noun:

• phonetic change; change in sound; shift in sound

expression:

• In for a penny, in for a pound - idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to go down in history; to remain in history

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be in a tizzy; to be in a frenzy; to have one's eyes light up; to have a different look in one's eyes

expression:

• spoiling someone's work; useless effort; laboring in vain; labouring in vain; if a peasant sows seeds, the crows will dig them up [literal]

noun:

• competent in all fields; jack of all trades; very active in many fields; versatile; all-round; 8 faces and 6 arms [literal] - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• open-air tea ceremony
• aristocrat taking a break during a trip in a palanquin
• something standing in the open

noun:

• humour; humor; temper; mood; spirits - honorific language - polite language ➜ 機嫌
• safety; health; well-being; one's situation - honorific language - polite language

adjectival noun:

• in a good mood; in high spirits; happy; cheery; merry; chipper

noun:

• stage prop in kabuki, consisting of a revolving panel with a life-size doll on each side
• rapid change in a situation, person's attitude, etc.

expression:

• "rat in a trap" [figurative]; "trapped rat" [figurative]; rat in a bag [literal]

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to drift; to float
• to waft (e.g. a scent); to hang in the air
• to be in the air (e.g. a feeling or mood)
• to wander; to walk around aimlessly
• to be unsteady; to be unstable - archaism
• to falter; to flinch; to wince - archaism
• to live in unreliable circumstances - archaism

noun:

• meridian (e.g. in acupuncture); channel; one of the lines connecting vital points in the body
• thread of connection; chain of reasoning

noun:

• mutual mourning; when one is in mourning, one doesn not make condolence calls or offers of help to others in mourning

noun:

• obtaining the respective numbers of cranes and tortoises from the total of their heads and legs; calculating the values of two unknown quantities from their unit total and the total of one of their attributes

noun:

• humour; humor; temper; mood; spirits
• safety; health; well-being; one's situation

adjectival noun:

• in a good mood; in high spirits; happy; cheery; merry; chipper - usu. as ご機嫌 ➜ ご機嫌【ごきげん】

noun / ~する noun:

• selling on the market (in the marketplace, in stores, etc.); making something commercially available

~の noun:

• commercial (e.g. software); over-the-counter; off-the-shelf; store-bought

noun:

• soldiers garrisoned at strategic posts in Kyushu in ancient times
• Chinese soldiers stationed to protect remote regions of the country during the Tang dynasty ［ぼうじん］

noun:

• the eight precepts (in addition to the five precepts, prohibitions against: lying in a luxurious bed; self-decoration, song & dance; and eating after noon) - Buddhism term ➜ 五戒

noun:

• battlecry; cheer; cry where one breathes in a large volume of air and then releases it suddenly in a loud cry ➜ 鬨の声

noun / ~する noun:

• rushing at the enemy ➜ 突貫

noun:

• palace kitchen in which final preparations to the imperial family's meals (e.g. reheating) were made (Heian period)
• kitchen (in a noble's manor)

noun:

• fixed game; bid-rigging; put-up job; contest in which the victor is practically known beforehand (e.g. due to unfair conditions or an obvious difference in strength) - from 出来合いのレース - abbreviation

noun:

• expanded system of guilt by association in Japanese election law, which stipulates that an elected official may lose his position if someone in his campaign commits a crime ➜ 連座制

expression / ichidan verb:

• to die in (a foreign land); to engage in something until death comes; to do something for the rest of one's life

noun:

• catchers who warm up pitchers in the bullpen - Baseball term
• tank (character that soaks up damage for the rest of the party in an MMORPG)

noun:

• classical form of i-adjective inflection (easily recognized by its attributive form ending in "ki" and predicative form ending in "shi")