expression / godan ~う verb:

• to wash one's face and hands
• to go to the toilet

expression:

• month after month; as the months go by; with each passing month

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to turn everything into a joke; to continue joking to the last

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to come to an end; to lower the curtain ➜ 幕を閉じる【まくをとじる】

expression / ~する verb (spec.):

• to defy accepted norms; to go off the rails; to be eccentric

noun:

• company; fellow; colleague; associate; comrade; mate; group; circle of friends; partner
• member of the same category

noun:

• wing
• Chinese "Wings" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) ［よく］ - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿・朱雀【すざく】

suffix / counter:

• counter for birds or bird wings ［よく］ - archaism

noun:

• district; county ［ぐん］
• district (of 2-20 50-home neighbourhoods or townships, in the ritsuryo period) ➜ 国郡里制

adjectival noun / adverb / ~の noun:

• as one would expect
• still; all the same
• even... (e.g. "even a genius...") - as さすがの〜も

noun / ~の noun / suffix noun:

• all; everything; the whole; lock, stock, and barrel

adverbial noun:

• absolutely not (with negative); without exception; entirely not

noun / ~する noun:

• execution; enforcing; carrying out ［しこう・せこう・しぎょう］
• giving alms; giving food to the poor or monks ［せぎょう］

noun / suffix noun:

• quotient - Mathematics term ➜ 積
• dealing; dealer; store
• second degree (of the Japanese & Chinese pentatonic scale) ➜ 五音
• Shang (dynasty of China) ➜ 殷

noun:

• room that cannot be entered (e.g. because it's locked from the inside)
• secret room

noun:

• Star Festival (held in July or August); Tanabata; Festival of the Weaver ➜ 五節句

noun:

• one person; one customer - honorific language
• unmarried woman (with no children) over the age of 30 - colloquialism ➜ 負け犬

noun:

• morning star; Venus ➜ 金星【きんせい】
• preeminent person (within their own field); star (of the stage, silver screen, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• opening, either for the day or a "grand opening" (e.g. theme park, botanical garden etc.) - used for ~園 Antonym: 閉園

noun / ~する noun:

• being in dire distress; being hard put to it - four character idiom
• the four and eight kinds of suffering - Buddhism term ➜ 四苦・八苦

noun:

• sacred treasure; the three sacred treasures (sword, jewel, mirror) ➜ 三種の神器
• implement used in religious ceremonies

noun / ~する noun:

• kiss - colloquialism

noun / ~と adverb:

• squeak (as in the sound made by mice)
• sound of liquid being sucked up

noun:

• begging Zen priest of the Fuke sect (wearing a sedge hood and playing a shakuhachi flute)

noun / ~する noun:

• acknowledgement; acknowledgment; understanding (e.g. "please be understanding of the mess during our renovation"); noting ➜ 了承

noun:

• Naraka; hell; hades - Buddhism term - From Sanskrit "naraka"
• very bottom; the end; worst possible circumstances
• theatre basement; theater basement ［奈落］

noun / ~する noun:

• having a prince for a president; being the recipient of (an imperial favor, favour); reverential acceptance

noun / ~の noun:

• once in a lifetime; the first and last occurrence (event, experience) of one's lifetime - four character idiom