godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to look through
• to hold up to the light
• to make an opening; to leave space; to space (lines); to prune (trees)
• to fart without making a sound

noun / ~する noun:

• cleaning up or covering for another; bearing the consequences of someone else's error; paying a debt for someone; wiping another's buttocks [literal]

noun:

• solar pond (salty pond in which energy from solar energy accumulates in the lower layers, due to lack of convection)

expression:

• if you visit the toilet while travelling, you will get behind your fellow travelers; one chou for a piss, one ri for a shit [literal] - archaism - proverb ➜ 里【り】・町

noun:

• gold driver's license; driver's license awarded to drivers who haven't been in an accident in the past 5 years

noun / ~する noun:

• not giving up; keeping at it until one succeeds; falling seven times, getting up eight times [literal] - idiom

noun:

• the vicissitudes of life; ups and downs in life - idiom

expression / noun:

• completely empty (of a residence, etc.); vacant; deserted ➜ 蛻【もぬけ】
• body from which the soul has left; corpse
• shed skin (of a snake, insect, etc.) - orig. meaning

noun:

• PASMO (rechargeable prepaid IC card that can be used as a train and bus ticket in the greater Tokyo region and also as electric money in some stores) ➜ スイカ

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to play dumb; to feign ignorance; to play innocent; to have a blank facial expression
• to play the fool
• to be in one's dotage

~の noun / noun:

• totally at a loss; lose one's bearings; in a maze; in a fog; all at sea; up in the air; mystified; bewildered - four character idiom

noun:

• public opinion; public eye; (in) the eyes of others
• discerning eye; an eye (for sth)
• perspective; way of looking at things; point of view

pronoun:

• what

prefix:

• how many ［なん］ - followed by a counter ➜ 何か月
• large number of; many ［なん］ - followed by (optional number), counter and も ➜ 何度も・何日も

noun:

• you-know-what; that

expression:

• whatsit; what's the expression; what do you call them

interjection:

• what? - expressing surprise
• hey! - expressing anger or irritability

godan -いく／-ゆく verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to flee; to take flight
• to be ruined; to go down in the world
• to settle down (e.g. in one location)

expression / ~する verb (spec.):

• to qualify (as); to have the qualifications (for ...); to be entitled to; to have a claim (for)

interjection / noun:

• crying "banzai" (or raising one's hands in the banzai gesture)
• something worthy of celebration
• giving up ［ばんざい］
• long time - archaism
• eternal life (and prosperity) - archaism

interjection:

• banzai (a celebratory cheer); hurrah (hooray, hurray)

godan ~つ verb / transitive:

• to have two things (at the same time) (e.g. good and bad points); to also have something (in addition to something else)

noun / ~する noun:

• eating with one's fingers
• snitching food; snatched food; secret eating; food snatched and eaten without the meal starting
• embezzlement; misappropriation; exploiting something
• flirting

noun:

• manager; steward; factotum; person next in rank to the chief retainers and in charge of general management and accounting in a samurai family (Edo period) ➜ 御用人
• useful person

noun / ~する noun:

• profit; gains
• benefit; advantage; interest (of the public, etc.)
• grace (of God, Buddha, etc.) (esp. as attained through rightful actions, prayer, adherence to one's faith, etc.); blessing; miracle ［りやく］

noun:

• China ［ちゅうごく］ ➜ 中華人民共和国
• Chūgoku region of western Honshu (incl. Okayama, Hiroshima, Shimane, Tottori and Yamaguchi prefectures) ［ちゅうごく］ - abbreviation ➜ 中国地方
• central part of a country; main region ［ちゅうごく］
• province of the second lowest rank (ritsuryo system)

noun:

• flounder (esp. the large-tooth flounders of family Paralichthyidae, but also lefteye flounders of family Bothidae)
• bastard halibut; olive flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus)

expression:

• metaphor in which the road to paradise is likened to a white road between two rivers, one of water (wrath) and one of fire (greed) - Buddhism term

noun:

• humble language in which an action or object is not directed toward the listener (or a third party); humble language used as a courtesy ➜ 謙譲語Ｉ

noun:

• S; s
• south - abbreviation
• sulfur - abbreviation ➜ 硫黄

prefix:

• nth year in the Shōwa era (1926.12.25-1989.1.7) - abbreviation ➜ 昭和

noun:

• small - abbreviation
• second - abbreviation
• subject (grammar) - abbreviation ➜ 主語
• sadist; sadistic - abbreviation Antonym: Ｍ
• sister; female partner in a homosexual relationship - abbreviation

noun:

• scarlet kadsura (Kadsura japonica) ➜ 実葛【さねかずら】
• white sash tied around the head, with ends hanging down and tucked into belt, worn in kyogen to indicate a female character being played by a man