noun:

• defeat; loss; losing (a game)

suffix:

• failing to live up to (one's name, looks, etc.) ➜ 名前負け【なまえまけ】

noun:

• discount; loss (on a sale)

noun:

• bitch; witch; ugly woman; dog - derogatory term - From Portuguese "espada"
• normal card; card having only a floral pattern that gives a player only one point - orig. meaning, referring to the card suit "spades" ➜ 花札

noun / ~する noun:

• holding a castle (during a siege); holing up
• confinement (to one's home); staying at home; staying indoors

godan ~つ verb / transitive:

• to hit (a person); to strike; to beat
• to deliver (a speech); to give (an address)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to apply (a rule); to be applicable; to come under (a category); to fulfill; to hold true

noun:

• metallic foil cut into strips or other shapes to form decorative motifs ➜ 切り金
• cutting a thin sheet of metal into shapes and affixing it with lacquer forming natural features (e.g. clouds) ➜ 切り金

noun:

• road; path; street; route - abbreviation ➜ 道【みち】
• way; set of practices; rules for conducting oneself ➜ 道【みち】
• Buddhist teachings
• Taoism
• modern administrative region of Japan (Hokkaido)
• historical administrative region of Japan (Tokaido, Tosando, etc.)
• province (Tang-era administrative region of China)
• province (modern administrative region of Korea)

noun:

• hand; arm - occ. pronounced た when a prefix ➜ お手【おて】
• forepaw; foreleg - colloquialism ➜ お手【おて】
• handle
• hand; worker; help
• trouble; care; effort
• means; way; trick; move; technique; workmanship
• hand; handwriting
• kind; type; sort
• one's hands; one's possession ➜ 手に入る
• ability to cope ➜ 手に余る
• hand (of cards)
• direction ➜ 山の手

noun / suffix noun / counter:

• move (in go, shogi, etc.)

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to open (e.g. doors) - esp. 開く
• to open (e.g. business, etc.) - esp. 開く
• to be empty - esp. 空く
• to be vacant; to be available; to be free - esp. 空く
• to be open (e.g. neckline, etc.) - esp. 明く
• to have been opened (of one's eyes, mouth, etc.) - esp. 明く
• to come to an end - esp. 明く

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to open (one's eyes, mouth, etc.) - esp. 明く

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to have a hole; to form a gap; to have an interval (between events) ➜ 穴が開く

noun:

• one's own ground; one's own position; one's own area of the field (soccer, rugby, etc.)

noun:

• tenmoku; ceramics (esp. tea bowls) with a dark glaze that resembles oil spotting
• tenmoku tea-bowl; dark-glazed conical tea-bowl of Chinese origin - abbreviation ➜ 天目茶碗

noun:

• side out (e.g. volleyball); side-out; gaining the right to serve - Sports term
• ball going over the sideline (tennis) - Sports term

adverb:

• now (after such a long time); at this late hour (i.e. it is too late for something); at this point of time
• afresh; anew; again

noun:

• hanger-on; dependent
• someone who is received coldly
• third, fourth, fifth, etc. sons (during the Edo period when only the oldest male could inherit an estate) - familiar language

noun:

• grandchild of Amaterasu (i.e. Ninigi no Mikoto) - archaism
• descendant of Amaterasu; person of imperial lineage; emperor

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to miss one's footing
• to be off the right track; to be on the wrong path

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to sweep the slate clean; to start again from the beginning; to do it all over again

expression:

• what the hell; what the fuck; what are you going on about; you've got to be kidding - Kansai dialect

noun / suffix noun:

• seat; place; position
• status
• gathering; group
• stand; pedestal; platform
• (historical) trade guild

suffix:

• attaches to the names of theatres, theatrical troupes, and constellations

suffix / counter:

• counter for theatres, deities, Buddhist images, tall mountains, and satokagura songs ➜ 里神楽

noun:

• cueing (e.g. a magnetic tape, recording) (cuing); cue; feeding (e.g. paper under a print head); feed; document loading

noun:

• Rip van Winkle effect (for a woman); feeling that everything has changed once one comes back to Japan (for a woman)

godan ~す verb:

• to ride (a horse) back; to drive (a car) back

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to play a leading role; to play a central part

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to trim a tree; to prune a tree's branches - obscure term

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to touch (a person's) heart; to impress (a person)