expression / noun:

• getting along extremely well; maintaining a fond friendship ➜ 莫逆【ばくぎゃく】・莫逆の友【ばくぎゃくのとも】

noun:

• great harm (esp. to a person); murder - obscure term

noun:

• concert band (as a school activity); wind ensemble

noun:

• ideal man (as a romantic partner); eligible bachelor - slang - From English "super darling"

noun:

• compensatory holiday (for working on a day off) ➜ 代休【だいきゅう】

noun / ~する noun:

• making regular visits to a social welfare facility

noun:

• thinly-sliced food grilled on a cedar board

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to wear (formal clothing) in a casual fashion

noun:

• bill (e.g. at a restaurant); check

expression:

• a samurai never goes back on his word - proverb

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to make a foursome - Mahjong term ➜ メンツ・揃う

expression:

• children are a poor man's riches - proverb

expression:

• children are a poor man's riches - proverb

expression:

• a starved dog does not fear the rod [literal] - proverb

expression / noun / ~する noun:

• lifting (a child) high up in the air - children's language

noun:

• processed meat injected with a beef tallow mixture

noun:

• apartment with one bedroom and a kitchen ➜ Ｋ【ケー】

noun / ~する noun:

• adding more water (to a bath tub) ➜ 差し湯【さしゆ】

noun:

• cutting through cloth; sound of cutting through cloth
• shrieking sound; woman's scream; loud scream
• cry of the lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus) ➜ ホトトギス

expression:

• Buddhist revelation through intuitive discernment; Spiritual awakening cannot be experienced with words and letters; Spiritual enlightenment can be attained only by means of communion of mind with mind (Zen Buddhism) - four character idiom

noun:

• teapot-like object made typically of lacquerware and used to pour hot and cold liquids
• basin of water with two handles on either side used for washing one's face or hands ➜ 盥

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be included; to be composed of; to be comprised of

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to be fragrant; to smell (good) - usu. 匂う
• to stink; to smell (bad) - usu. 臭う
• to glow; to be bright
• to smack of; to show hints of

noun:

• possessing full mastery of an art (e.g. Judo); initiation into the secrets (e.g. of an art); full mastership - four character idiom

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be disconnected; to get out of place; to be off; to be out (e.g. of gear)