noun:

• feeling apprehensive; feeling (looking) lone and helpless; being down-and-out (ruined); helplessness of those in reduced circumstances - four character idiom

noun:

• manager; steward; factotum; person next in rank to the chief retainers and in charge of general management and accounting in a samurai family (Edo period) ➜ 御用人
• useful person

expression / noun:

• a swan among ducklings; a diamond among stones; a great figure among the common run of men - idiom

noun:

• serviceability; maintainability; ease of maintaining

noun:

• manager; steward; person next in rank to the chief retainer and in charge of general management and accounting in a samurai family (Edo period) - honorific language ➜ 用人

adverb:

• reluctantly; unwillingly; unavoidably; out of necessity

noun / ~の noun:

• midtown; mid-town; middle of a town

expression:

• one becomes sleepy when one's stomach is full; full stomach, sleepy head; when the skin of the belly is extended, the skin of the eyes droops [literal] - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• eating between meals; wasteful eating habits; waste of resources
• living idly; loafing one's way through life ➜ 無駄飯【むだめし】・徒食【としょく】

expression:

• heartrending; desperate; hopeless; full of grief ➜ 身も世も無い【みもよもない】

noun / ~の noun:

• chemical resistance; resistant to chemicals; chemical proof

expression / godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to take pride in; to pride oneself; to be proud of

noun:

• minced meat; hashed meat; pieces of meat (often sold in a pack)

adjective:

• uncool; unsophisticated; unfashionable; out of fashion - slang

expression:

• tread on a worm and it will turn; even a tiny bug will defend itself; even the weakest and smallest beings have their own wills, so do not make light of them - proverb

noun:

• yarn dyeing; thread dyeing; prior dyeing of thread before cloth is woven

noun:

• sō-on; Song reading; on reading of a kanji based on Song dynasty and later Chinese (esp. in words related to Zen Buddhism) ➜ 唐音【とうおん】・宋【そう】

noun:

• Stephanoberyciformes; Cetomimiformes; order of fishes containing the whalefishes

noun:

• feminine tears; bitter tears; tears of blood

noun:

• mead; honey wine; ambrosia; nectar of the gods

noun:

• shelter; safe shelter; evacuation shelter; place of refuge

expression / ichidan verb:

• to speak to; to give a (something) talk to; to speak words of (something)

noun:

• autumn; fall; withering of the grass

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to hesitate; to have scruples; to be afraid of what others may think
• to lord it over; to have great influence

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to snuggle up to; to nuzzle; to burrow into; to press a part of one's body against something