expression / ichidan verb:

• to frustrate (e.g. someone's plans); to give someone a surprise; to give someone a blow; to scare the hell out of

expression:

• Talented people tend to be of delicate constitution; Men of genius tend to be of delicate health; Whom the gods love die young - four character idiom

noun:

• lower part; foot; lower direction
• left part of the stage (audience's or camera's POV); stage right (actor's POV)

noun / ~する noun:

• cutting a fingernail (or toenail) to the quick; cutting a nail too close

noun:

• deep-set nail; deep-set part of nail

expression:

• cannot do a thing; feeling handcuffed; being at the end of one's tether; being at one's wit's end

noun / ~する noun:

• running alone; running solo
• having a large lead (over the others); being far ahead (of everyone else)
• having one's own way; ignoring others' opinions and acting as one wishes; arbitrary action

expression:

• tread on a worm and it will turn; even a tiny bug will defend itself; even the weakest and smallest beings have their own wills, so do not make light of them - proverb

noun:

• the passage of people and horses; coming and going of people and horses - four character idiom

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to hear; to hear by chance; to hear by accident; to catch (the sound)

noun:

• mangrove monitor (Varanus indicus, species of carnivorous monitor lizard from the Western Pacific); mangrove goanna; Western Pacific monitor lizard

noun:

• United Nations General Assembly; General Assembly of the United Nations - abbreviation ➜ 国際連合総会【こくさいれんごうそうかい】

noun:

• General Assembly of the United Nations; United Nations General Assembly

godan ~つ verb / transitive:

• to set one's mind on doing; to get the idea of doing; to make up one's mind

~する verb (spec.):

• to come to (in the end); to end in
• to attribute; to blame

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

• to come to (in the end); to end in ➜ 帰する
• to attribute; to blame

noun / ~する noun:

• nailing on; nailing down; nailing shut; being glued (to); being unable to take one's eyes (from)
• being stationary; being rooted to the spot; halting; freezing - idiom
• (price) pegging

noun:

• first day of cherry blossoms reaching full bloom; first day in which at least 80% of the somei yoshino cherry blossom has opened (in a specific region or place)

noun:

• décolleté; décolletage; the part of a woman's chest and back exposed by a low neckline - From French
• robe décolletée; low-cut dress - abbreviation - From French ➜ ローブデコルテ

noun / ~の noun:

• low-cut (neckline style); décolleté - From French

noun:

• draft; draught; cold air entering through the crack of a door or window
• cooling off of a relationship; draft of cold air between two persons

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to harm oneself in an attempt to harm someone else; to spit at the heavens and have one's spit land back on one's face [literal] - proverb ➜ 天に唾する

noun:

• cool biz; cool business; business casual (Japanese Ministry of the Environment (MOE) campaign encouraging people to wear lighter clothes and for companies to set their air conditioners to 28C, etc.) ➜ ウォームビズ

noun:

• Sichuan (province in China) ➜ 四川【しせん】
• Shu; Shu Han; kingdom in China during the Three Kingdoms era (221-263) ➜ 三国【さんごく】
• Shu; kingdom in ancient China (-316 BCE)

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to compose (a Japanese poem); to write; to use as the theme of a poem
• to recite (e.g. a poem); to chant; to intone

noun:

• seeking one's own interests; straining (the interpretation or argument) to suit one's own interests; drawing water for one's own field - four character idiom

noun:

• threefold truth (all things are void; all things are temporary; all things are in the middle state between these two) (in Tendai) - Buddhism term