expression / godan ~る verb:

• to coin a new word; to neologize

noun:

• speech balloon (in a comic strip); speech bubble
• blowoff; effusion; blowing; venting
• blowing (of a seasonal or climatic wind)

noun:

• calling many harlots and entertainers and have a big party
• starting an important maneuver at the end of a game of go

noun / ~する noun:

• passing on by word of mouth; oral tradition

noun:

• handed-down order; issued instruction; word of command - four character idiom ➜ 一下

noun:

• Japanese word constructed of elements from foreign languages ➜ 和製英語

noun:

• handed-down order; issued instruction; word of command ➜ 一下・命令一下【めいれいいっか】

noun:

• sense of (one's) mission; awareness of one's duty (calling) - four character idiom

expression:

• not revealing (thoughts, feelings); not breathing a word

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• tarsal (relating to the tarsus - a group of small bones between the tibia and fibula and the metatarsus)

noun:

• banishment (to a nearby province); the least severe of the three banishment punishments under the ritsuryo system

noun:

• expansion (in space) of a sales area; increase in the number of beds (in a hospital, etc.)

noun:

• dojo (hall used for martial arts training)
• manda (place of Buddhist practice or meditation, esp. the place under the bodhi tree where Buddha attained enlightenment) - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 菩提道場

expression / noun:

• group of independents; usu. informal grouping of independent politicians in the National Diet or in prefectural assemblies

conjunction:

• for; for the sake of; to one's advantage; in favor of; in favour of; on behalf of
• because of; as a result of

noun:

• dried sardines (held together by a bamboo skewer or string piercing the eye sockets)

noun:

• paper-covered frame put over a hearth or brazier to make the fire last longer

noun / ~する noun:

• taking a spectacular photograph (often of the female form); taking a photo at just the right moment - colloquialism

noun:

• powerful photograph; intense photograph

noun:

• debt; liabilities; obligation to a person or party (usu. legal or contractual) Antonym: 債権

conjunction:

• even if
• (it doesn't matter) whether (A or B or ...); whatever
• should - imperative form of である

noun:

• squatter; person who occupies a building or land without title or permission

noun:

• losing the means of livelihood
• a samurai's annual rice stipend being suspended - archaism
• (in fishing) the fish swimming upward after biting the fishhook

noun:

• upstage right pillar (on a noh stage), where the main actor stands at the start and end of the play ➜ 仕手

noun:

• Azuma coat; type of coat worn over a kimono; popular in the middle of the Meiji era

godan ~う verb:

• to pray that one avoids disaster or illness; to pray - archaism
• to pray for the death or misfortune of another; to curse
• to treat illness with prayer