expression / godan ~る verb:

• to hold back others from achieving success; to stand in the way of; to sabotage

noun:

• the five sciences of ancient India (grammar and composition, arts and mathematics, medicine, logic, and philosophy)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to get (e.g. the gist of something); to understand
• to turn out as one thought ➜ 我が意を得たり

noun:

• heuriger; type of Austrian wine tavern where wine-growers serve the most recent year's wine

godan ~ぶ verb / transitive:

• to make (a promise); to conclude (a contract)
• to act as a go-between; to act as mediator
• to curry favour with - usu. as ご機嫌を取り結ぶ

noun:

• the whole body; limbs ［五体］
• the five styles in Japanese calligraphy ➜ 行書・書道・真書・草書・大篆・八分【はっぷん】・隷書・楷書・篆書

noun:

• shift the responsibility (for something) on to (someone); pass the buck - four character idiom

noun:

• perestroika; reform movement within the Soviet Communist Party in the 1980s - From Russian "perestroyka"

noun:

• revere the Emperor; expel the western barbarians (19th century slogan) - four character idiom

noun:

• four posts that used to support the roof over the ring - Sumo term

noun:

• cargo ships that sailed the Japan Sea during the Edo period - archaism

godan ~る verb:

• to set beyond the Western horizon (i.e. the sun) - poetical term ➜ 入る【いる】

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to eat something for the first time in the season

noun:

• public official stationed in the capital (under the ritsuryo system)

expression / adverb:

• in the same breath; hardly had the words been said ➜ 舌の根も乾かぬうち【したのねもかわかぬうち】

expression / adverb:

• in the same breath; hardly had the words been said ➜ 舌の根の乾かぬうち【したのねのかわかぬうち】

noun:

• The Winter War (between Finland and the Soviet Union 1939-1940)

noun:

• The Continuation War (between Finland and the Soviet Union 1941-1944)

pre-noun adjectival:

• The Great (e.g. in film and book titles); The Grand

noun:

• holding a memorial service for oneself - Buddhism term
• an older person conducting a memorial service for a deceased, younger person

expression:

• Man's life vanishes like a dew; A person's life is as fleeting as a morning dew - four character idiom

noun:

• S; s
• south - abbreviation
• sulfur - abbreviation ➜ 硫黄

prefix:

• nth year in the Shōwa era (1926.12.25-1989.1.7) - abbreviation ➜ 昭和

noun:

• small - abbreviation
• second - abbreviation
• subject (grammar) - abbreviation ➜ 主語
• sadist; sadistic - abbreviation Antonym: Ｍ
• sister; female partner in a homosexual relationship - abbreviation

noun / ~の noun:

• the earth; the globe

noun:

• the deceased; the departed

noun / ~の noun:

• the body; the flesh