~の noun / adjectival noun / noun:

• at first glance poor, but on closer examination not too bad; crude but charming (of artwork, etc.); poorly made but captivating

noun:

• turning over; flipping over
• reply; response
• marks written alongside characters in a classical Chinese text to indicate their ordering when read in Japanese ➜ 返り点
• lapel

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hide; to conceal
• to lower volume (of a sound or one's voice) so as not to be heard
• to become quiet and inconspicuous

noun:

• locking the barn door after the horse has bolted; doing something too late; mending the pen after the sheep are lost [literal] - four character idiom

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to run; to hurry (when going somewhere)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to drive (a car) quickly; to ride fast (on a horse)
• to win (fame) ➜ 名をはせる

noun:

• looking up a word or kanji by its reading (rather than by its radical or stroke count)
• katakana-hiragana prolonged sound mark - colloquialism ➜ 長音符【ちょうおんぷ】

noun:

• working the corners; hitting the corners of the plate; pitcher's technique of throwing a ball aiming at the edge of the strike zone - Baseball term - From English "corner work"
• cornering skill (skating, driving, etc.)

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• not letting oneself puffed up by one's success; maintaining a serene state of mind when one has achieved a great success - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• catalpa bow; spirit bow; bow used to summon spirits, made of Japanese cherry birch, catalpa, or other wood - Shintō term

noun:

• Heian-period pastry made of duck or goose eggs mixed with vegetables boiled and wrapped in mochi which is then cut into squares

noun:

• Chinese coinage produced during the reign of the Yongle Emperor (used in Japan from the Muromachi period to the early Edo period)

adverb / ~と adverb:

• burbling - onomatopoeia
• hollow (sounding) - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / adjectival noun:

• holey; full of holes or dents; lumpy; bumpy

adjectival noun:

• viciously beating; hitting and kicking repeatedly ［ボコボコ・ぼこぼこ］ - colloquialism

adverb / ~と adverb:

• here and there ［ポコポコ・ぽこぽこ］ - onomatopoeia
• (sound of) walking slowly ［ポコポコ・ぽこぽこ］ - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~する noun:

• roughly; approximately; loosely - onomatopoeia
• cutting or breaking apart with vigour - onomatopoeia
• deeply (cut or split) - onomatopoeia
• rough (woollens, etc., as adjectival phrase with (to)shita) - onomatopoeia
• sound of treading on pebbles - onomatopoeia

noun:

• draining basket (traditionally made of bamboo); colander; strainer; sieve
• something full of holes ➜ ざる法【ざるほう】
• zaru soba - abbreviation ➜ ざる蕎麦
• strong drinker; someone who can drink like a fish - colloquialism

noun:

• painting representing reeds around water with rocks, grass or birds made using characters (Heian period)
• characters written in a way inspired from that style

noun:

• oyakodon-like dish made with something other than chicken; bowl of rice with cooked meat (esp. beef or pork) and eggs on top - Food term ➜ 親子丼

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be different and distinct; to be (relatively) distinct (when referring to items in a set) - Mathematics term ➜ 異なる

noun:

• the "three noes principle" of no drive (indolence), no interest (indifference), and no sense of responsibility (irresponsibility), the term describing the temperament of the Japanese youth of the 1970s - four character idiom

noun:

• speech used by the speaker to convey the social stature between the speaker and listener; language conveying that the speaker is of greater social status than the listener - honorific language

noun:

• probe into the truth (of the matter); dig into the real facts of the case; get at the root of a matter - four character idiom

noun:

• lucky tea (var. of tea made from sea tangle, black soybeans, pepper, pickled plums, etc. and drunk on festive occasions); New Year tea

noun:

• mountain hare (Lepus timidus); blue hare; tundra hare; variable hare; white hare; alpine hare
• hare made of snow

noun / ~の noun:

• homophony; same pronunciation; same sound - Linguistics term
• unison; same pitch - Music term
• (in) one voice; (speaking in) unison

temporal noun:

• that much; as much; to that extent; only that; that alone; no more than that; that is all (when finished speaking)

expression:

• in comparison with; when compared with; according to; in light of; in view of ➜ に照らすと