godan ~ぶ verb / intransitive verb:

• to line up; to stand in a line
• to rival; to match; to equal

noun:

• dan rank (in martial arts, go, etc.); advanced rank; grade of black belt

~の noun / adjectival noun / noun:

• bloody; gory; covered in copious amounts of blood; blood-drenched
• desperate; frantic

adjectival noun / ~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• full of confidence; brimming with (self-)confidence; having great faith in oneself - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• freely; in complete control of; with complete freedom; at will; as one pleases - four character idiom

noun:

• laser-assisted in-situ keratomileusis (type of laser eye surgery); LASIK

noun:

• (in soccer) system of using different starting lineups for different matches - Sports term

noun:

• (China's) new normal; state of slower economic growth in China since 2012

noun:

• tide; current
• sea water
• opportunity; chance ［しお］
• thin soup of fish or shellfish boiled in seawater ［うしお］ - abbreviation ➜ 潮汁【うしおじる】

noun:

• ball (for sport, games, etc.)
• kemari; type of football played by courtiers in ancient Japan ［鞠・毬］ ➜ 蹴鞠

noun:

• popularization; simplification; explaining in simple language
• adaptation of history for popular reading (esp. Chinese); historical novel writing

noun:

• bardo; state (or period) of intermediate existence between one's death and rebirth (in Japan, 49 days) - Buddhism term

noun:

• carton (e.g. of cigarettes)
• tray (in which money is placed when paying); dish
• pasteboard ［カルトン］ - From French "carton"

noun:

• type of food (sliced dried herring or other fish wrapped in konbu seaweed and boiled)

noun:

• var. of knot often used to tie mizu-hiki
• woman's hairstyle, braided in this fashion

noun:

• bardo; state (or period) of intermediate existence between one's death and rebirth (in Japan, 49 days) - Buddhism term ➜ 中陰・四有

noun:

• sabdavidya (ancient Indian linguistic and grammatical studies) ➜ 五明
• chanting of Buddhist hymns (usu. in Sanskrit or Chinese) - Buddhism term

interjection:

• buh-boo (from sound of 'wrong' buzzer in quiz shows, used when somebody says an incorrect answer) - colloquialism Antonym: ピンポン

noun:

• circumstantial retribution; circumstances (e.g. geographical, societal) one is born into because of karma in previous lives - Buddhism term ➜ 正報

noun:

• bardo; state (or period) of intermediate existence between one's death and rebirth (in Japan, 49 days) - Buddhism term ➜ 中陰

expression:

• having no choice but to carry on; having no choice but to go on; unable to change one's course of action; a man riding a tiger cannot disembark halfway through

noun:

• the passage of people and horses; coming and going of people and horses - four character idiom

noun:

• sappanwood (Caesalpinia sappan)
• sappanwood dye (red in colour) (color)
• layered colour (light brown on the front, dark red beneath)

expression:

• first "horse day" in any lunar month, but esp. the second lunar month; traditional day for worship at "fox deity" shrines

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to quit (a shady business); to wash one's hands of; to cut one's ties with; to turn over a new leaf; to go straight - idiom
• to wash one's feet