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 / adjective:

• to not understand what somebody is getting at; to not understand what is being talked about

noun / ~の noun:

• a line; a streak; a stripe; a ray (of light); a wisp (of smoke)

noun:

• one item (in an itemized form); one clause; one passage (in a book)
• one matter (affair, event, case, incident)
• the same logic; the same reason - archaism

expression / ichidan verb:

• to muster one's courage; to resolve oneself; to ready oneself for what is to come - obscure term ➜ 覚悟を決める

noun:

• way of entangling one's hands together to leave a small opening between the middle and ring fingers; fox's window [literal]

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to let things end up as they will; to let nature take its course
• to make do with what one has

noun:

• Buddhist service in which the eight scrolls of the Lotus Sutra are read one scroll at a time (one morning and one evening reading each day for four days with a different reciter each time)

noun:

• advancing and retreating; appearance and disappearance; one's daily activities; one's course of action; one's attitude - four character idiom

noun:

• a child; one child
• one of several children, especially the son and heir
• one stone (in the game of go) ➜ 一目【いちもく】

noun:

• being one in body and soul; of one flesh; two hearts beating as one - four character idiom

noun:

• one plot (of land); one block (i.e. one city block); one area; one lot
• one brush stroke; one kanji stroke

expression / noun:

• six of one, half a dozen of the other; scant difference - idiom

noun:

• price variance between domestic and overseas markets; local-foreign price difference

expression / ichidan verb:

• to already have enough; to already have what one needs - often used in turning down an offer ➜ 間に合う
• to be on time

expression / ichidan verb:

• to distinguish between; to tell the difference between

noun:

• bad example from which one can learn; good example of what not to do (esp. how not to behave); negative example - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to open up a big lead (over one's opponent)

expression:

• the difference between truth and fiction in art being very subtle; Art abides in a realm that is neither truth nor fiction - four character idiom

expression:

• people don't know themselves as well as they know others; even if you know what will happen to others, you don't know what will happen to yourself; a fortune teller can't tell their own future [literal] - proverb

expression:

• people don't know themselves as well as they know others; even if you know what will happen to others, you don't know what will happen to yourself; a fortune teller can't tell their own future [literal] - proverb

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to incur divine punishment; to pay for one's sins

interjection:

• you'll pay for that!; what goes around, comes around

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to do exactly what one is told to do; to be subservient; to be easily controlled

noun:

• length and width; length and breadth; lengthwise and crosswise; longitude and latitude; vertical and horizontal
• four cardinal points; every direction ［じゅうおう］
• as one wishes; as one pleases; at will ［じゅうおう］
• warp and weft; warp and woof ［たてよこ］ ➜ 経緯【たてよこ】

noun:

• one's second son ➜ 次男【じなん】
• man between 17 and 20 years old (ritsuryo system) - archaism ➜ 少丁

noun:

• the eight kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death, parting from loved ones, meeting disliked ones, not getting what one seeks, pains of the five skandha) - Buddhism term