noun:

• in calligraphy, a stroke going from upper right to lower left with a pointed tail

noun:

• man only used to receive meals from; man who always pays for food - slang ➜ ミツグ君

noun:

• West African spadefish (Chaetodipterus lippei, species of Eastern Atlantic spadefish found from Senegal to Angola)

noun:

• hairstyle for men and women from early Edo era to the Genroku era

noun:

• multiple people holding the same item with their chopsticks
• passing something from chopstick to chopstick

expression / noun:

• the Four Freedoms (as defined by Franklin D. Roosevelt: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to move; to shift; to stir; to budge; to change position
• to inspire; to rouse; to move (e.g. feeling); to influence
• to change; to alter; to deny
• to operate; to set in motion; to get going
• to mobilize (e.g. troops); to mobilise; to deploy
• to manage (e.g. funds)

noun / ~する noun:

• mounting (animal behaviour)
• putting somebody down (esp. in an underhanded way) in an attempt to appear superior; putting somebody in their place

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to call; to invite; to send for; to summon - honorific language
• to eat; to drink
• to put on; to wear
• to ride
• to catch (a cold); to take (a bath); to tickle (one's fancy); to put on (years); to commit (seppuku)
• to do ➜ 召される
• used to show respect - used after the -masu stem of a verb - honorific language - archaism

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to add; to add up; to sum up; to append; to annex
• to increase; to gather (e.g. speed); to pick up
• to include; to count in; to let join
• to inflict (damage); to deal; to give

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to deceive; to falsify; to misrepresent; to cheat; to swindle; to tamper; to juggle; to manipulate
• to dodge; to beg the question (issue, difficulties)
• to varnish over; to gloss over

noun:

• integrated set of schools that offers education from one stage to the next without taking entrance exams en route

noun:

• squarenose unicornfish (Naso mcdadei, species of Indo-West Pacific tang found from East Africa to the Great Barrier Reef)

noun:

• three-pronged vajra flung by Kukai on his return from China to determine the Holy Land of Esoteric Buddism - Buddhism term

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to adhere to; to stick to; to cling to
• to keep close to; to go along with
• to get involved with; to be thick with; to become intimate

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to torment; to pain; to inflict (physical) pain; to hurt
• to harass; to cause (emotional) pain; to afflict; to distress; to bother; to trouble; to stump; to baffle

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to pierce; to stab; to prick; to stick; to thrust
• to sting; to bite ➜ 螫す
• to sew; to stitch; to embroider
• to pole (a boat) ➜ 差す
• to catch (with a limed pole)
• to put (a runner) out; to pick off - Baseball term

noun / ~する noun:

• sideslip; skid; sliding sideways
• shifting to another post (at the same level); sideways move (at a company)
• sliding sideways down a slope (skiing)

noun:

• slicing a fish down its back
• slit in the back of a garment
• split in a piece of lumber (to prevent splitting when drying)

noun / ~する noun:

• going home from kindergarten; coming home from kindergarten

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to talk; to speak; to converse; to chat
• to tell; to explain; to narrate; to mention; to describe; to discuss
• to speak (a language)

noun:

• ginjō sake; high-quality sake brewed by low temperature fermentation from white rice milled to 60%

noun:

• glossy silk thread (made from raw silk treated in a solution to dissolve the sericin)

expression:

• even the hunter will refrain from killing the bird that has flown to him for shelter - proverb

expression:

• even the hunter will refrain from killing the bird that has flown to him for shelter - proverb