noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• hyperconsciousness; too great a sense (of); something being only one's imagination; letting imagination run away with one - four character idiom

expression:

• there is no love like a father's; no child knows how dear he is to his parents - proverb

suffix noun:

• intimate (or disdainful) suffix used after a person's name (or the base of an adjective describing that person)

noun:

• fat-bodied, small-mouthed earthenware jar for carrying water
• water vessel used for a baby's first bath

noun:

• thrice moving from house to house
• the importance of creating an environment conducive to a child's learning - abbreviation ➜ 三遷の教え

noun:

• water offered to wrestlers just prior to a bout - Sumo term
• fresh water used when making up one's face

expression:

• hindsight is 20-20 (even for a fool); an afterwit is everybody's wit - proverb

expression / ~よい adjective:

• it's OK to ...; it's best to ...; it's alright to ... - usu. verb-て...

noun / ~する noun:

• rise (e.g. of a movement); emergence; rearing one's head; gaining prominence; coming to the fore; gaining power; gathering strength

noun:

• material (for a story, article, etc.); information; news item - from たね, kana reversed ➜ 種【たね】
• joke; jest; pretending; made-up story
• proof; evidence
• (magician's) trick; secret
• ingredients

noun:

• used women's clothing such as bloomers and high-school sailor-suit uniforms (esp. as a source of sexual arousal) - from ブルマー and セーラー服 - slang

noun:

• kasaya; monk's stole - Buddhism term
• wearing an article of clothing in the same manner as a kasaya (i.e. draped over one shoulder) - abbreviation ➜ 袈裟懸け

noun:

• Four Pillar astrology; originally Chinese method of fortune-telling based on the time, date, month and year of a person's birth - four character idiom

expression:

• actio libera in causa; manufacturing the conditions of one's own defence (e.g. getting drunk in order to commit a crime)

noun:

• facing one's opponent head-on and winning via overwhelmingly superior strength or skill; match in which a yokozuna overpowers his opponent - Sumo term

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to pluck (e.g. a fruit, a leaf); to pick; to tear off (e.g. a ticket stub, a branch from a tree)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to follow suit; to imitate or follow someone blindly
• to ride on someone's back; to ride someone's coattails; to take advantage (e.g. of another's popularity)

noun:

• biography of a brave fighter; heroic saga; chivalric romance
• tale of one's heroism; episode of bravery; acts of violence

noun:

• dismissal; firing; retirement; being relieved from one's post; being relieved of a burden

noun:

• baby's play pen; play yard
• Pleiad; La Pléiade; one of a group of seven 16th century French poets - From French

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to take a nap; to catch forty winks; to catch some Z's

expression / ichidan verb:

• to hold a sword above one's head ➜ 大上段【だいじょうだん】
• to be haughty; to be arrogant ➜ 大上段【だいじょうだん】

godan ~ぐ verb / transitive:

• to pour (into) ➜ 注ぐ【つぐ】
• to sprinkle on (from above); to water (e.g. plants); to pour onto; to spray
• to shed (tears)
• to concentrate one's energy (strength, attention, etc.) on; to devote to; to fix (one's eyes) on

godan ~ぐ verb / intransitive verb:

• to flow into (e.g. of a river); to run into; to drain into
• to fall (of rain, snow); to pour down

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to cock one's head in puzzlement; to tilt one's head in contemplation; to wrack one's brain; to think hard

noun:

• gap; space
• break; interlude; interval ［すき］
• chink (in one's armor, armour); chance; opportunity; weak spot ［すき・げき・ひま］
• breach (of a relationship between people) ［げき・ひま］