godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to wield; to brandish; to flourish; to wave (about); to swing
• to display (one's knowledge); to show off
• to abuse (one's power)
• to manipulate someone

expression / ichidan verb:

• to carry a bomb [literal]; to have a bomb about to go off
• to have an imminent problem; to be in danger of relapse

noun:

• archaic period of time (usu. a period of approx. two hours corresponding to one of the signs of the Chinese zodiac)
• carving; engraving; cutting; mincing ［刻］
• victory ［剋］
• strictness; cruelty

expression / adjective:

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

noun:

• pidgin; creole; new language created by blending two or more existing languages (e.g. Afrikaans) - Linguistics term
• contamination; creation of unorthodox words or phrases by combining terms of similar form or meaning - Linguistics term ➜ コンタミネーション

~の noun:

• collared; having a collar

noun:

• lifestyle; circumstances; what can be observed about one's wealth by looking at one's collar - archaism
• one's collar when wearing multiple kimonos - obscure term ➜ 襟元

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be afraid of; to fear; to dread; to be nervous (about); to be shy (of)

noun:

• four-color theorem (colour) (theorem stating that any map can be colored such that no two adjacent segments have the same color, if only four colors are used)

counter:

• counter for small animals ［ひき］
• counter for rolls of cloth (two han in size)
• counter for horses ［き］ - archaism

noun:

• roll of cloth

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to go on about (one's love affairs); to speak proudly of (one's spouse, girlfriend, etc.); to speak fondly of

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to keep a fine house; to put up a front; to make the front of the house nice (and be pretentious about it)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to teach someone a lesson; to show someone a thing or two; to show someone what one can do - idiom

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to emphasize; to state emphatically; to speak loudly about; to raise one's voice; to lift one's voice

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to become one tile away from completion - Mahjong term ➜ 聴牌
• to be at one's wits' end; to be about to blow one's fuse

godan ~る verb:

• to wander about; to wander around; to hang around; to loiter

expression:

• people may bring about their demise for love (like a deer coming forth when it hears a hunter's whistle in mating season); it is easy to have one's weak points taken advantage of - obscure term

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hear; to catch (the sound of something)
• to hear about (rumour, etc.); to overhear; to learn of (something)
• to get used to hearing

expression:

• if everyone crosses against the red light, then there's nothing to be afraid of; there's no reason to feel guilty about doing something bad if everyone does it - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• cheating on train fare by buying tickets covering only the first and last portions of the journey (so-called because traditional pipes had metal only in two short segments at the ends) ➜ 煙管乗り

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to cling to; to hold on to; to hold fast to
• to set about doing; to begin; to commence; to undertake
• to take hold of; to possess; to haunt - of an illness, demon, etc.
• to approach (a person); to deal with (someone)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to divide in two; to divide in half
• to apportion; to divide among; to portion out; to allot; to assign

noun:

• multi-tiered food boxes that can be carried by hand - abbreviation ➜ 提げ重箱
• female prostitute who carried multi-tiered food boxes about and peddled foodstuffs (Meiwa and Anei eras) - archaism

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

~する verb (irregular):

• to do; to carry out; to perform
• to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into)
• to serve as; to act as; to work as
• to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
• to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as - as 〜にする,〜とする
• to decide on; to choose - as 〜にする

~する verb (irregular) / intransitive verb:

• to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.) - as 〜がする
• to be (in a state, condition, etc.)
• to be worth; to cost
• to pass (of time); to elapse

~する verb (irregular) / transitive:

• to place, or raise, person A to a post or status B - as AをBにする
• to transform A to B; to make A into B; to exchange A for B - as AをBにする
• to make use of A for B; to view A as B; to handle A as if it were B - as AをBにする
• to feel A about B - as AをBにする

suffix / ~する verb (irregular):

• verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs")

auxiliary verb / ~する verb (irregular):

• creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go") ➜ お願いします・御
• to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to; to attempt to - as 〜うとする,〜ようとする ➜ とする

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