noun / ~の noun:

• half the face; one side; half; the other side; the reverse; the contrary

noun:

• doing a good deed each day; doing one good turn a day - four character idiom

expression:

• the more I think about it; the more one thinks about it

adverb / ~と adverb:

• (dragging a large or heavy item) slowly - onomatopoeia
• (falling) little by little; (slipping) gradually; (drawing back) slowly; with a slither - onomatopoeia
• on and on; while putting off; slovenly; interminably - onomatopoeia
• with a slurp; with a sniffle - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun:

• loose; lax; inconclusive; unresolved - onomatopoeia

noun / ~の noun / adjectival noun:

• middle way; (golden) mean; moderation; middle path

noun:

• the Doctrine of the Mean (one of the Four Books) ➜ 四書

noun:

• plan of a house; arrangement of rooms; list of rooms in an apartment, excluding bathroom and toilet, encoded as a string of digits and letters (e.g. "2DK" for a two-room apartment with a kitchen/dining area)

expression:

• victory goes to the one who makes the first move; being quick to take action leads to victory; the early bird gets the worm - four character idiom

noun:

• child's role in noh dance; child actor (in noh)
• henchman; follower ➜ 親方

noun:

• ceremony on the fifth day of the 10th lunar month in which the emperor would watch prize archery (Heian and Kamakura periods)
• first firing of the bow (after the New Year or the reconstruction of the archery range (in military families))

noun:

• koku; traditional unit of volume, approx. 180.4 litres
• measure of a Japanese-style boat's loading capacity (approx. 278.26 liters)

noun:

• nightingale (flooring); method of laying floors to deliberately make a noise (like a nightingale's call) when walked across (security feature)

noun:

• mythical spirit residing in a person's body that generates a desire to drink (also said to turn water into alcohol) - from 'Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio', 1740

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to become; to get; to grow; to be; to reach; to attain
• to result in; to prove to be
• to consist of; to be composed of
• to succeed; to be complete
• to change into; to be exchanged for
• to play a role ➜ 成り済ます
• to be promoted - Shōgi term

godan ~る verb:

• to do ... - as お+masu-stem+になる, ご+noun+になる, etc. - honorific language

noun:

• homely woman (esp. one with a small low nose, high flat forehead, and bulging cheeks); plain woman - derogatory term ➜ お多福・ひょっとこ
• soba in soup with slices of boiled fish paste, shiitake mushrooms, greens, seaweed, etc. - abbreviation ➜ お亀蕎麦

noun:

• bath heated directly from beneath, with a floating wooden lid on which the bather sits causing it to sink (named after the robber Goemon Ishikawa, who was boiled to death in one)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to scatter; to cause a shower of
• to disperse; to distribute; to spread
• to resolve (a symptom, condition, etc.); to relieve; to get rid of; to cure
• to distract; to divert - as 気を散らす, etc. ➜ 気を散らす

suffix / godan ~す verb:

• to do ... wildly (i.e. disorderly or frequently); to do ... all over the place - after the -masu stem of a verb

noun:

• using the Chinese-reading of kanji to represent native Japanese words (irrespective of the kanji's actual meaning) ➜ 万葉仮名

noun:

• moon snail (Naticidae spp.); moon shell
• Marten's pearl oyster (Pinctada fucata martensii); Akoya pearl oyster ➜ 阿古屋貝

expression / adjectival noun:

• crumpled up (of a face; like the face of a Japanese spaniel while it's sneezing) - humorous term

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to build a market for; to promote (a product); to sell; to become well known
• to promote oneself; to sell oneself
• to sell heavily

expression:

• if you do a favor for somebody, you will get a return favor; if the water is kind to fish, the fish will be friendly toward water too [literal]; mutual back-scratching - idiom ➜ 魚心あれば水心

noun:

• head (of a household, etc.); leader; master
• owner; proprietor; proprietress
• subject (of a rumour, etc.); doer (of a deed)
• guardian spirit (e.g. long-resident beast, usu. with mystical powers); long-time resident (or employee, etc.)
• husband

pronoun:

• you - familiar language ➜ おぬし

noun / ~する noun:

• dubbing; adding a new audio (usu. voice) track to an existing video, film, etc. ➜ 吹き替え
• dubbing; re-recording existing video or audio data to a new DVD, tape, etc.

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to fall (of rain, snow, ash, etc.); to come down
• to form (of frost)
• to beam down (of sunlight or moonlight); to pour in
• to visit (of luck, misfortune, etc.); to come; to arrive

noun:

• American shrew mole (Neurotrichus gibbsii); Gibb's shrew mole; least shrew mole