noun:

• seat of honor; seat of honour; head of the table; head

noun:

• political dynamics; dynamics of political forces; the balance of political power - four character idiom

adjective:

• risky; dangerous; hazardous; perilous; close (e.g. game); narrow (e.g. victory)
• suggestive; bordering on the obscene; risqué; delicate (e.g. question); questionable; shady
• extreme; harsh; cruel - archaism

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to run out of; to dry up; to be depleted
• to hit the bottom; to bottom out

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• last third of a month; 21st to the last day of a month

expression / noun:

• the most one can do; as much as one can; as hard as possible

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to enjoy oneself to one's hearts content; to enjoy oneself to the full

expression:

• to the previous extent; as much as previously; as much as one used to - sometines written 前程

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to disgrace one's ancestors; to tarnish the honour of one's ancestors

noun:

• five-line musical notation; Western musical notation based on the five-line staff

yodan ~く verb (archaic):

• to hang oneself; to strangle oneself - archaism
• to wring the neck; to strangle - archaism

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to narrow the focus; to focus attention (on); to concentrate (on); to zero in

noun:

• decoration hung on the New Year's pine on New Year's eve

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to get used to one's work; to become accustomed to one's position
• to be at home (on the stage)

godan ~く verb:

• to beat vigorously; to rain strikes upon someone; to tan someone's hide; to mercilessly pummel; to beat the daylights out of

noun / ~する noun:

• working in the field in fine weather and reading at home in rainy weather; living in quiet retirement dividing time between work and intellectual pursuits - four character idiom

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to look through
• to hold up to the light
• to make an opening; to leave space; to space (lines); to prune (trees)
• to fart without making a sound

noun / ~する noun:

• cleaning up or covering for another; bearing the consequences of someone else's error; paying a debt for someone; wiping another's buttocks [literal]

noun:

• solar pond (salty pond in which energy from solar energy accumulates in the lower layers, due to lack of convection)

expression:

• if you visit the toilet while travelling, you will get behind your fellow travelers; one chou for a piss, one ri for a shit [literal] - archaism - proverb ➜ 里【り】・町

noun:

• gold driver's license; driver's license awarded to drivers who haven't been in an accident in the past 5 years

noun / ~する noun:

• not giving up; keeping at it until one succeeds; falling seven times, getting up eight times [literal] - idiom

noun:

• the vicissitudes of life; ups and downs in life - idiom

expression / noun:

• completely empty (of a residence, etc.); vacant; deserted ➜ 蛻【もぬけ】
• body from which the soul has left; corpse
• shed skin (of a snake, insect, etc.) - orig. meaning

noun:

• PASMO (rechargeable prepaid IC card that can be used as a train and bus ticket in the greater Tokyo region and also as electric money in some stores) ➜ スイカ

noun:

• region south of Tokyo on Pacific Ocean side of Japan; eastern sea
• East Sea (controversial name for the Sea of Japan proposed by Korea)