noun / ~する noun:

• removing a bad taste; cleansing one's palate

noun:

• palate cleanser; intermezzo; dish or beverage to cleanse one's palate between dishes of a meal

noun:

• taking a day off by paying one's own fee to one's master (of a prostitute; often in order to see her lover)

noun / ~の noun:

• pension (esp. public servant's)

noun:

• a lord giving a land holding to a vassal - archaism ➜ 恩地

noun:

• poem (esp. tanka); song; composition of a poem or song
• pilgrim's song; pilgrim's hymn - Buddhism term ➜ 御詠歌
• singing a poem or song in a loud voice

noun:

• pig's snout; nose resembling a pig's snout
• snorting like a pig (while laughing)

noun:

• chambermaid; room maid

expression:

• it's not a problem; it's not a big deal; (person or thing) can be easily beaten or bettered (by one) ➜ 目じゃない

noun:

• (being beholden to someone for a favor of) a night's lodging and a meal - four character idiom

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to pay for another; to pay someone else's debt as a loan to him; to make temporary payment on a person's behalf

noun:

• a boat's floorboards; ship's hold

noun:

• getting one's finger caught (e.g. in a door); getting one's finger pinched; jamming one's finger in a door ➜ 指を詰める
• yakuza finger-cutting ritual

noun:

• pillow money; tip left by the pillow for the room maid ➜ 枕銭

noun:

• near one's knee
• under the protection of (e.g. one's parents); under the care of
• territory of a powerful person ［ひざもと］ ➜ お膝元
• address used after the names of one's parents, grandparents, etc. in a letter ［しっか］

noun:

• one's student (esp. a former one); one's pupil; one's disciple

noun:

• stretching out a string; stretching out like a string
• silk reeling; silk spinning; filature; silk reeler; silk spinner ➜ 糸取り
• pulling someone's strings
• appearance of strings from a Buddha's fingertips when being prayed to (folk belief)
• menstruation - euphemism

noun:

• speaking with a trill; rolling one's r's

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to put; to place
• to leave (behind)
• to establish (an organization, a facility, a position, etc.); to set up
• to appoint (someone to a certain position); to hire; to employ
• to place (one's trust, one's faith, etc); to bear (in mind etc)
• to put down a tool (e.g. a pen) hence stopping what one is doing with that tool
• to take in (boarders, etc.); to provide lodging in one's house
• to separate spatially or temporally

godan ~く verb / auxiliary verb:

• to do something in advance - after the -te form of a verb - usually written using kana alone
• to leave something in a certain state; to keep something in a certain state - after the -te form of a verb - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• young adult still living at home; dependent ➜ 部屋住み
• female servant working for a lady-in-waiting working in the inner part of a lord's house (Edo period) ➜ 部屋方
• freeloader living in a samurai's house
• young kabuki actor in service of a master (Edo period)

noun:

• Buddhist saint; man of high repute; guest of honor; guest of honour

noun:

• visitor's or pilgrims' lodgings in a temple; priest's quarters

expression:

• wooing technique; the way to a man's (woman's) heart

noun:

• poking one's food around using one's chopsticks; playing with one's food with one's chopsticks (a breach of etiquette)

godan ~る verb:

• to ride on a person's shoulders; to be carried on a person's back

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hit (e.g. one's head); to strike; to crash into
• to throw (e.g. a ball, a question, a demand)
• to express; to vent (e.g. one's anger)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to only make work for oneself; to stir up a hornet's nest; to put one's foot in one's mouth - idiom