ichidan verb / transitive:

• to start; to begin; to commence
• to challenge; to pick (a fight); to make (war)
• to set (traps); to plant (explosives); to lay (mines)
• to make a meld call - Mahjong term ➜ 鳴く【なく】

noun:

• possessing full mastery of an art (e.g. Judo); initiation into the secrets (e.g. of an art); full mastership - four character idiom

noun:

• thing; matter
• incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis
• circumstances; situation; state of affairs
• work; business; affair
• after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to

suffix noun:

• nominalizing suffix ➜ 事【ごと】
• pretending to ...; playing make-believe ... ➜ 事【ごと】

noun / suffix noun:

• alias; aka; nickname; alternative name; also known as - esp. as ＡことＢ or ＡとはＢのことだ (Ａ alias, Ｂ formal)

noun:

• totally useless (fruitless) effort; wasting time on an impossible task (like trying to scoop up a reflected moon from the bottom of the sea) - four character idiom

noun:

• Canopic jar; Canopic vase (used to store the internal organs of an Egyptian mummy)

expression:

• Defeat is inevitable for an overconfident army; Being arrogant and overconfident inevitably leads to defeat (failure); Pride comes before a fall - four character idiom

noun:

• notched bamboo rod rubbed with an implement similar to a bamboo whisk (used as a percussion instrument) ➜ 簓
• wooden vertical batten

noun:

• on-off timer (i.e. to automatically turn an electrical device on and off at specified times)

~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb / transitive:

• to crouch; to stoop; to bend down; to prostrate oneself; to lie down
• to yield; to submit; to surrender
• to hide; to conceal oneself

noun:

• being frustrated because something is not quite as hoped (just as one cannot scratch an itch from outside a shoe); having an itch that one cannot scratch - four character idiom

noun:

• no game; game that is stopped before it can be considered an official game (e.g. due to rainout) - Baseball term

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to throw; to toss; to cast
• to hit; to strike; to smash; to hammer in; to drive in
• to fire into (e.g. a crowd); to launch (e.g. missiles); to lob (e.g. grenades)
• to wear (sword, etc.); to carry

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to shake; to jolt; to rock; to swing; to sway
• to shake (e.g. the political world); to disturb; to shock; to upset
• to put off a batter (by varying one's type of pitch) - Baseball term

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be disordered; to be disarranged; to be disarrayed; to be disheveled; to be dishevelled
• to be discomposed; to be upset; to get confused; to be disturbed
• to lapse into chaos (due to war, etc.)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to extend; to stretch out; to stand in a row
• to attend; to participate in
• to enrol; to enroll; to join
• to have a connection; to be related; to be linked

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to send (a thing); to dispatch; to despatch; to transmit
• to take or escort (a person somewhere); to see off (a person)
• to bid farewell (to the departed); to bury
• to spend (time); to live one's life
• to pass (down the line)
• to affix okurigana ➜ 送り仮名

noun:

• moratorium; period of grace; extension (of time, e.g. to make payments); cessation (for a period, e.g. nuclear testing)
• postponement (of social responsibility); immaturity; not having developed emotional maturity; mental state of a young person who does not want to become an adult ➜ モラトリアム人間【モラトリアムにんげん】

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to pass through; to pass by; to go beyond
• to pass (i.e. of time); to elapse
• to have expired; to have ended; to be over
• to exceed; to surpass; to be above
• to be no more than ... - as 〜に過ぎない, etc.

ichidan verb / intransitive verb / suffix:

• to be excessive; to be too much; to be too ... - often used after adjective stems or the -masu stems of verbs - usually written using kana alone

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to drain; to pour; to spill; to shed (blood, tears) ➜ 涙を流す
• to wash away
• to distribute (e.g. electricity over wires, music over a PA system, etc.); to circulate; to broadcast; to beam
• to cruise (e.g. taxi)
• to float; to set adrift
• to call off (a meeting, etc.)
• to exile; to banish

suffix:

• (strongly emphatic) too preoccupied or busy to even think of ...; ... is out of the question; this is not an occasion for

noun:

• an adult-age eldest son who has yet to come into his inheritance; (a young adult still) living at home; a dependent

noun:

• helmet with white hair coming out of the top to make one look like an old person ➜ 老冠
• kanji "old" radical at top

godan ~ぐ verb / transitive:

• to earn (income); to make (money)
• to score (points, victory); to gain (time); to play (for time)

godan ~ぐ verb / intransitive verb:

• to work hard (at one's job); to labor; to labour; to toil

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be clear (of a sight, sound, colour, etc.); to be bright; to be vivid; to be crisp
• to be clear-headed; to be alert; to be on the ball; to be wide awake
• to look upbeat; to be perky; to be cheerful - often as 冴えない
• to master (a skill); to excel at; to cleanly execute
• to be satisfying - often as 冴えない ➜ 冴えない
• to become frigid; to become intensely cold - original meaning; now somewhat old-fashioned

noun / ~する noun:

• being bombed
• being A-bombed; being nuked; being exposed to radiation (from an atomic blast) ➜ 被曝