expression:

• a bit more; a bit longer ➜ もう少し

expression / ichidan verb:

• to break off with (e.g. one's lover) - idiom
• to be sharp enough to cut one's skin (of a new banknote, etc.)

noun:

• head
• hair (on one's head)
• mind; brains; intellect ［あたま］
• leader; chief; boss; captain
• top; tip
• beginning; start
• head; person ［あたま］
• top structural component of a kanji ［かしら］
• pair ［あたま］ - colloquialism - Mahjong term ➜ 雀頭【ジャントー】

noun:

• offering to a deity or somebody's spirit
• tribute to a person who is about to depart

noun:

• dog-ear (of a book)
• dog's ear

noun / ~する noun:

• opening a hall for that day's business (museum, library, etc.)
• opening of new hall (museum, etc.)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be wide-ranging; to be diverse; to cover a lot of ground; to cover various topics

noun:

• door-to-door manzai; form of comedy orig. performed at people's homes by entertainers during the New Year festivities; precursor to modern day manzai ➜ 漫才

expression / adverb:

• as time goes by; as time went by; with the passage of time; over time

noun:

• suicide immediately after the death of one's spouse or lover; following one's lover (husband, wife) into death

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to be profoundly compatible; to be inseparable; to be so close as to reveal to each other the bottom of one's heart

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to smell; to smell of; to have a smell

godan ~つ verb / transitive:

• to cut loose; to let loose; to cut off; to detach; to dismember; to cut in two
• to separate in thought; to consider as independent

adverb / ~と adverb:

• sound of something striking repeatedly (e.g. wooden clappers) - onomatopoeia
• something small hopping repeatedly; touching lightly and repeatedly - onomatopoeia

noun:

• punctuation marks such as the dakuten
• Chonchon; South American mythical bird - From

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to try and reach above one's station and fail; to try and accomplish something beyond one's abilities and fail; a monkey tries to catch the moon (and drowns) [literal] - idiom ➜ 猿猴捉月

expression / ichidan verb:

• to harmonize with; to keep in tune with
• to go along with; to keep in step

godan ~ぐ verb / transitive:

• to pour (into a vessel); to fill (a cup, bowl, etc.) with; to dish out (food or drink)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to leak out (a secret); to be exposed (a lie, improper behaviour, etc.) (behavior)
• to get away (fish)

noun:

• chuff-chuff (sound of a steam engine); choo-choo; chug-chug; puff-puff - colloquialism - onomatopoeia ➜ 汽車ポッポ【きしゃポッポ】・ぽっぽ

expression:

• the die is cast; there is no going back; point of no return; alea iacta est; alea jacta est

noun:

• higan cherry (species of weeping cherry tree, Prunus subhirtella); early-flowering cherry (around the spring equinox) ➜ 江戸彼岸
• double weeping rosebud cherry (Prunus pendula) - colloquialism ➜ 江戸彼岸

expression:

• the poor can't afford manners; only when basic needs for living are met can people spare the effort to be polite - proverb

adverb / ~の noun:

• for a while; for some time; for a period

noun:

• prefatory sutra - Buddhism term
• opening a sutra; beginning to read a sutra

expression / adjective:

• not funny; not a laughing matter; not a joke