adverb:

• as was expected; just as one thought; sure enough
• really; actually; ever - used in interrogative and hypothetical sentences

expression / noun:

• only natural; no wonder; as expected; of course; as it should be

expression:

• to get a tiny share of the profits; to get a small share of what someone is enjoying

noun:

• reader (person)
• person who reads the cards (in karuta games) ➜ 取り手
• composer (of a poem) - also written as 詠み手 ➜ 詠み手【よみて】

noun:

• cutting a person down (without a second thought); sacrificing; throwing to the wolves; treating as sword fodder
• omission; rounding down (e.g. fractions); truncation ➜ 切り上げ

noun:

• tamponade; blockage or closure of a wound or body cavity by (or as if by) a tampon (esp. to stop bleeding) - Medicine term ➜ 心タンポナーデ【しんタンポナーデ】

adjectival noun / noun / ~の noun:

• (relating to) gender
• sex; sexual

noun:

• relationships with the opposite sex

noun:

• women paying boys for sex - from 逆 and 援交 - abbreviation

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to have (esp. sex, food, etc.) - from やって and しまう - slang ➜ 遣る【やる】・遣る【やる】

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to have sex with - slang

noun / ~する noun:

• unveiling a Buddhist image
• gambling
• revealing something that is supposed to remain hidden

noun:

• a good time to view the moon (i.e. when it is full) - archaism

expression:

• nature itself is a good mother; even without parents, children grow up [literal] - proverb

expression:

• nature itself is a good mother; even without parents, children grow up [literal] - proverb

noun:

• having good knowledge of a certain matter; person who has good knowledge of a certain matter; informed source ➜ 通

ichidan verb / intransitive verb / transitive:

• to come off; to be removed
• (of pain, a fever, etc.) to disappear
• to be caught; to be harvested ➜ 獲れる・捕れる
• to be interpreted (as); to be taken as
• (of balance, etc.) to be attained
• to be obtainable - potential form of 取る ➜ 取る

noun:

• bow-shaped whale-bone or copper hairpins used to increase the volume on the side of a woman's hair (Edo period) - archaism - obscure term

godan ~ぐ verb / transitive:

• to act as an agent for; to intermediate
• to announce (someone's arrival); to answer (the door, the phone); to receive (a guest at reception); to usher in (a guest)
• to convey (a message)

noun:

• hair style where the hair is tied up in a bundle on the back of the head (resembling the shape of a tea whisk) ➜ 茶筅

noun:

• swastika (esp. a counterclockwise swastika as a Buddhist symbol); fylfot; gammadion - used as a symbol for Buddhist temples on maps ➜ ハーケンクロイツ
• swastika-shaped family crest

interjection:

• wow; yeah; ugh; yuck; awesome; really; let's go ［卍］ - usu. at the beginning or/and end of a sentence or word but also by itself; used for emphasis, etc. - slang

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be a prostitute; to work as a prostitute; to sell sexual services

adverbial noun:

• just (now, at the moment, etc.); just as; in the act of; as soon as; at the moment that

expression / adjective:

• (something) has never occurred; to have never done (something); such a thing has not happened - after the past tense form of a verb
• never happens; there is never a time when

suffix:

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