expression:

• phrase used (usu. with accompanying crossed fingers gesture) to ward off catching 'dirtiness' from another child - children's language ➜ えんがちょ

noun:

• dusky batfish (Platax pinnatus, species of Western Pacific spadefish found from the Ryukyu Islands to Australia)

noun:

• paper put between newly completed prints to prevent the ink from smudging; interleaf; slip sheet

expression / noun:

• person who has lost something they used to rely on; a monkey fallen from the tree [literal] - idiom

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to joke; to jest; to kid; to josh
• to make fun of; to laugh at; to play a prank
• to romp; to gambol; to frolic; to frisk; to mess around; to fool around; to screw around
• to neck; to make out

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to cling to; to hold on to; to hold fast to
• to grapple
• to set about doing; to begin; to commence; to undertake
• to take hold of; to possess; to haunt - of a demon, thought, emotion, etc. ➜ 取り憑く【とりつく】
• to obtain a clue; to get a lead

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to mince; to cut fine; to chop up; to hash; to shred
• to carve; to engrave; to chisel; to notch
• to tick away (time); to beat out (e.g. rhythm); to record the passing moments
• to etch (into one's mind); to remember distinctly - as 心に刻む, etc. ➜ 心に刻む
• to have tattooed - archaism
• to torment - archaism

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to stop (an activity); to cease; to discontinue; to end; to quit ［止める・已める］
• to cancel; to abandon; to give up; to abolish; to abstain; to refrain

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to collect (debts); to dun; to exact; to extort
• to appoint; to promote; to give patronage
• to emphasize; to focus on; to call attention to ➜ 取り立てて

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to become; to get; to grow; to be; to reach; to attain
• to result in; to prove to be
• to consist of; to be composed of
• to succeed; to be complete
• to change into; to be exchanged for
• to play a role ➜ 成り済ます
• to be promoted - Shōgi term

godan ~る verb:

• to do ... - as お+masu-stem+になる, ご+noun+になる, etc. - honorific language

godan ~ぐ verb / transitive:

• to connect; to link together
• to tie; to fasten; to restrain
• to maintain; to preserve; to keep
• to transfer (phone call); to put a person through
• to hedge; to buy or sell forward

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to seize; to catch; to grasp; to grip; to grab; to clutch; to hold; to catch hold of; to lay one's hands on
• to obtain; to acquire; to get; to win; to capture
• to understand; to grasp; to comprehend

noun:

• comparing autumn leaves to a garment
• layered garments that mimic the colours of autumn leaves (worn from the 9th to the 11th month of the lunar calendar)

adverb / ~と adverb / noun / ~する noun:

• moving from place to place; being passed around repeatedly
• rolling about

noun / ~する noun:

• (death from) starvation; starving to death - sensitive ➜ 餓死【がし】

noun:

• reeling in (thread, etc.)
• transport by passing from hand-to-hand

noun:

• leap up from the initial charge in order to surprise the opponent - Sumo term

noun:

• stripping to one's waist; being bare from the waist up

noun / ~する noun:

• letting out blood prior to cooking; draining blood from meat, fish, etc.

noun:

• seafood soup; soup made from fish, seaweed, etc. according to local availability

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• revival (e.g. musical); come-back
• restoration; rebirth; resurrection

noun:

• feeling that something has come too late - colloquialism

interjection:

• hi; hello - male language
• hey; listen!
• oh - expression of mild surprise
• come on! - in kendo

noun:

• heaven of the thirty-three; one of the six heavens of the desire realm - Buddhism term ➜ 六欲天

noun:

• heaven of the Four Great Kings; one of the six heavens of the desire realm - Buddhism term ➜ 四天王・六欲天