noun:

• kid; brat - archaism
• Edo term used to debase people from Kansai

noun:

• Vietminh (Vietnamese Independence League organized to obtain freedom from French colonial rule)

noun:

• in calligraphy, a triangular stroke going from upper left to lower right

noun:

• local governmental body that requires federal oversight to recover from its debts

noun:

• diversion (action meant to attract attention away from the real objective); feint ➜ 陽動作戦

expression / ichidan verb:

• to rush out from one's mouth (words, phrases, etc.)

noun:

• hiding one's intelligence to avoid being different from the common people ➜ 和光同塵

noun:

• four-eye pygmy goby (Trimma hayashii, found from Japan to the Solomons)

noun:

• cloudy catshark (Scyliorhinus torazame, species found from Japan and Korea to Taiwan)

noun:

• period of Japanese economic expansion from February 2002 to October 2007

noun:

• period of Japanese economic expansion from February 2002 to October 2007 ➜ だらだらかげろう景気

expression:

• come; go; stay - used as a polite imperative - honorific language ➜ 御出でなさる
• welcome! ➜ いらっしゃい

expression:

• come hell or high water - incorrect variant of 石にかじりついても - idiom ➜ 石にかじりついても

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to think; to consider; to believe - 想う has connotations of heart-felt
• to think (of doing); to plan (to do)
• to judge; to assess; to regard
• to imagine; to suppose; to dream
• to expect; to look forward to
• to feel; to be (in a state of mind); to desire; to want
• to recall; to remember

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to spread; to extend; to expand; to enlarge; to widen; to broaden - emphatic form of 広げる ➜ 広げる【ひろげる】
• to unfold; to open; to unroll; to unwrap ➜ 広げる【ひろげる】
• to scatter about; to spread around ➜ 広げる【ひろげる】
• to make flourish; to cause to prosper ➜ 広げる【ひろげる】

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to spread; to extend; to expand; to enlarge; to widen; to broaden ［広げる・拡げる］
• to unfold; to open; to unroll; to unwrap
• to scatter about; to spread around ［広げる・拡げる］
• to make flourish; to cause to prosper ［広げる・拡げる］

noun / ~する noun:

• death from disease; death from illness

noun:

• from times immemorial; from ancient times

expression:

• aside from this; aside from these

noun:

• news from home; letter from home - archaism

noun:

• pounding down earth around the roots of a tree
• adding short branches of flowers to the base of an arrangement in ikebana

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to move; to stir; to shift; to shake; to swing
• to operate; to run; to go; to work
• to be touched; to be influenced
• to change; to vary; to fluctuate; to waver
• certain; factual - as 動かぬ, 動かない, etc.
• to be transferred

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to divide
• to cut; to halve; to separate; to split; to rip
• to break; to crack; to smash
• to dilute
• to fall below
• to discount
• to step over (a line, etc.)

noun:

• three-part joke, where the first two parts are similar and mundane, while the third is the punchline (e.g. How do you get to my place? Go down to the corner, turn left, and get lost.); rule of three (in comedy writing) ➜ 落ち【おち】

~する verb (spec.) / transitive:

• to let out; to utter; to produce; to emit; to give forth; to discharge
• to issue; to send; to give

~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to leave; to depart
• to occur; to appear

~する verb (spec.) / transitive:

• to shoot (an arrow or bullet); to fire