expression:

• capitalizing on the fame of a parent; riding a parent's coat-tails

noun:

• Angelica keiskei (species of angelica, a herb of the parsley family)

noun / ~する noun:

• going to the bathroom in a group; going off to urinate together - vulgar - abbreviation ➜ 連れ小便

noun:

• rhinoceros beetle (esp. the Japanese rhinoceros beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus)

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to mope; to brood; to be in low spirits; to have the blues

noun / ~する noun:

• tuck at the shoulder (of a child's clothes); shoulder tuck ➜ 肩揚げを下ろす【かたあげをおろす】・肩揚げが取れる【かたあげがとれる】

noun:

• Department of Divinities (1868-1871) ［じんぎかん］ - obsolete term
• Department of Worship (under the ritsuryo system) - archaism ➜ 律令制

noun:

• manifestation of a Buddha (or bodhisattva, etc.) in the form of a Shinto kami

noun:

• dharmalaksana (dharma characteristics, the specific characteristics of all manifest phenomena) - Buddhism term ➜ 法性
• Hosso sect of Buddhism - abbreviation ➜ 法相宗

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to dodge (e.g. a question); to evade; to sidestep
• to give (someone) the slip

noun:

• Buddhist missionary, esp. in Jodo, Pure Land, etc. sects; Buddhist minister (in the West)

expression:

• a wise person always follows the right course; a wise man never wavers - four character idiom

noun:

• financial adjustment monies; public finance adjustment reserve funds stipulated in the Local Finance Act

noun:

• the fate of a nation; life-or-death (situation) for a nation; national crisis - four character idiom

noun:

• refreshing breeze and the bright moon; a beautiful nocturnal scene with a full moon - four character idiom

noun:

• rope weapon with a sickle on one end and a ring on the other

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to rain (drops on the large side); to go to pieces; to be taken apart ➜ ばらばら

expression:

• to catch a weasel asleep; to pluck out the eye of a live horse [literal] - idiom - sensitive - obsolete term

noun:

• drug czar; Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy; ONDCP

expression:

• the whole year's plans should be made on New Year's Day

noun:

• Pugwash conferences (series of international conferences promoting the peaceful application of science)

noun:

• Śakra (Deva); Shakra; Indra; Shakra Devanam Indra; the king of heaven in Hindu mythology - Buddhism term

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to tip off (e.g. the police); to inform (on); to squeal; to rat

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to take a lesson from (a wise person); to follow in the footsteps of - idiom

noun:

• clocks made in Japan, mainly in the Edo period; clocks that tell Japanese time