noun:

• being carried away by a current
• drowning in a river; person who drowned in a river
• cancellation; standing up; breaking a promise

noun:

• palace room for government officials or ladies in waiting
• room inside a palace or private estate allocated to employees; person living in such a room
• boarding house for trainee administrators (Ritsuryo period) ➜ 大学寮

noun:

• very superior old pale (cognac); VSOP
• one-track mind; person who always acts the same or says the same thing (esp. person who always cracks the same kind of jokes) - humorous term - From English "very special one pattern" ➜ ワンパターン
• VLBI Space Observatory Programme; Very Long Baseline Interferometry Space Observatory Programme ➜ 超長距離干渉計【ちょうちょうきょりかんしょうけい】

noun / ~の noun:

• uninhabited area ［じんがい］
• acting inhumanly; inhuman person
• nonhuman life (usu. sentient) ［じんがい］ - slang

adverb:

• closely; intimately ➜ 親しい【したしい】
• personally; in person - referring to someone of higher status
• directly (experience); at first-hand

noun:

• right arm ➜ 左腕
• right-hand man; right hand; right-hand person ［みぎうで］
• right-handed pitcher ［うわん］ - Baseball term

noun:

• losing initiative; being forestalled ➜ 先手【せんて】
• second move (in go or shogi); moving second; person with the second move
• rear guard ➜ 後詰め

noun:

• control tower; conning tower
• leader; commander; person calling the shots
• playmaker; game maker - Sports term

noun:

• Heian-period student of government administration - archaism
• Buddhist scholar; researcher at a Buddhist temple; person studying Buddhism - archaism
• learning; scholarship - archaism

~の noun / adjectival noun / noun:

• unrelated; irrelevant; indifferent Antonym: 有縁

~の noun / noun:

• without relations (esp. of a deceased person); having no surviving relatives
• unrelated to the teachings of Buddha; unable to be saved by Buddha - Buddhism term Antonym: 有縁

noun:

• transfer; switching over; change
• money transfer (usu. between accounts held by the same person)
• postal transfer - abbreviation ➜ 郵便振替

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to compete; to vie; to contend
• to make fight against another (person, animal); to pit against; to set against
• to debate; to argue

pronoun:

• I; me - archaism

noun:

• (person having) thin or shaved eyebrows

suffix:

• affectionate suffix for names of young men or pets - also 丸

noun:

• presence (of a nobleman, the emperor, etc.) ➜ おまえ
• outrider (person riding horseback in the lead position of a cavalcade) ➜ 前駆

noun / suffix noun:

• My Lord; My Lady

pre-noun adjectival:

• the usual; as it always is
• said; that (previously-mentioned person or object); aforementioned; you-know-(who, what, etc.)

adverb:

• in the usual way - archaism

godan ~す verb:

• to exhaust; to run out
• to devote; to serve (a person); to befriend

auxiliary verb:

• to do to exhaustion

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to select; to choose
• to diagnose (an illness); to judge
• to liken to something else; to regard as something else (e.g. to use another person as a mirror)
• to see someone off
• to look after; to be (someone's) guardian
• to underrate; to look down on; to underestimate (someone)

noun:

• upper reaches (of a river); upper stream Antonym: 下【しも】
• top; upper part; upper half (of the body)
• long ago
• beginning; first
• person of high rank (e.g. the emperor) - honorific language ➜ 御上
• government; imperial court
• imperial capital (i.e. Kyoto); capital region (i.e. Kansai); region (or direction of) the imperial palace ➜ 上方【かみがた】
• head (of a table)
• wife; mistress (of a restaurant) - honorific language

noun:

• millionaire ［ちょうじゃ］
• one's superior; one's elder; one's senior
• virtuous and gentle person - archaism
• female owner of a whorehouse in a post town ［ちょうじゃ］ - archaism
• chief of a post town ［ちょうじゃ］ - archaism ➜ 宿駅

noun:

• eldest son - archaism ➜ 長男
• older brother; older sister - archaism
• older person - archaism
• head of a clan; head of a region - archaism ➜ 氏上
• skilled craftsman - archaism

noun / suffix noun:

• coming out; going out; outflow; efflux; rising (of the sun or moon)
• attending (work); appearing (on stage); one's turn to go on
• start; beginning
• origins; background; person (or item) originating from ...; graduate of ...; native of ...; member of ... (lineage)
• architectural member that projects outward
• highest point of the stern of a ship
• amount (comprising something); amount of time or effort required to do something - usu. after the -masu stem of a verb as 〜出がある or 〜出がない, etc. - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• master (of a house, shop, etc.)
• husband (informal)
• sir; boss; master; governor; word used to address a male patron, customer, or person of high status
• patron of a mistress, geisha, bar or nightclub hostess; sugar daddy ➜ パトロン
• alms; almsgiving; almsgiver - orig. meaning; usu. written as 檀那 - Buddhism term - From Sanskrit "dāna" ➜ 檀越・檀家

noun:

• near; close; beside; vicinity; proximity; besides; while
• third person ［はた］

pronoun:

• that way (direction distant from both speaker and listener); over there; yonder ➜ 何方【どちら】・此方【こちら】・其方
• that one (something physically distant from both speaker and listener, or something not visible but known by both speaker and listener); that
• that person (someone physically distant from both speaker and listener, or someone not present but known by both speaker and listener) - あちら is pol.
• there (place distant from both speaker and listener); over there; foreign country (esp. a Western nation)

noun:

• muscle; tendon; sinew
• vein; artery
• fiber; fibre; string
• line; stripe; streak
• reason; logic ➜ 筋が通る
• plot; storyline
• lineage; descent
• school (e.g. of scholarship or arts)
• aptitude; talent
• source (of information, etc.); circle; channel
• well-informed person (in a transaction)
• logical move (in go, shogi, etc.)
• ninth vertical line - Shōgi term
• seam on a helmet
• gristly fish paste (made of muscle, tendons, skin, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ 筋蒲鉾
• social position; status - archaism

suffix noun / noun / ~の noun:

• on (a river, road, etc.); along

suffix / counter:

• counter for long thin things; counter for roads or blocks when giving directions
• (Edo period) counter for hundreds of mon (obsolete unit of currency) - archaism