expression:

• desperately; to the full extent of one's power; with all of one's ability

expression:

• our debt to our parents is higher than the mountain and deeper than the sea [literal] - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• extermination (e.g. of pests, demons, bandits); elimination; eradication; destruction; suppression
• making someone renounce worldly desires in order to concentrate on Buddha's teachings - Buddhism term
• curing illness

noun:

• aim; object; purpose; end
• expectations; prospects; hopes
• something that can be relied upon
• snack served with alcoholic drink - Kansai dialect

suffix noun:

• pad; guard

suffix noun / prefix noun:

• blow; strike

suffix:

• addressed to ［宛・宛て］
• per - also written as 充て - usually written using kana alone

~よい adjective:

• good; excellent; fine; nice; pleasant; agreeable - also written 良い ➜ 良い【よい】
• sufficient (can be used to turn down an offer); ready; prepared ➜ 良い【よい】
• profitable (e.g. deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial ➜ 良い【よい】
• OK ➜ 良い【よい】

noun / ~する noun:

• receiving in advance; taking before others
• prefetch - IT term
• anticipatory completion; finishing another person's sentence in anticipation of what likely to be said next - Linguistics term

noun / ~する noun:

• something used to cover the eyes; blindfold; blinder; blinker; eye bandage
• concealing one's home such that the interior cannot be seen from outside

noun:

• lying with one's head to the north (trad. position for dead bodies; taboo for sleeping)
• brown-lined puffer (species of pufferfish, Canthigaster rivulata) - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• bamboo stick used to strike meditators into greater wakefulness (in Zen Buddhism) - Buddhism term
• striking someone's wrist with one's index and middle finger - esp. しっぺ - usually written using kana alone

adjective:

• smelling burnt; smelling scorched
• smelling of gunpowder (i.e. as if military action seems about to happen); war is looming
• suspicious; dubious; questionable

noun:

• (getting a) perfect score; scoring 100; grading students on a scale of one hundred; doing perfectly (in a test); leaving nothing to be desired - four character idiom

noun:

• role (which someone or something plays in a given situation); part; contribution (to a given situation)

noun / ~する noun:

• government service; entering government service
• (of a ronin) finding a new lord or master to serve ➜ 浪人

noun:

• being at one's wit's end; being (quite) at a loss (what to do) - four character idiom

adverb:

• just when (one is about to ...); just as; the very moment when; on the point of

noun:

• death with dignity; natural death (as opposed to extending one's life unnaturally with life support)

noun:

• head and body

suffix:

• heads tall (ratio of total height to length of the head); heads long - after a number

expression:

• I am writing to you; I am (taking the liberty of) getting in touch with you - template phrase used in business writing - polite language

noun:

• portable stove for boiling water to make tea used for the tea ceremony during the summer

noun:

• coiled dragon; dragon coiled on the earth, which has not yet ascended to the sky

noun:

• formal objection (to an administrative disposition); request for examination (of a patent); request for administrative review - Law term

noun:

• as freely as one pleases; at will; to one's heart's content - four character idiom

noun:

• rice washed in cold water; dried rice soaked in water to soften

noun:

• way of affixing something
• way of recording something (to a logbook, etc.)

expression:

• there is no problem; there is no need to go into details - archaism