noun:

• charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) fish stay on the bottom of water and flying wild geese fall from the sky in shame [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• very bad condition; awful state; terrible situation; in the shit - usu. as どつぼにはまる ➜ どつぼにはまる
• night-soil reservoir dug in a field ➜ 野壺【のつぼ】
• night-soil pot - orig. meaning
• earthenware vessel; earthen urn - obscure term

expression:

• taking pride in one's humility is a form of bragging; he that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted; too much humility is pride - proverb

expression / noun:

• charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) fish stay on the bottom of water and flying wild geese fall from the sky in shame ➜ 閉月羞花・沈魚落雁

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to eat
• to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on

noun:

• locked up feeling; cooped up feeling; feeling of entrapment; feeling of hopelessness; being in a bind

expression:

• there is no God!; it's a cruel world; there is no god or Buddha [literal] - idiom

noun:

• blue green damselfish (Chromis viridis, a damselfish from the Indo-Pacific); blue-green chromis

noun:

• temperature sensitivity; sensitivity of the demand for electricity to a change of the atmospheric temperature

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to kick free; to kick loose; to kick away - archaism
• to kick open (e.g. a sliding door) - archaism

noun:

• chuff-chuff (sound of a steam engine); choo-choo; chug-chug; puff-puff - colloquialism - onomatopoeia ➜ 汽車ポッポ【きしゃポッポ】・ぽっぽ

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to lay the foundation for (e.g. a theory); to lay the basis for

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be really good (at something); to be as good as a professional - slang

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to melt (to a liquid)
• to be enchanted with; to be charmed; to be bewitched

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to set free; to let go; to release
• to miss (e.g. a chance); to lose; to let get away; to fail to catch

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to hold (an event); to give (a dinner, party, etc.)
• to feel (sensation, emotion, call of nature, etc.); to show signs of

noun:

• whole family; all (members of) the family
• all over the house
• retainer of a daimyo; feudal domain; clan ［かちゅう］

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• being used to people (e.g. of a young child); being sociable
• being used to humans (esp. animals); being tame

noun:

• dish broiled in a mix of soy sauce, mirin, etc.; broiling with soy sauce, mirin, etc. - Food term

noun:

• place exposed to winds which blow up from below (usu. a beach); beach exposed to sea winds
• fountain

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to proceed though deadlocked; to be carried over (e.g. to next meeting); to go into a shootout (e.g. sport)

expression:

• no one knows what the future holds; the future is a closed book; one sun (unit of measurement) ahead is darkness [literal] - proverb

expression:

• wretched is the lot of a government official; it is better to work for oneself than to work for someone else - proverb

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to crack down on (e.g. crime, corruption); to deal a crushing blow to; to bring down the hammer on ➜ 鉄槌【てっつい】

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to break up and start anew; to break out of one's shell; to make a fresh start; to go outside oneself - idiom