noun:

• inability to follow Buddhist teachings; person unable to follow Buddhist teachings - Buddhism term

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be a bit hungry; to be a bit peckish ➜ 小腹【こばら】・腹が空く【はらがすく】

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to let down one's guard; to relax one's guard

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to sleep like a log; to sleep like a baby - idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to hold one's breath; to bate one's breath

noun:

• leaping flames; flying sparks

noun / ~する noun:

• spread of fire (due to leaping flames)
• repercussions in unanticipated areas; spilling over; effects of an incident spreading to those seemingly uninvolved

noun:

• impetigo contagiosa - colloquialism - usually written using kana alone ➜ 膿痂疹・膿疱疹

~の noun / noun:

• average; medium; common; ordinary

noun / ~の noun:

• mid-grade (item); regular grade

suffix noun:

• same level as; equal to; equivalent to; on par with
• each (e.g. month); every
• row of (teeth, houses, etc.); line of

expression:

• better starve than fatten on ill-gotten wealth; don't lower yourself to unjust acts, no matter how desperate you are; refraining to drink from a spring called Robber's Spring even if thirsty [literal] - proverb

noun:

• bout that goes according to a wrestler's strategy; match that goes according to one's plan - four character idiom - Sumo term

noun:

• staple; stapler clip
• staple (food, crop)
• staple (fiber) ➜ ステープルファイバー
• cable clip; clip used to attach electrical cable to wooden building material ➜ ステップル

expression:

• to each their own; different strokes for different folks; cut your coat to suit your cloth; a crab digs a hole like its own shell [literal] - idiom

noun:

• top and bottom; high and low; above and below; upper and lower ends; up and down

noun / ~する noun:

• going up and down; rising and falling; fluctuating
• going and coming back

noun:

• upper and lower classes; ruler and ruled; the government and the people
• first and second volumes

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to make a lovely picture; to be perfect for a picture - idiom

expression / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• picture-perfect; picturesque - idiom

expression:

• So many people, so many minds; Everyone has his own ideas and tastes; It takes all sorts to make a world; To each his (her) own - four character idiom

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to all come in (e.g. teeth); to all come out (e.g. seedlings, flowers)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to spend all of one's free time; to spend one's time without constraint

noun:

• Bizen sword (mid-Heian to early Kamakura periods)
• ancient Bizen ware (Kamakura to early Momoyama periods) ➜ 備前焼

expression:

• not negligible; not a little; to no small degree; to no small extent; quite a lot

expression / adjective:

• to not understand what somebody is getting at; to not understand what is being talked about

expression:

• learn to crawl before you learn to walk; until you ride a horse, ride a cow [literal] - proverb

adverb:

• or; otherwise
• furthermore; also
• perhaps; by some chance; possibly - archaism
• that being said; be that as it may - archaism
• however; but - archaism
• not to mention; needless to say - archaism
• as expected; sure enough - archaism
• really; at all - used to express emphatic denial, suspicion, or emotion - archaism

noun:

• how to manage (e.g. case); how to handle (e.g. machine); way with (e.g. children, animal)

expression:

• just as it is reassuring to have a companion when traveling, it is important for us to care for each other as we pass through this life

expression / adverb:

• by all means; at any cost; no matter what; at any rate; surely
• whether (one is) willing or not; willingly or unwillingly; willy-nilly
• on no account; by no means - with. neg. verb
• in the end; in the long run; after all; eventually

noun:

• seen in the dark or at a distance; (a woman) looking prettier when seen in the dark or at a distance - four character idiom