noun:

• fall; decline; lowering; hanging down; drooping; slanting (downward) Antonym: 上がり
• string apron; ornamental cords hanging from the front of a sumo wrestler's belt - Sumo term
• food offering to the gods; leftovers; hand-me-downs - usu. as お下がり ➜ お下がり
• leaving (one's master's place for home)

suffix noun / noun:

• a little after ...

adjectival noun / noun / suffix noun:

• method; manner; way; style
• appearance; air
• tendency
• folk song (genre of the Shi Jing) ➜ 六義
• wind (one of the five elements) ➜ 五大

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

• to ripen; to mature
• to be ready for action; to be the right time (to act)
• to be in common use; to come to sound natural
• to become skilled

~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to ripen; to mature
• to be ready for action; to be the right time (to act)
• to be in common use; to come to sound natural
• to become skilled

noun:

• blade; sword
• forged blade; wavy pattern on forged blades ➜ 刃文【はもん】
• sharpness
• unhulled rice - obscure term ➜ 籾

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• rustling - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun / ~の noun / adverb / ~する noun:

• dry; rough feeling; rough to the touch - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~する noun:

• rough (of a person); course; crude; unrefined; uncouth - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• catching fish with a net

adverb:

• completely; absolutely; totally ➜ 一向に
• (not) at all; (not) a bit; (not) in the least - in a negative sentence
• earnestly; intently; determinedly

noun:

• Jōdo Shinshū - abbreviation ➜ 一向宗

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb / transitive:

• to give one's name (as); to introduce oneself (as)
• to claim to be; to call oneself; to wear the title of
• to reveal oneself (as); to admit to being

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to adopt as one's name; to take (a name)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to call out the goods one is selling - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• eating with one's fingers
• snitching food; snatched food; secret eating; food snatched and eaten without the meal starting
• embezzlement; misappropriation; exploiting something
• flirting

noun:

• three countries
• Japan, China & India; Japan, Korea & China; all the world
• Three Kingdoms (in China, 220-280) ➜ 魏【ぎ】・蜀【しょく】・呉【ご】
• Three Kingdoms (in Korea, 57 BCE - 668 CE) ➜ 新羅【しらぎ】・百済【くだら】・高句麗【こうくり】

noun:

• low-ranking soldier
• graduation; outgrowing; moving on (from) - abbreviation ➜ 卒業
• low-ranking samurai (1870-1872) - abbreviation ➜ 卒族
• death (of a noble, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ 卒去

particle:

• than
• from; out of; since; at; on
• except; but; other than

adverb:

• more

noun:

• colour; color; hue; tint; tinge; shade
• complexion; skin colour; skin color
• look (on one's face); expression
• appearance; air; feeling
• personality; character
• tone (of one's voice, etc.); tune; sound; ring
• love; lust; sensuality; love affair ➜ 色仕掛け
• lover; paramour
• beauty; sexiness; physical appeal
• kind; type; variety - also written 種

adjective:

• fast; quick; hasty; brisk - esp. 速い, 疾い, 捷い
• early (in the day, etc.); premature - esp. 早い
• (too) soon; not yet; (too) early - esp. 早い
• easy; simple; quick - esp. 早い ➜ 手っ取り早い

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to stick; to paste; to affix - esp. 貼る

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb / transitive:

• to stretch; to spread; to strain; to tighten; to put up (tent)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to form (e.g. ice on a pond)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb / transitive:

• to fill; to swell

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to stick out; to put; to slap

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be expensive

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to keep a watch on; to be on the lookout

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to become one tile away from completion ［張る］ - Mahjong term ➜ テンパる・聴牌

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to span; to generate - Mathematics term

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to approach; to draw near; to come near; to be close to
• to gather (in one place); to come together; to meet
• to stop by (while on one's way to another place); to drop by; to make a short visit
• to grow old; to grow high (number, etc.) ➜ 年が寄る
• to grow (wrinkly) - in the form of しわが寄る
• to lean against; to recline on - also written as 倚る, 凭る
• to push one's opponent while holding their belt - Sumo term
• to decide on a price and come to a deal
• to be swayed by (a person); to yield to - archaism

noun:

• skin
• body (in the context of intimate bodily contact) ➜ 肌を許す

noun / suffix noun:

• surface; grain (e.g. of wood); texture
• disposition; temperament; character; type ➜ 肌が合う

~する verb (spec.):

• to face (each other); to be facing
• to be directed toward (the future, etc.); to be in response to; to be related to
• to receive (a client, etc.)
• to compare with; to contrast with; to be in opposition with; to be opposed to
• to confront; to oppose; to compete with

noun:

• pin (e.g. hairpin, bowling pin, golf pin, etc.)
• one (on dice, in cards, etc.) - From Portuguese "pinta"
• beginning; best ➜ キリ
• kickback

noun:

• ball
• ball (pitch that falls outside of the strike zone) - Baseball term
• bowl
• board (cardboard, pasteboard, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ ボール紙

adverbial noun / noun:

• avenue; street; way; road
• coming and going; street traffic
• flow (of water, air, etc.)
• transmission (of sound); reach (e.g. of voice)
• fame; reputation; popularity
• the same status or way; as (e.g. as expected, as I said)
• understanding; comprehension

counter:

• counter for sets of things; counter for methods, ways, types

noun:

• Sunday - abbreviation ➜ 日曜

suffix:

• day (of the month) - also んち or ち

suffix / counter:

• counter for days - also んち or ち

noun / suffix noun / prefix noun:

• Japan - abbreviation ➜ 日本

noun:

• beach; seashore
• captured pieces (in the game of go); captured stones - abbreviation - usually written using kana alone ➜ 揚げ浜
• Yokohama - abbreviation ➜ 横浜
• riverbank; riverside - archaism - Ōsaka dialect

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to go under; to pass under; to go through; to pass through
• to dive (into or under the water) ➜ 潜る【もぐる】
• to evade; to get around; to slip past
• to survive; to surmount

noun:

• jar; pot; vase
• dice cup
• depression (i.e. the basin of a waterfall)
• target (when aiming an arrow) - archaism
• (figurative) bull's-eye - usually written using kana alone ➜ 思うつぼ
• key point (of a conversation, etc.) - usually written using kana alone
• acupuncture point; moxibustion point - usually written using kana alone
• nodes on a fingerboard (of a shamisen, etc.) - often ツボ - usually written using kana alone