noun:

• Deneb (star in the constellation Cygnus); Alpha Cygni - Astronomy term

noun:

• Achernar (star in the constellation Eridanus); Alpha Eridani - Astronomy term

noun / ~の noun:

• rounding of the lips; rounded (e.g. vowel) - Linguistics term

noun:

• place where raindrops fall from the eaves ➜ 雨落ち

noun:

• discarding the just-drawn tile ➜ 自摸【ツモ】

noun:

• bath taken after everyone else (in the family) ➜ 一番風呂

noun:

• city built according to the principles of fengshui ➜ 風水

expression:

• the virtuous man will not long remain lonely - from The Analects of Confucius - proverb

expression:

• a starved dog does not fear the rod [literal] - proverb

expression / noun / ~する noun:

• lifting (a child) high up in the air - children's language

noun:

• various kings
• unproclaimed son of the imperial family

noun:

• Reconstruction Agency (established after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake)

noun / ~する noun:

• signalling with the eyes; exchanging looks; winking - archaism ➜ 目配せ

noun:

• New World (esp. the Americas, but also Australasia) ➜ 旧大陸

noun:

• current flowing from the open sea towards land ➜ 離岸流【りがんりゅう】

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to meet (by chance); to come across; to run across; to encounter; to happen upon - 出遭う usu. has a negative connotation
• to meet (e.g. of rivers, highways, etc.) ［出会う・出合う］ - esp. 出合う
• to emerge and engage (an enemy) ［出会う・出合う］ - often used imperatively as 出会え

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to look after; to take care of; to keep; to hold on to; to keep in custody
• to be put in charge of; to be given responsibility for; to be entrusted with
• to withhold (an announcement); to reserve (judgment); to leave undecided
• to take upon oneself (to do); to settle (a matter) oneself

noun:

• statute of limitations; lapse of rights after a period of time; prescription (including acquisitive and extinctive prescription)
• becoming invalid or void after a set time
• ageing; aging - Chemistry term ➜ 時効硬化

noun:

• Buddhist revelation through intuitive discernment; Spiritual awakening cannot be experienced with words and letters; Spiritual enlightenment can be attained only by means of communion of mind with mind (Zen Buddhism) - four character idiom ➜ 不立文字

suffix / godan ~る verb:

• to do ... incessantly; to do ... hard - after the -masu stem of a verb ➜ 降りしきる

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to happen repeatedly; to happen over and over again - orig. meaning - archaism

expression:

• don't try and tell me that!; don't try that shit on me ➜ やがる

expression:

• Buddhist revelation through intuitive discernment; Spiritual awakening cannot be experienced with words and letters; Spiritual enlightenment can be attained only by means of communion of mind with mind (Zen Buddhism) - four character idiom

expression:

• once bitten twice shy; to become over cautious from a bad experience; to be bitten by a snake and thus fear a rotten rope (which resembles a snake) [literal]

~する noun / adverb / ~と adverb:

• to be careless; to be inattentive; to be absentminded; to be slow - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun / ~する noun / adverb:

• long and disheveled (e.g. hair) (dishevelled) - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• flaring up (fire); rising (e.g. steam) - onomatopoeia - archaism

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to behave like a spoiled child; to behave like a spoilt child; to fawn on - has a more negative nuance than 甘える ➜ 甘える
• to depend and presume upon another's benevolence ➜ 甘える