expression / ichidan verb:

• to pull oneself together; to get one's act together; to brace oneself

noun:

• dwarf Japanese quince (Chaenomeles japonica); (Japanese) flowering quince; Maule's quince; japonica ➜ 木瓜【ぼけ】

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to spare oneself; to spare oneself the trouble ➜ 骨を惜しむ
• to nullify someone's efforts - as 骨を盗むまい, 骨を盗まず, etc. - archaism

noun:

• noble's consort; consort of a prince; consort of a duke; duchess; princess

expression:

• don't worry about it; it's nothing; don't give it a thought ➜ いいから

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be forward; to stick one's nose into; to meddle; to be intrusive
• to jut out; to protude; to overhang

expression:

• hand in hand

noun:

• picture-in-picture - IT term

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to catch up (with); to draw level; to pull even; to reach ➜ 追いつく
• to be compensated; to make up for one's losses ➜ 追いつく

noun:

• declaring that one is one tile away from winning on one's first discard and before any tiles have been called or kongs declared - Mahjong term ➜ 立直【リーチ】

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to arrive at (after a struggle); to finally reach; to find one's way to; to finally hit on (e.g. an idea)

noun:

• land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took half of the year's crop and the farmers kept the other half - archaism - four character idiom

expression / ~くる verb (spec.):

• to get mad; to be highly offended; to get pissed off; to get angry; to lose one's cool - colloquialism ➜ 頭にくる

noun / ~する noun:

• execution; carrying out; performance; enforcement; exercise; service ［しっこう・しゅぎょう］

noun:

• lead monk performing various tasks in a temple - Buddhism term

noun:

• last moment; eleventh hour - idiom
• platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period - orig. meaning

noun:

• scale (of fish, snake, etc.)
• serif (on kana or kanji (e.g. in Mincho font))

noun / suffix noun:

• training; education; upbringing

noun:

• stocking up; laying in
• preparation (e.g. ingredients)
• girl studying to become a geisha

adverb:

• in general; generally; mostly; roughly; largely; mainly; on the whole; by and large

noun:

• gist; point; main idea

noun:

• double-dealer; fence-sitter; timeserver; moving back and forth between two sides in a conflict; duplicity; turncoat - four character idiom

noun:

• type of household amulet or talisman, issued by a Shinto shrine, hung in the house for protection

noun / ~する noun:

• secluding oneself in the mountains; undertaking ascetic practices at a mountain temple
• retreat; off-site meeting

noun:

• dried citrus peel (esp. of a satsuma mandarin) used as seasoning and in traditional Chinese medicine; chenpi ➜ 蜜柑

noun:

• apostille; stamp or certificate of public document authentication in accordance with Hague Convention XII

noun:

• leatherman; conspicuously gay male who belongs to the leather subculture and engages in bodybuilding - From English "hard gay"

noun:

• postcards associated with Respect-for-the-Aged Day, and sold every year starting in September - From English "heart mail"