noun:

• control tower; conning tower
• leader; commander; person calling the shots
• playmaker; game maker - Sports term

noun:

• vine; bine; tendril; runner
• bow; temple arm; sidepiece; lug arm; earpiece; part of a pair of glasses that goes over the ear
• connections; contacts; influence; financial supporter

noun:

• university; college ➜ 総合大学
• former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators) - abbreviation ➜ 大学寮・国学【こくがく】
• the Great Learning (one of the Four Books) ➜ 四書

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to send (a thing); to dispatch; to despatch; to transmit
• to take or escort (a person somewhere); to see off (a person)
• to bid farewell (to the departed); to bury
• to spend (time); to live one's life
• to pass (down the line)
• to affix okurigana ➜ 送り仮名

noun:

• wing
• Chinese "Wings" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) ［よく］ - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿・朱雀【すざく】

suffix / counter:

• counter for birds or bird wings ［よく］ - archaism

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to place on (something)
• to give (someone) a ride; to give a lift; to pick up; to help on board - esp. 乗せる
• to load (luggage); to carry; to take on board - esp. 載せる
• to send out (on the airwaves, etc.)
• to deceive; to take for a ride
• to (sing) along with (musical accompaniment)
• to let (someone) take part
• to excite (someone)
• to publish (an article); to run (an ad) ［載せる］

noun:

• legume (esp. edible legumes or their seeds, such as beans, peas, pulses, etc.); beans; peas
• soya bean (Glycine max); soybean; soy ➜ 大豆
• female genitalia (esp. the clitoris) - colloquialism
• kidney - colloquialism - usually written using kana alone - Food term

prefix noun:

• miniature; tiny
• child

noun:

• floor
• stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player)
• dining platform built across a river

noun:

• echo; reverberation
• sound (esp. the distinctive sound of an object or activity, e.g. rain, gun, gallop, drum); noise
• quality of a sound (e.g. a fine phrase, clear voice, resonant bell); feeling of a sound; emotion or feeling inspired by something heard or read

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:

• remains; traces; vestiges; relics
• (the sorrow of) parting
• end

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to shake; to jolt; to rock; to swing; to sway
• to shake (e.g. the political world); to disturb; to shock; to upset
• to put off a batter (by varying one's type of pitch) - Baseball term

noun:

• Japanese league; ri; old Japanese unit of distance, approx. 3.927km or 2.44 miles
• neighbourhood (under the ritsuryo system; orig. of 50 homes) ➜ 郷里制・国郡里制
• unit of area (approx. 654m by 654m) ➜ 条里制

noun:

• transfer; switching over; change
• money transfer (usu. between accounts held by the same person)
• postal transfer - abbreviation ➜ 郵便振替

noun / ~する noun:

• running alone; running solo
• having a large lead (over the others); being far ahead (of everyone else)
• having one's own way; ignoring others' opinions and acting as one wishes; arbitrary action

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to shut; to close; to lock; to fasten
• to block (e.g. the way); to shut off; to shut in
• to plunge (in grief) ［とざす］

noun / ~する noun:

• tye-dye; tye-dyeing
• aperture (e.g. camera, iris of the eye); aperture stop; stop
• contraction; squeezing; choke

noun:

• reverse side
• opposite (of the expected) ➜ 裏目に出る
• purl stitch (knitting)

noun:

• to; traditional unit of volume, approx. 18 litres
• square bearing block (at the top of a pillar) ➜ 枡形
• Chinese "Dipper" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿・玄武【げんぶ】

adjectival noun / noun:

• undutifulness to one's parents; lack of filial piety
• (the crime of) cursing one's parents ［ふきょう］ - archaism ➜ 八虐
• disowning one's child ［ふきょう］ - archaism

suffix:

• Lord; Sir ［きょう］ - honorific language

noun:

• state minister (under the ritsuryo system) ➜ 律令制

pronoun:

• you (in reference to someone of lower status) ［けい］ - archaism - male language - honorific language

noun:

• Goryeo (dynasty of Korea; 918-1392 CE) ［こうらい］ - abbreviation

noun / prefix noun:

• Korea (esp. the Goguryeo kingdom or the Goryeo dynasty)

noun:

• (stone) guardian lion-dogs at Shinto shrine ［狛］ ➜ 狛犬

noun / suffix noun:

• bodhisattva; one who has reached enlightenment but vows to save all beings before becoming a buddha - Buddhism term
• High Monk (title bestowed by the imperial court)
• title bestowed to Shinto kami in manifestation theory ➜ 本地垂迹説

noun:

• musical note; note symbol
• phonetic symbol (incl. the kanji and kana-doubling symbols, vowel-lengthening symbol, etc.)
• part of a kanji for which the role is primarily to represent the pronunciation (as opposed to the meaning) ➜ 意符

noun / ~する noun:

• sideslip; skid; sliding sideways
• shifting to another post (at the same level); sideways move (at a company)
• sliding sideways down a slope (skiing)