godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to wriggle; to squirm; to crawl like a worm

noun:

• ritual music and dancing in shrines and temples
• rice dance; rice festival
• tofu (or fish, etc.) baked and coated with miso - abbreviation - Food term ➜ 田楽焼き
• turning something in the manner one would use to cook dengaku-doufu on both sides - abbreviation ➜ 田楽返し

expression:

• every man knows his own business best; one should go to specialists for the best results; for rice cakes, (go to) the rice cake shop [literal] - proverb ➜ 餠

noun:

• protecting a rice field; watching over a field; person who watches over a rice field

expression:

• first come, first served; the early bird catches the worm

noun:

• sea snake
• worm eel (Ophichthidae spp.); snake eel

noun:

• bloodworm (Halla okadai, species of eunicid worm used as fishing bait) ➜ 揺蚊
• red mite (Trombicula akamushi); chigger mite; harvest mite ➜ 恙虫

noun:

• blind snake (esp. the Brahminy blind snake, Ramphotyphlops braminus); worm snake

expression:

• fools rush in - abbreviation ➜ 盲蛇に怖じず

noun:

• eating the first meal of soft rice (himeii) after the traditional hard rice of New Year (kowaii) ➜ 強飯・姫飯
• first intercourse of the New Year
• loss of virginity; loss of maidenhead - slang

noun:

• roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides); mawworm; intestinal worm
• (metaphor for) location of one's feelings or sentiments ➜ 腹の虫が治まらない【はらのむしがおさまらない】
• (metaphor for) empty stomach; feeling of hunger ➜ 腹の虫が鳴る【はらのむしがなる】

~の noun:

• worm-eaten; moth-eaten

noun:

• holes eaten in clothing, leaves, etc. by caterpillars, moths, etc.
• leaf warbler (any bird of genus Phylloscopus); chiffchaff; willow wren - usually written using kana alone

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:

• rice

noun:

• rice

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to be worm-eaten; to be eaten by worms
• to affect adversely; to spoil; to ruin; to undermine; to gnaw at (one's heart, body, etc.); to eat into; to destroy

expression:

• tread on a worm and it will turn; even a tiny bug will defend itself; even the weakest and smallest beings have their own wills, so do not make light of them - proverb

noun:

• rice field

noun:

• rice price

noun:

• rice cooker

noun:

• cooked rice

noun:

• foreign rice

noun:

• (white) rice

noun:

• old rice Antonym: 新米

noun:

• rice crop

noun:

• rice production