ichidan verb / transitive:

• to stop; to stay (e.g. the night); to cease; to put an end to
• to contain; to keep (in position, in place); to limit
• to record (e.g. a fact); to retain ➜ 記憶にとどめる

noun:

• person or organization (esp. yakuza) in charge of solving problems caused by subordinates - slang
• member of a biker gang driving behind the rest (in charge of keeping the police away from the other members) - slang ➜ 暴走族

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• thundering; purring; grumbling (e.g. stomach) - onomatopoeia
• something large and heavy starting to roll - onomatopoeia
• scattered about; common; commonplace; all over - onomatopoeia
• idleness; idling about - onomatopoeia
• having a foreign substance in (e.g. one's eye or stomach) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• thunder - children's language - onomatopoeia

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to entrust (a matter) to; to leave to
• to abandon oneself to (e.g. pleasure); to yield to (e.g. anger); to devote oneself to

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to tower above the rest; to be by far the best; to be prominent; to be outstanding; to be a cut above

noun / ~の noun:

• firing one shot at a time; single-shot gun ➜ 単発銃【たんぱつじゅう】
• having only one engine; single-engined aeroplane; single-engined airplane ➜ 単発機【たんぱつき】
• one-shot (e.g. story); non-serial; one-off; single occasion

expression / ichidan verb:

• to think about; to send one's heart out to; to give more than a passing thought to; to think of something far away; to think nostalgically upon (esp. one's hometown) ➜ 思いを致す

godan ~つ verb / intransitive verb:

• to be knotty (of a tree, etc.); to be gnarled
• to be rough and bony (hands, fingers, etc.); to be gnarled; to be knobby

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to cut deep into
• to cut one's way into (an enemy position); to rush on; to raid; to attack
• to press someone hard (e.g. with questions); to get to the heart of (a matter)

noun:

• blue dragon ➜ 青竜
• Azure Dragon (god said to rule over the eastern heavens) ➜ 青竜
• seven mansions (Chinese constellations) of the eastern heavens - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿
• large horse with a bluish-leaden coat
• shape of an old pine tree

noun:

• salary supplement, e.g. for work performed at inconvenient times or as overtime allowance usually for so-called exempt workers, i.e. workers who are expected to work a certain number of overtime hours ➜ 割増賃金

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to grab a person by his vulnerable spot; to curry favour with one's superior; to curry favor with one's superior

noun:

• imperial palace; shrine - honorific language
• Grand Empress Dowager; Empress Dowager
• woman of imperial lineage who has borne a child
• elderly woman of imperial lineage

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to tie up in a bundle (e.g. straw, hair, bills, letters); to bundle; to sheathe
• to govern; to manage; to control; to administer
• to fold (one's arms); to put together (one's hands) ［つかねる］

noun / ~の noun:

• number one; first; first place

adverb:

• best; most

noun:

• game; round; bout

adverb:

• as a test; as an experiment; by way of experiment; by way of trial; tentatively ➜ 試しに

noun:

• song (e.g. in noh); piece

noun:

• main text (as opposed to any included commentary or annotations)
• authentic text (e.g. of a treaty, as opposed to any translation not specified as authentic) - Law term
• Chinese classical literature

noun:

• putting on a knowing air when one only knows the title of the book (play, etc.); pretending to understand the nature of something when one only knows its name - four character idiom

noun:

• traditional Japanese poem with verses of five and seven morae repeated at least three times, usu. ending with a verse of seven ➜ 短歌
• long epic song with shamisen accompaniment (developed in Kyoto in the late 16th century) ［ながうた］ ➜ 長唄

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to joke; to jest; to kid; to josh
• to make fun of; to laugh at; to play a prank
• to romp; to gambol; to frolic; to frisk; to mess around; to fool around; to screw around
• to neck; to make out

expression / ichidan verb:

• to put the scalpel to; to perform an operation on
• to take drastic measures to get to the bottom of something; to make a searching inquiry; to put something under the microscope - idiom

noun:

• card to pick up (in card games); card that is picked up by players instead of read (in karuta); card printed with the second half of a poem (in karuta) ➜ 読み札

noun:

• eldest child; oldest child; first-born child
• child who carries on the family name
• pre-ritsuryo official established in key provinces, responsible for administration of his home and surrounding provinces - archaism ➜ 律令制・総領【すべおさ】
• head of a warrior clan (Kamakura period) - archaism

noun:

• bonding temperature (for diffusion bonding); welding temperature (for diffusion welding); junction temperature (of a semiconductor)

noun:

• bystander's vantage point; outsider's better grasp of the situation - four character idiom

expression:

• onlookers see more of the game than the players do; people watching a game of go see 8 moves further ahead [literal]

expression:

• a fox is not taken twice in the same snare; there are no birds in last year's nest; there aren't always loach under the willow tree [literal]; good luck does not always repeat itself - proverb