noun:

• Edo-period hairstyle for the common man (the entire head shaved just above the ear, with the remainder tied up in the back) - archaism

expression:

• It's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one; They to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep; Poor thinking is futile; Inadequate ideas are worse than none at all - proverb ➜ 下手の考え休むに似たり

expression:

• It's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one; They to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep; Poor thinking is futile; Inadequate ideas are worse than none at all - proverb ➜ 下手な考え休むに似たり

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to filch; to snatch; to pinch; to swindle; to cheat (someone out of something); to rip off
• to steal (an idea, work, etc.); to plagiarize
• to arrest; to nab; to round up
• to open one's mouth wide and eat heartily; to gulp down food

expression:

• first; firstly; first of all; to begin with; in the beginning; at the beginning
• Introduction; Preface - as section heading of a book, etc. - usually written using kana alone

adverb:

• how; in what way
• however much; however (e.g. easy, rich, sad); whatever; how much

interjection:

• hey; oi - archaism

noun:

• person in charge (including a supervisory role for other staff); person responsible for ...; responsible party; supervisor; manager

noun / ~する noun:

• looking up (e.g. a word in a dictionary); retrieval (e.g. data); searching for; referring to

noun:

• result (of an election); success or defeat (in an election)
• winning or losing (a lottery, raffle, etc.)

noun:

• beauties of nature; the traditional themes of natural beauty in Japanese aesthetics - four character idiom ➜ 花鳥諷詠
• artistic pursuits involving nature themes

~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to yield; to give in; to be daunted; to shrink

~する verb (spec.) / transitive:

• to bend (knee, etc.)
• to subdue; to overpower

~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to feel down - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• cancellation; writing off (a debt)
• indicating a long sound in kana ➜ 長音【ちょうおん】

noun:

• tug o' war; tug of war

noun / ~する noun:

• abbreviation; simplified form of a character; cutting out some strokes in a character; omitting some passages

noun:

• entrance (i.e. of a Japanese house) ➜ 上がり口
• start of a rise (e.g. in prices)

noun:

• order - Biology term
• item (of a budget revision, etc.)

counter:

• counter for go pieces; counter for surrounded positions (in go) ➜ 囲碁

temporal noun:

• eight minutes

noun:

• triangular-swept clerical script (clerical script whose horizontal lines end in a noticeable triangular tail) ➜ 六体

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be experienced in the ways of the world; to taste the bitter and the sweet

noun:

• purification ceremony held on the first day of the snake in the third month of the lunar calendar - archaism

noun:

• no food or drink (e.g. as a sign in a library, etc.); no eating or drinking

noun:

• simplified form (of a kanji); any of 22 simplified non-joyo kanji variants commonly used in print ➜ 常用漢字

noun:

• Democratic Party (formed in 2016 from the merger of the DPJ and Ishin) ➜ 民主党【みんしゅとう】・維新の党【いしんのとう】
• Democratic Progressive Party (Taiwan)

noun:

• yellow cave goby (Trimma taylori, species found in Indo-Pacific waters); cave dwarfgoby; yellow-speckled pygmy-goby

noun:

• night mooring (for a boat) ➜ 夜泊
• sleeping away for the night (esp. in a red light district)

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to happen to be available; to have on hand; to have in stock ➜ あり合わせる

noun:

• alternative name; alternate name
• assumed name of a customer in a brothel (for anonymity)
• stage name