noun / ~の noun:

• taking care of one's responsibilities by oneself; one's own efforts; one's own expense
• going into business for oneself (selling one's own products); entrepreneur of such a business

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to look at; to gaze at; to watch; to stare at
• to look out over; to get a view of; to admire (e.g. the scenery)
• to look on (from the sidelines); to stand by and watch; to observe

expression / adjectival noun:

• woman's word for the sound of feet thumping across a noh theatre; space of noh theatre based on the reach of the sound of feet thumping - female language

noun:

• having only tiles of one suit and not having called any tiles (yaku); having only tiles of one suit and a concealed hand - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ メンゼン・清一色

noun / ~する noun:

• fixing (in place); securing; anchoring; fastening down
• fixing (e.g. salary, capital); keeping the same
• fixation (histology) - Biology term

noun:

• user name (on an online forum like 2ch where the majority of users post anonymously) - slang - abbreviation ➜ 固定ハンドル
• user who uses a online handle (instead of posting anonymously) - slang - abbreviation ➜ 固定ハンドル

expression:

• There's no point in staying (here) any longer; There's no point in prolonging a (the) visit; There's no point in extending one's stay - four character idiom

noun:

• bill; bill of sale; payment invoice
• tab (for later payment); credit
• contact move (in go); direct attack to an enemy stone - usually written using kana alone
• sound effect produced by striking with clappers a wooden board in kabuki - usually written using kana alone
• letter - archaism
• reason; motive; pretext - archaism
• one's fortune; one's luck - archaism

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to go to the top; to climb to the top; to ascend to the top; to reach the summit (e.g. of a mountain)
• to be engrossed in; to be very enthusiastic about; to be infatuated with

noun:

• court ladies of the middle rank serving in the inner palace (Heian period)
• female servant for a samurai family
• lady-in-waiting working in the inner palace of the Edo castle (Edo period)

expression:

• fortune and misfortune are intertwined; fortune and misfortune come by turns; good luck and bad luck alternate (like the strands of a rope); good and bad fortune are next-door neighbours

noun:

• reeling by hand (esp. silk); hand filature ［座繰り・坐繰り・座繰・坐繰］

noun / ~する noun:

• counter sinking (making conical depression so screw-heads don't protrude above surface); spot facing (machining a flat space for bolt head, etc.); spotfacing - esp. 座ぐり

noun:

• hollowing out (e.g. wooden chair seat, scallop pattern on roof, etc.) - esp. 座刳り

noun:

• processing trade (importing all or part of raw and auxiliary materials, parts, components, accessories, and packaging materials in bond from a foreign company, and re-exporting the finished products after processing or assembly for distribution and sale by that foreign company)

noun:

• any of a number of lists of three enlightened men, including (but not limited to): Buddha, Confucius and Christ
• Lao-tzu, Confucius and Buddha
• Fu Xi, King Wen and Confucius
• Yao, Shun and Yu
• Yu, the Duke of Zhou, Confucius

noun:

• one sheet; one page; one leaf
• one block of tofu; one serving (in a restaurant)
• one long and narrow thing (e.g. guns, scissors, spades, hoes, inksticks, palanquins, candles, jinrikishas, shamisen, oars, etc.) - also written as 一挺, 一梃
• one cho (unit of distance, 109.09 m)
• one game; one task

adverbial noun:

• well then; come then

noun:

• bedding; bed - archaism ➜ 枕席

noun / ~する noun:

• to sleep together in the same bed - archaism
• to sleep together using each other's bodies as pillow - archaism
• to sleep together using books as a pillow - archaism

noun:

• side dish; okazu; side dish (meat, fish, pickles, etc.) accompanying the rice in a typical Japanese meal
• food for thought (esp. in the context of conversation, or material for assisting arousal during masturbation) ［おかず・オカズ］ - sometimes オガズ
• fill; fill-in (drumming)

expression:

• like chalk and cheese (superficially similar, but completely different) (the moon and a turtle shell are both round, but they are otherwise completely different); like day and night; like the difference between heaven and hell

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to favor; to favour; to show favor to; to show favour to; to be partial to; to be a regular customer of

ichidan verb / intransitive verb / transitive:

• to come off; to be removed
• (of pain, a fever, etc.) to disappear
• to be caught; to be harvested ➜ 獲れる・捕れる
• to be interpreted (as); to be taken as
• (of balance, etc.) to be attained
• to be obtainable - potential form of 取る ➜ 取る

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to make good one's escape; to escape to a safe place; to make one's getaway; to effect one's escape

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to crush to death; to stifle to death; to squeeze to death
• to stifle (a laugh, etc.); to muffle (one's breathing); to subdue (one's voice); to conceal (e.g. one's emotions)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be due to; to be caused by - esp. 依る;拠る
• to depend on; to turn on - esp. 依る
• to be based on; to come from - esp. 因る;由る
• to be based at (a location, an organization); to be headquartered at - esp. 拠る

godan ~す verb:

• to cross over (e.g. mountain); to go across
• to go over (e.g. with audience)
• to pass time (e.g. a winter)
• to surpass; to be better than; to exceed - often 超す
• to move house
• to go; to come - honorific language ➜ お越し

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to smoke; to smoulder; to smolder; to sputter
• to be sooty; to be smoke-stained ［くすぶる・ふすぶる］
• to smoulder (e.g. a dispute); to smolder ［くすぶる］
• to seclude oneself ［くすぶる・ふすぶる］
• to live in obscurity; to stay in the same level (of social position, circumstances, etc.) ［くすぶる］

noun / ~の noun:

• flowers in full bloom; time of year in which flowers are in full bloom
• the age at which someone (esp. a woman) is at the peak of their beauty
• booming or peaking (in popularity)