression:

• one cannot escape from one's worldly desires; the hounds of earthly desires would return each time they are driven away [literal] - proverb

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to pull out; to draw out; to extract; to unplug; to weed
• to omit; to leave out; to go without; to skip

auxiliary verb / godan ~く verb:

• to do to the end; to carry through

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to let out (e.g. air from a tyre); to drain (e.g. water from a bath); to empty
• to pick out; to choose; to select; to extract
• to pilfer; to steal
• to remove; to get rid of; to take out
• to pass; to overtake; to outstrip; to get ahead of
• to pierce; to break through; to go through - also written 貫く
• to cut out (a shape); to create (a pattern) by dying the surrounding area
• to seize; to capture; to reduce
• to scoop (a story)
• to take out (an opponent's stones; in go)

godan ~く verb:

• to masturbate (of a male); to ejaculate (while masturbating) - slang - vulgar
• to take (a photo); to record (video) - slang

godan ~す verb / transitive:

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

noun:

• rivalry over winning the right to host an event; competition to lure (attract, invite) (institutions, manufacturing facilities, foreign tourists, etc.) to a locality - four character idiom

noun:

• fish sauce made of salted and fermented sardines, mackerel, or squid; a specialty of the Noto Peninsula of Ishikawa Prefecture

noun:

• hand-clapping performed to celebrate the conclusion or completion of something (3-3-3-1 rhythm, done once)
• single clap after a cheer

adjectival noun / noun:

• one color; one colour; one article; monochrome
• same tendency; everyone being caught up in the same thing

noun:

• losing initiative; being forestalled ➜ 先手【せんて】
• second move (in go or shogi); moving second; person with the second move
• rear guard ➜ 後詰め

noun:

• opening; start; launch
• opening credits; title sequence - abbreviation ➜ ＯＰ【オーピー】
• theme song (played during the opening credits of a TV show, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ ＯＰ【オーピー】

noun:

• gift for close relatives or friends (given on the occasion of a family celebration)
• family celebration; private celebration

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to model on; to make in the shape of; to represent; to pattern after; to imitate
• to symbolise