expression / ~する noun:

• floating up and sinking down; rising and falling

expression / noun:

• one's station in life; one's personal history; one's circumstances
• one's lot; one's destiny; one's future

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to fix one's hair (hairdo) (esp. if disheveled); to straighten one's hair; to make an adjustment to one's hair; to do (up) one's hair

noun / ~する noun:

• rising and falling; going up and down

noun:

• being done for; giving up; being in a hopeless situation; not knowing what to do; being brought to one's knees; throwing up (one's) hands [literal]

noun:

• single horseman
• wait for one tile to finish one's pair and one's hand; wait for half of one's pair with four melds completed - Mahjong term ➜ 単騎待ち【たんきまち】

noun:

• pasturing (e.g. cattle); turning loose (to graze) ➜ 放し飼い【はなしがい】

noun:

• nine gates; winning hand consisting of one pung of 1s, one pung of 9s and one tile each of every other number, plus one more suited tile, all in the same suit - Mahjong term - From English "chi"

noun:

• waiting for one tile to finish one's pair and one's hand; waiting for half of one's pair with four melds completed - Mahjong term

noun:

• ex-nerd; one who has given up geeky or nerdy hobbies; one who has given up stereotypically geeky dress, mannerisms, etc. ➜ オタク

noun:

• ups and downs; up-and-down - From English "up down"

noun:

• one's relatives by blood and marriage (in blood and law); one's kith and kin - four character idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to try and reach above one's station and fail; to try and accomplish something beyond one's abilities and fail; a monkey tries to catch the moon (and drowns) [literal] - idiom ➜ 猿猴捉月

adverb / ~の noun:

• one by one; one each; one at a time ➜ ずつ

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to hold up over one's head; to hold aloft
• to hold over something; to hold (one's hands) out (e.g. towards a fire); to cover something with something
• to hold up to shade one's eyes, face, etc.

noun:

• eyes and ears; seeing and hearing
• one's attention; one's interest

noun / ~する noun:

• work (film, book)
• production; creation; turning (something) out; development

noun / ~する noun:

• spinning rapidly; turning quickly; fast-forward (VCR, etc.); scanning

noun / ~する noun:

• everything turning out fine; the whole thing being settled

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to grovel; to go down on one's hands and knees ➜ 這い蹲う

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to grovel; to go down on one's hands and knees ➜ 這い蹲る

adverbial noun / noun:

• one part; one portion; one section; some
• one copy (e.g. of a document)

expression / suffix:

• one Nth part (e.g. one fifth, one tenth); one out of N - after number N ➜ 分の

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to open one's mouth wide and eat heartily; to gulp down food ➜ ぱくぱく

noun:

• declaring that one is one tile away from winning on one's first discard and before any tiles have been called or kongs declared - Mahjong term ➜ 立直【リーチ】