noun:

• Zen monk's waistcoat (short, informal kasaya) - archaism ➜ 袈裟・絡子【らくす】
• ring (usu. made of ivory) attached to this waistcoat
• netsuke; item attached to a netsuke ➜ 根付け

noun:

• type of stew, usu. fish or vegetables in a mild broth; fish grilled unseasoned and then simmered slowly in soy and mirin broth

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to drive black hogs in the dark; to be unable to distinguish one thing from another; to come out from the darkness with a cow [literal] - idiom

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to convey a message (e.g. to one's superior); to communicate; to pass on; to pass; to pass along; to put across - humble language ➜ 言い伝える

noun:

• kōji; malted rice; malt; malt-like material from growing mold on rice, barley, beans, etc. (used as a starter to make sake, miso, soy sauce, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• somersault
• returning from a destination right after arriving there; non-stop round trip; round trip without an overnight stop
• abrupt change of direction

expression:

• intending to persuade someone and instead being persuaded oneself; going for wool and coming home shorn; the biter bit; the mummy hunter himself becomes a mummy [literal] - idiom

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

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to grow stiff
• to be absorbed in; to be devoted to; to be a fanatic; to elaborate

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to pile up; to heap up
• to stir up; to enliven; to bring to a climax

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be a topic of conversation; to be made much of
• to be taken in

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

• to bear (a child); to be born
• to produce; to yield; to be produced; to be yielded

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb / transitive:

• to bear (a child); to be born ➜ 産する
• to produce; to yield; to be produced; to be yielded

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to play dumb; to feign ignorance; to play innocent; to have a blank facial expression
• to play the fool
• to be in one's dotage

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to induce (somebody to do something); to tempt
• to act toward (somebody in a certain way); to handle (men); to treat
• to send; to forward to

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to talk; to speak; to converse; to chat
• to tell; to explain; to narrate; to mention; to describe; to discuss
• to speak (a language)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to cause to embrace; to combine; to conjoin
• to sell strong-selling products and poorly selling products together as a package

godan -いく／-ゆく verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to maintain itself; to last; to make itself pay; to make a living; to keep going

expression / ~する verb (spec.):

• to qualify (as); to have the qualifications (for ...); to be entitled to; to have a claim (for)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to eat; to drink; to smoke ➜ 喫する
• to suffer (e.g. defeat); to receive (e.g. a blow)

interjection / noun:

• crying "banzai" (or raising one's hands in the banzai gesture)
• something worthy of celebration
• giving up ［ばんざい］
• long time - archaism
• eternal life (and prosperity) - archaism

interjection:

• banzai (a celebratory cheer); hurrah (hooray, hurray)

noun:

• someone whose kanji-writing ability has suffered due to overreliance on the kana-to-kanji conversion systems used to input Japanese text on a computer - IT term

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 / godan ~る verb:

• to perform anal sex; to bugger; to sodomize; to sodomise ➜ 釜を掘る
• to crash a car into the back of another (usu. used in the passive voice); to rear-end

noun:

• China ［ちゅうごく］ ➜ 中華人民共和国
• Chūgoku region of western Honshu (incl. Okayama, Hiroshima, Shimane, Tottori and Yamaguchi prefectures) ［ちゅうごく］ - abbreviation ➜ 中国地方
• central part of a country; main region ［ちゅうごく］
• province of the second lowest rank (ritsuryo system)