expression / godan ~く verb:

• to make progress; to move right ahead (with the work); to advance ➜ 捗【はか】

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to aim for laughs; to play to the crowd

expression / adjective:

• creepy (feeling); uneasy (feeling); bad (feeling); giving one the creeps; hideous; scaring; weird ➜ 気味が悪い【きみがわるい】

noun:

• river; stream ［かわ］

suffix:

• River; the ... river - suffix used with the names of rivers

noun:

• weather; the elements ➜ お天気・気象
• fair weather; fine weather

noun:

• the five fingers
• leading five; top five

noun:

• all creation; all nature; all the universe

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to exclude; to close the door to

noun:

• one house; the same house
• detached house

noun:

• blood content ➜ 血液中

~の noun:

• blood borne; within the blood

prefix:

• the big two...; two major...; two main...

noun:

• looking up and down, from heaven to earth (having nothing to be ashamed of); swearing by Heaven and Earth (having done nothing to be ashamed of) - four character idiom

noun:

• official letter (from the Emperor, Prime Minister, etc.); personal message

noun / ~する noun:

• handwritten letter; autograph letter

expression / adverb:

• in all; in total; collectively - esp. 合わせて, 合せて

expression / conjunction:

• in addition; besides; at the same time - esp. 併せて

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to loaf (particularly on the job); to idle one's time away; to dawdle

expression / ichidan verb:

• to sheathe one's sword; to lay down arms; to bury the hatchet

expression / ichidan verb:

• to play it both ways; to sit on the fence; to two-time

expression / ichidan verb:

• to two-time; to play it both ways; to sit on the fence ➜ 二股をかける

noun:

• in itself; the thing itself; this itself; for its own sake; per se

expression:

• year after year; as the years go by; with each passing year

expression / ~す verb (precursor to modern する):

• to be unable to make up one's mind; to sit on the fence ➜ 首鼠両端【しゅそりょうたん】

noun:

• call of a wild goose
• wild goose (esp. a lesser white-fronted goose, Anser erythropus) - usually written using kana alone
• tea made from twigs of high-quality tea plants (esp. gyokuro); high-grade kukicha (esp. from gyokuro) ➜ 茎茶・玉露

noun / ~する noun:

• settlement (financial); squaring accounts; clearing debts
• liquidation
• ending (a relationship); breaking up (with); burying (the past); redeeming (one's faults)

noun:

• top star (esp. male lead role in the all-female Takarazuka musical theater troupe); major celebrity

noun:

• useless book learning; knowing the theory but being able to put it into practice; practising swimming on a tatami mat [literal] - idiom - humorous term