expression:

• person who swaggers about under borrowed authority; small man acting arrogantly through borrowed authority; a fox that borrows the authority of a tiger [literal] - idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• three stars (shape)
• three stars (for quality, e.g. Michelin stars)

noun:

• Orion's belt; Chinese "Three Stars" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) ➜ 参【しん】

expression:

• you can't always get what you want; man plans and God laughs; things don't always turn out the way you hope - proverb

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• for something unexpected to happen (to someone or something one is close to) - idiom

expression:

• (deciding to do something) abruptly; at the turn of a dime - usu. as 足元から鳥が立つように - idiom

noun:

• social organisation for people originating from the same town, village, or island who live in an urban center far from home (predominantly used by people from Okinawa)

noun:

• day off (between working days)
• 50th, 53rd, 55th or 59th day of the sexagenary cycle ➜ 八専
• non-fever day (when running an intermittent fever, e.g. malaria)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to learn by experience; to learn one's lesson; to learn the hard way
• to have enough (of); to be disgusted with

noun:

• cut paper; paper cut in half; paper scrap; the art of cutting paper (in contrast to origami)

noun:

• assembly of monks and laity (at a rite, sermon, etc.) - Buddhism term
• (monks and laity of) the Jishu sect - Buddhism term ➜ 時宗

noun:

• tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimeninae spp., esp. the common tube-nosed fruit bat, Nyctimene albiventer)

noun / ~する noun:

• punch (with the fist)
• punching (a hole); hole punch

noun:

• punch (drink)
• punch (in a song, speech, etc.); impact

noun:

• foot of a mountain; plain at the foot of a mountain
• range; spread; extent; encompassing circle

noun:

• box in which ashes of the deceased are kept; box in which a funerary urn is kept

noun:

• index fossil (fossil which suggests a date of the formation of a rock stratum); key fossil; leading fossil

noun:

• forced reduction of a daimyo's land by the Edo Shogunate; curtailment of a daimyo's domain - archaism

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to rest in peace; to attain eternal rest - usu. neg. ➜ 浮かばれない【うかばれない】
• to gain recognition; to get on in the world

interjection:

• thank you (for the meal); that was a delicious meal
• thank you (for displaying lovey-dovey behaviour) - humorous term

noun:

• security (e.g. national security) - abbreviation ➜ 安全保障
• US-Japan Security Treaty - abbreviation ➜ 日米安全保障条約
• campaign against the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty (1959-60, 1970) - abbreviation ➜ 安保闘争

expression:

• in either case (used specifically in the instance of two possible outcomes or situations); either way; one way or another

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to choose at one's own discretion
• to choose when to do something; to estimate (the time for something)

adverb:

• in itself; as it is; in its own way; as suits the occasion ➜ 形【なり】
• within its capacity; within limitations

noun:

• great and splendid land (of Yamato)
• spiritual center of the land; one's spiritual home
• excellent location; splendid place

noun:

• internal maneuvering; secret maneuvering (within an organization); reconciling the various views within an organization before airing something in public - four character idiom

expression / godan ~つ verb / intransitive verb:

• to lead; to take the initiative
• to take precedence (e.g. sadness taking precedence over anger)
• to be most essential

noun:

• partition board; plank used as a partition
• board used in a ship to prevent the cargo from moving around