noun:

• palace examination (national Chinese civil servant examination based largely on classic literature); someone who has passed this examination ➜ 科挙
• examination for promotion in the Ministry of Ceremonies (based largely on political duties and Chinese classics); someone who has passed this examination ➜ 式部省

~の noun / adjectival noun / noun / adverbial noun:

• a lot; lots; plenty; many; a large number; much; a great deal; a good deal
• enough; sufficient

suffix noun:

• enough; too many; too much - after a noun; usu. read as だくさん ➜ 沢山【だくさん】

noun:

• a kick; mounting a bar with a kick

adjectival noun / noun:

• upper part

noun:

• upper stream; upper course of a river ［かみて］
• right side of the stage (audience's or camera's POV); stage left (actor's POV) ［かみて］

adjectival noun / noun:

• skillful (only in comparisons); dexterity (only in comparisons) ［うわて］

noun:

• over-arm grip on opponent's belt ［うわて］ - Sumo term

noun:

• New Year's ceremony in which a hoe is used to break ground in a field lying in a lucky direction ➜ 鍬入れ

noun:

• lucky-number request (the person who is the Nth visitor to a web site gets to make a request, e.g. for a custom drawing, where N is a special number like 10000) - from キリ番 and リクエスト - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ キリ番・リクエスト

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hang (a curtain); to droop (a tail); to lower (a blind)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to select; to choose
• to diagnose (an illness); to judge
• to liken to something else; to regard as something else (e.g. to use another person as a mirror)
• to see someone off
• to look after; to be (someone's) guardian
• to underrate; to look down on; to underestimate (someone)

noun / ~する noun:

• cutting a thin object (e.g. vegetable stalk) at a 45 degree angle; cutting in a way that blunts or rounds the cut ➜ 削ぐ

expression:

• a wholesome household can not be disturbed from the outside; a house divided against itself cannot stand; a firm fence keeps the dogs out [literal] - proverb

noun:

• moon-viewing on either the night of the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunisolar calendar or on the night of the 13th day of the 9th month of the lunisolar calendar, but not both nights

noun:

• sunken kotatsu; low table over a hole in the floor (may have a heat source underneath and a hanging quilt to retain warmth) ➜ 炬燵

noun:

• going through a cave, grass ring or the interior of a large Buddhistic statue, etc. (symbolizing rebirth)
• narrow grotto (into which a person can barely fit)

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to embrace; to hold in the arms (e.g. a baby); to hug
• to harbour (e.g. grudge); to harbor; to bear; to have (e.g. ambition); to entertain (e.g. hope, suspicion) ［いだく］

godan ~く verb:

• to have sex with; to make love to; to sleep with ［だく］
• to sit on eggs ［だく］

expression:

• a thorn in one's side; a pain in the butt (often someone higher in rank, ability, etc.); a person standing in one's way; a superior who obstructs one's freedom of action ➜ 目の上のこぶ

noun:

• head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); proprietress; landlord; landlady; master (of a servant) - abbreviation
• entertaining someone as one's guest - also written as 饗 - archaism ➜ 饗設け

expression / ichidan verb:

• to penetrate a body (e.g. with a spear or bullet)
• to breathe new life into; to provide a potential solution

adverb / ~する noun:

• for a moment; for a minute

adverb:

• for a while; for some time
• for the time being; for now

interjection:

• it's been a long time; long time no see

noun:

• foot of a mountain; base of a mountain ➜ 山下【さんか】
• mine; colliery - esp. 山元
• owner of a mountain; operator of a mine - esp. 山元

noun:

• transferring a shintai in a portable shrine, e.g. to another shrine or to a ceremony - Shintō term ➜ 神体

expression:

• towards (a destination); for the purpose of; with the goal of; targeting (a group, a demographic) ➜ 向ける

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to handle (men); to master (a tool); to manage; to acquire a command of (a language)

noun / ~する noun:

• taking command of a corps in a battle; command exercised by the leader of a group - four character idiom

noun:

• touching a wrong card
• making a mistress of a servant; mistress (who is one's servant)

noun / ~する noun:

• praying for the coming of a deity
• ceremonial transfer of a divided tutelary deity to a new location ➜ 分霊