expression / adjective:

• having a loose tongue; being talkative; speaking without thinking; being unable to keep a secret Antonym: 口が堅い ➜ 口の軽い

expression:

• once a fool, always a fool; stupidity won't be cured without death [literal] - proverb

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• tender sentiments; being overcome with emotions; having a tender feeling (for a person) - archaism - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• wind blowing snow down a mountain
• removing snow from the roof of a house

noun:

• yell made by archers when firing a volley of arrows; yell which opens a battle

noun:

• very old type of kiln made by digging a hole in the side of a hill

noun:

• small country with a small population (The Chinese philosopher Lao-tze's ideal of a state) - four character idiom

expression:

• Very truly yours (a complimentary close used in a letter written in an old epistolary style) - four character idiom

expression:

• Very truly yours (a complimentary close used in a letter written in an old epistolary style) - four character idiom

expression:

• the world is a scene of constant changes; the blue sea turns into a mulberry field [literal] - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• establishing (a new family register); compiling (an electoral register, a list of school-age children, etc.)

noun:

• changing one's attitude or conduct and making a new start; turning over a new leaf

ichidan verb:

• to take a photo with a mobile phone - colloquialism
• to email an image or photograph - colloquialism ➜ 写メ【しゃメ】

adverb:

• bang bang (sound of a hammer or gunfire) - onomatopoeia
• doing something at a mad pace (spend money, work)

noun:

• art project which is done in place of a graduation thesis at a college of arts ➜ 卒制

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be relieved of a worry; to get a load off one's chest

noun:

• place where there is a god or spirit; place containing the sacred object of a shrine

noun:

• draft of a magazine's content (usu. a table showing the allocation of each page)

noun:

• punch-style can opener (punches a round or V-shaped hole in a can of liquid)

noun:

• power of finality (of a legal decision, e.g. when a case is dismissed with prejudice) - Law term

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to float upright in the cup (of a tea stem, as a sign of good luck)

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

numeric:

• one-thousandth; 0.03 mm (one-thousandth of a sun); 0.01 percent (one-thousandth of a wari); 3.75 milligrams (one-thousandth of a monme)

noun:

• old monetary unit (0.0001 yen)

noun:

• rod; pole
• neck (of a shamisen, etc.); shamisen - esp. 棹
• beam (i.e. the crossbar of a balance)
• single line (esp. as a flying formation for geese)
• penis - slang

counter:

• counter for flags (on poles); counter for long, thin Japanese sweets (e.g. youkan)

noun:

• lighthouse
• old-fashioned interior light fixture comprising a wooden pole with an oil-filled dish and a wick atop it