noun:

• being unable to make up one's mind; sitting on the fence - four character idiom ➜ 首鼠

expression / adjective:

• lazy; indolent; reluctant to get up off one's backside
• clumsy

noun:

• warm-up (before an act or a TV show recording)
• prologue; introduction

~と adverb:

• feelings; memories; imagined items or dreams that sprout up one after the other - onomatopoeia ➜ にょきにょき

noun:

• being unable to make up one's mind; sitting on the fence

noun:

• leaving (something) up to one's man (e.g. husband, boyfriend, etc.)

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to embrace; to hold in the arms (e.g. a baby); to hug
• to harbour (e.g. grudge); to harbor; to bear; to have (e.g. ambition); to entertain (e.g. hope, suspicion) ［いだく］

godan ~く verb:

• to have sex with; to make love to; to sleep with ［だく］
• to sit on eggs ［だく］

noun:

• robe worn by military officials with a round collar, unstitched open sides, and no wrapped fabric along the bottom ➜ 闕腋の袍
• small opening in the side of traditional Japanese clothing (where the sleeve meets the bodice, below the armpit); clothing with such an opening (usu. worn by women or children) ➜ 八つ口

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• easily; readily; quickly; flatly (refuse) - onomatopoeia
• lightly (seasoned food, applied make-up, etc.); plainly; simply - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• going back to sleep (e.g. after waking up in the morning)

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• aloof; morose; stuck-up; standoffish - onomatopoeia
• smelling strongly of something; having a pungent smell - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• stirring up trouble to get credit from the solution - From English "match pump, i.e. lighting a match and then putting it out with a water pump"

noun:

• unnecessary trouble brought upon oneself; stirring up a hornet's nest - abbreviation ➜ 藪をつついて蛇を出す

noun:

• walking practice; getting one's legs into shape
• warm-up; preparation

noun:

• being absorbed in self-indulgent pleasures; giving oneself up to debauchery and dissipation - four character idiom

noun:

• being absorbed in self-indulgent pleasures; giving oneself up to debauchery and dissipation - four character idiom

noun:

• dullard (gen. from not picking up on other people's feelings) ➜ 鈍い【にぶい】

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to get stiff legs (after walking or standing up for a long time) - idiom

expression:

• full up - colloquialism
• to have had enough of something (both good and bad nuance)

expression:

• nature itself is a good mother; even without parents, children grow up [literal] - proverb

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• rising up; towering; billowing (e.g. clouds of smoke) - onomatopoeia
• plump; chubby; fat - onomatopoeia
• shaggy; hairy - onomatopoeia

noun:

• solitary confinement in a dark cell without bedding (for up to one week)

expression:

• nature itself is a good mother; even without parents, children grow up [literal] - proverb

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to rise; to go up; to come up; to ascend; to be raised Antonym: 下がる
• to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to go in
• to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade
• to get out (of water); to come ashore
• to increase - also written as 騰る in ref. to price
• to improve; to make progress
• to be promoted; to advance
• to be made (of profit, etc.)
• to occur (esp. of a favourable result)
• to be adequate (to cover expenses, etc.) - often as 〜で上がる
• to be finished; to be done; to be over
• (of rain) to stop; to lift
• to stop (working properly); to cut out; to give out; to die
• to win (in a card game, etc.)
• to be arrested ［挙がる］
• to turn up (of evidence, etc.) ［挙がる］
• to be deep fried ［揚がる］
• to be spoken loudly
• to get stage fright
• to be offered (to the gods, etc.)
• to go; to visit - humble language
• to eat; to drink - honorific language
• to be listed (as a candidate) - esp. 挙がる
• to serve (in one's master's home)
• to go north - in Kyoto

suffix / godan ~る verb:

• to be complete; to finish - after the -masu stem of a verb ➜ 出来上がる

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to make; to produce; to manufacture; to build; to construct - 造る usu. for large-scale building, manufacturing, etc.; 創る usu. for creating
• to prepare (food); to brew (alcohol)
• to raise; to grow; to cultivate; to train ➜ 野菜を作る
• to till
• to draw up (a document); to make out; to prepare; to write
• to create (an artistic work, etc.); to compose
• to coin (a phrase); to organize; to organise; to establish; to found
• to have (a child)
• to make up (one's face, etc.)
• to fabricate (an excuse, etc.)
• to give a (false) appearance; to feign (a smile, etc.); to put on a show of emotion
• to form (a line, etc.)
• to set (a record)
• to commit (a sin, etc.)