expression / adjective:

• depending largely on; playing a large role in; due largely to - as ～によるところが大きい

adjective:

• bad; poor; inferior
• evil; sinful
• unprofitable; unbeneficial
• at fault; to blame; in the wrong
• sorry

noun / ~する noun:

• thoroughness; completeness; consistency
• thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception

noun:

• surname; family name
• hereditary title (used in ancient Japan to denote rank and political standing) ［せい］ ➜ 姓【かばね】

noun / ~する noun:

• admission (e.g. to a training institution, research establishment, social welfare facility, etc.); entrance
• imprisonment; internment; confinement

expression / ~の noun:

• so far; up to now; hitherto

expression:

• that's enough (for today); it ends here

suffix:

• Lord; Sir ［きょう］ - honorific language

noun:

• state minister (under the ritsuryo system) ➜ 律令制

pronoun:

• you (in reference to someone of lower status) ［けい］ - archaism - male language - honorific language

expression / adjective:

• it is not (like that); used to explicitly deny one thing while also implicitly denying other things

interjection:

• eh?; what?; oh?
• yes; that's correct ➜ はい

particle:

• strengthens a question, assertion, etc. - at sentence end - archaism ➜ かえ・ぞえ・わえ
• used when calling out to someone - after a noun, etc. - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• preventing (someone) from leaving; confinement; keeping indoors; inducement to stay
• being stranded; grounding
• level dyeing ［足留め・足留］

adverb:

• sound of heavy breathing - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• blowing on something (e.g. to cool it down)

noun:

• country's official writing system; native script
• kana ➜ 仮名【かな】
• kanji that originated in Japan (as opposed to China) ➜ 漢字

noun:

• starting afresh; going back to square one; abandoning (e.g. a plan); calling off ➜ ご破算
• clearing an abacus - orig. meaning ➜ ご破算

noun:

• infectious disease which by law a physician must report to the authorities within 24 hours of diagnosis

noun:

• surface rights (i.e. the right to build a house, etc. on land owned by another); superficies

noun / ~する noun:

• rising and going to bed; daily life

adverb:

• all the time; constantly; whether awake or asleep

noun:

• the hard way; striving for enlightenment through one's own efforts (as opposed to reliance on Amitabha) - Buddhism term ➜ 易行道

noun:

• player put on starting list to be replaced by another when the opponent's pitcher is known

noun:

• modal shift (esp. changes in freight transport, e.g. from air to sea)

noun:

• red sea bream (i.e. the tai, Pagrus major) - colloquialism
• fish given to a tournament winner as congratulations - Sumo, Food term

noun:

• being tough on the outside but soft at heart; a faint-hearted person pretending to be brave - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• biding one's time building up strength till finally grasping an opportunity to launch out and flourish - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• killing oneself by jumping (e.g. from a tall building); plunging to one's death

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to blindstitch the inside of a fold with (equally spaced) threadings (i.e. pulling shoe lacing tight)

noun:

• var. of knot often used to tie mizu-hiki
• woman's hairstyle, braided in this fashion