noun:

• unnecessary trouble brought upon oneself; stirring up a hornet's nest - abbreviation ➜ 藪をつついて蛇を出す

noun:

• walking practice; getting one's legs into shape
• warm-up; preparation

noun / ~する noun:

• becoming unworldly; being free from worldliness; not keeping up with social norms ➜ 世離れる

noun:

• pickled Japanese horseradish; wasabi cut up and mixed with sake lees

noun:

• being absorbed in self-indulgent pleasures; giving oneself up to debauchery and dissipation - four character idiom

noun:

• being absorbed in self-indulgent pleasures; giving oneself up to debauchery and dissipation - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• (providing) covering fire - four character idiom
• supporting (backing up) someone (in a debate or argument)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to get stiff legs (after walking or standing up for a long time) - idiom

expression:

• full up - colloquialism
• to have had enough of something (both good and bad nuance)

expression:

• nature itself is a good mother; even without parents, children grow up [literal] - proverb

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• rising up; towering; billowing (e.g. clouds of smoke) - onomatopoeia
• plump; chubby; fat - onomatopoeia
• shaggy; hairy - onomatopoeia

noun:

• solitary confinement in a dark cell without bedding (for up to one week)

expression:

• nature itself is a good mother; even without parents, children grow up [literal] - proverb

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to rise; to go up; to come up; to ascend; to be raised Antonym: 下がる
• to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to go in
• to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade
• to get out (of water); to come ashore
• to increase - also written as 騰る in ref. to price
• to improve; to make progress
• to be promoted; to advance
• to be made (of profit, etc.)
• to occur (esp. of a favourable result)
• to be adequate (to cover expenses, etc.) - often as 〜で上がる
• to be finished; to be done; to be over
• (of rain) to stop; to lift
• to stop (working properly); to cut out; to give out; to die
• to win (in a card game, etc.)
• to be arrested ［挙がる］
• to turn up (of evidence, etc.) ［挙がる］
• to be deep fried ［揚がる］
• to be spoken loudly
• to get stage fright
• to be offered (to the gods, etc.)
• to go; to visit - humble language
• to eat; to drink - honorific language
• to be listed (as a candidate) - esp. 挙がる
• to serve (in one's master's home)
• to go north - in Kyoto

suffix / godan ~る verb:

• to be complete; to finish - after the -masu stem of a verb ➜ 出来上がる

noun:

• falling on one's backside (behind, bottom); pratfall ➜ 尻餅をつく
• mochi used to celebrate a child's first birthday; mochi tied to a baby's back if he starts walking before his first birthday in order to cause him to fall on his backside

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to see; to look; to watch; to view; to observe
• to look over; to look on; to assess; to examine; to judge ➜ 診る
• to look after; to keep an eye on; to take care of - usually written using kana alone ➜ 看る
• to view (e.g. flowers, movie) - usu. 観る

auxiliary verb / ichidan verb:

• to try; to try out; to test - usu. after a conative verb as 〜てみる - usually written using kana alone
• to see that...; to find that... - usu. after an aconative verb as 〜てみると, 〜てみれば, 〜てみたら, etc. - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• palace examination (national Chinese civil servant examination based largely on classic literature); someone who has passed this examination ➜ 科挙
• examination for promotion in the Ministry of Ceremonies (based largely on political duties and Chinese classics); someone who has passed this examination ➜ 式部省

noun / ~する noun:

• boiling; seething
• becoming heated (e.g. debate); excitement; agitation; fermentation
• soaring (prices); shooting up

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• parched; dried-up; bone-dry - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun:

• empty; hollow - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• rattling; clattering - onomatopoeia
• laughing loudly; roaring with laughter - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• (eating) heartily - onomatopoeia
• energetically; vigorously; (working) hard; enthusiastically - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• bulging (muscles); welling up (of strength, courage, etc.) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• geisha; Japanese singing and dancing girl
• dressed-up beautiful woman

noun:

• dizziness (from standing up too fast); orthostatic syncope; lightheadedness; vertigo

~と adverb:

• with a snap; (break) cleanly - onomatopoeia ➜ びしっと
• (reject) sternly; flatly
• smartly (e.g. of dressing up well).

noun:

• mushroom that springs up in the morning and withers by night; "something short-lived" [figurative] - archaism

adverb / ~と adverb:

• bubblingly; foamingly; sinking or rising while giving off bubbles - onomatopoeia ➜ ぶくぶく
• cute and chubby; pudgy; puffed up - onomatopoeia