noun:

• red poetry ribbon card (in hanafuda) ➜ 花札
• the three red poetry ribbon cards (high-scoring combination in hanafuda)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to cast amorous glances at a man (of a woman); to make eyes at; to give (someone) the eye; to make advances

godan ~く verb / yodan ~く verb (archaic):

• to brim over with feminine charm; to look captivating (of a woman); to be sexy; to be seductive; to be enticing
• to look young and fresh
• to be elegant; to look refined
• to have a calm and composed appearance

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be sufficient; to be enough
• to be worth doing; to be worthy of; to deserve - in the form に足りる after a verb ➜ 取るに足りない
• to do (the job); to serve; to answer

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be sufficient; to be enough ➜ 足りる
• to be worth doing; to be worthy of; to deserve - in the form に足る after a verb
• to do (the job); to serve; to answer

expression:

• to get a tiny share of the profits; to get a small share of what someone is enjoying

noun:

• the rounds of tradesmen going door to door
• route man; door-to-door tradesman; order taker; order-taking
• thief taker; secret policeman ➜ 岡っ引き

noun:

• six-three system of education (six years of elementary school, followed by three years of junior high school)

noun:

• one who is obsessed with (getting into, holding on to) political power; one who is obsessed with the idea of taking over government - four character idiom

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to draw an arc (e.g. with a compass); to describe an arc (e.g. through the air)

noun:

• blue poetry ribbon card (in hanafuda)
• the three blue poetry ribbon cards (high-scoring combination in hanafuda) ➜ 花札

noun:

• natural disaster reduction; reduction of the effects of a natural disaster

noun:

• Amitabha (Buddha); Amida - Buddhism term
• ghostleg lottery; ladder lottery; lottery in which participants trace a line across a lattice pattern to determine the winner - abbreviation ➜ 阿弥陀籤【あみだくじ】
• wearing a hat pushed back on one's head - abbreviation ➜ 阿弥陀被り【あみだかぶり】

noun:

• private school that allows students to advance from one stage of education to the next, often kindergarten to university, without taking entrance exams en route; "escalator school" - colloquialism ➜ エスカレーター学校

noun:

• private school that allows students to advance from one stage of education to the next, often kindergarten to university, without taking entrance exams en route; escalator school [literal] - colloquialism ➜ エスカレーター校

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:

• determined purpose
• an incredibly short span of time (i.e. the time occupied by a single thought) - Buddhism term
• a single repetition of a prayer (esp. in Jodo-shu) - Buddhism term ➜ 浄土宗

noun:

• impoverishment of fishermen because of a bumper catch; decline in fishermen's income caused by the sharply lower fish prices as a result of an overabundant catch - four character idiom

expression / prefix:

• to allow oneself to ...; to take the liberty of ... - with noun+する or noun+をverb

expression:

• it is presumed that; (I, we) presume that
• on one's own accord; by one's arbitrary decision ➜ 勝手に

noun:

• four-color theorem (colour) (theorem stating that any map can be colored such that no two adjacent segments have the same color, if only four colors are used)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to kill an enemy soldier before the start of a battle to raise spirits
• to kill viciously
• to victimize; to torment; to lay into; to give (someone) hell; to vilify

noun:

• change (for a purchase) - polite language ➜ 釣り

noun / ~する noun:

• interview (e.g. for a job)

adjective:

• good-for-nothing; stupid; trivial; worthless

expression:

• hence; for that reason