noun:

• business; task; errand; engagement
• use; purpose

suffix noun:

• for the use of ...; used for ...; made for ...

noun:

• call of nature; excretion ➜ 用を足す

noun / ~の noun:

• district; region; area; locality
• the country; countryside; the provinces; rural area Antonym: 中央【ちゅうおう】

noun:

• company; fellow; colleague; associate; comrade; mate; group; circle of friends; partner
• member of the same category

noun:

• expert; learned person
• doctor; PhD; Dr. - colloquialism ➜ 博士【はくし】
• instructor at the imperial court (ritsuryo period)
• pitch and length marks (to accompany a Buddhist liturgical chant, etc.) ➜ 墨譜

noun:

• hill; height; knoll; rising ground ［丘・岡・壟］
• bonus points awarded to the winner at the end of a game ［丘・陸符］ - usually written using kana alone - Mahjong term

noun:

• thing; matter
• incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis
• circumstances; situation; state of affairs
• work; business; affair
• after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to

suffix noun:

• nominalizing suffix ➜ 事【ごと】
• pretending to ...; playing make-believe ... ➜ 事【ごと】

noun / suffix noun:

• alias; aka; nickname; alternative name; also known as - esp. as ＡことＢ or ＡとはＢのことだ (Ａ alias, Ｂ formal)

noun:

• rainy season (in Japan from early June to mid-July)
• rain during the rainy season

noun:

• eaves
• narrow aisle surrounding the core of a temple building ➜ 庇

noun / ~する noun:

• improvement (e.g. in skill, ability); advance; progress
• communication of opinions of the general populace to those of high rank Antonym: 下達 ➜ 上通

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to arrive at (e.g. a decision); to reach (a stage); to attain
• to lead to (a place); to get to
• in the extreme case of - as ～に至っては
• to come; to arrive; to result in - archaism

adverb / pronoun:

• here and there; all around; everywhere; throughout; all over

~する noun:

• to get things in the wrong order (back to front); to become muddled up ［あちこち・あちらこちら・あっちこっち・アチコチ］

noun:

• Buddha; merciful person; Buddhist image
• the dead; dead person; spirit of the dead

noun:

• sentence
• composition; text; writings
• the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts); academia; literature ➜ 武
• statement - IT term

expression / adverb:

• before very long; soon; someday; one of these days; sooner or later
• of the previously mentioned; of that number; among them; among others

adverb:

• finally; at last
• in the end - with a verb in negative form

noun:

• literature
• the arts; art and literature; liberal arts

noun / ~の noun:

• South Pole
• the Antarctic; Antarctica ➜ 南極圏・南極大陸

noun:

• cover (of a book, magazine, etc.); binding

noun / ~する noun:

• appearing on the cover of a magazine

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to carry on one's back
• to be burdened with; to take responsibility for
• to have (something) in the background; to be in front (of something)

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to be conceited; to think highly of oneself ［しょう］ - in the form しょってる ➜ しょってる

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to begin to say; to start talking; to broach (a matter); to bring up; to come out with
• to be the first to say; to suggest (doing); to propose

noun:

• chimney; smokestack; funnel (of a ship); stovepipe
• carrying a passenger without turning on the taximeter - slang

noun / ~の noun:

• North Pole
• the Arctic - abbreviation ➜ 北極圏

noun / ~の noun:

• revolution
• 58th year of the sexagenary cycle (in Onmyōdō) ➜ 三革・辛酉

noun:

• tail (animal, kite, comet, etc.); tail end
• slope at the foot of a mountain

noun:

• foundation; base; basis

adverb:

• from the beginning; from the outset; by nature - often in negative contexts ➜ 元々