noun:

• obtaining the respective numbers of cranes and tortoises from the total of their heads and legs; calculating the values of two unknown quantities from their unit total and the total of one of their attributes

expression / godan ~ぶ verb:

• to be the subject of attention; to call people's attention; to be the rage; to be of interest

expression:

• dancing fool, watching fool; you're a fool if you dance, and a fool if you just look on; all fools, so let's all dance

noun:

• priest - used at certain shrines, e.g. Ise, Kamo - Shintō term
• member of one of the four administrative ranks in the ritsuryo system - archaism ➜ 四等官
• government official in charge of a town, esp. in Heian Kyoto - archaism
• prominent member of a town - archaism
• river boatman; captain of a riverboat
• (medieval) harbor manager - archaism
• bandit leader; head of a gang of brigands - archaism

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to place on (something)
• to give (someone) a ride; to give a lift; to pick up; to help on board - esp. 乗せる
• to load (luggage); to carry; to take on board - esp. 載せる
• to send out (on the airwaves, etc.)
• to deceive; to take for a ride
• to (sing) along with (musical accompaniment)
• to let (someone) take part
• to excite (someone)
• to publish (an article); to run (an ad) ［載せる］

expression:

• I have to do something; that's something I have to do - dial. phrase popularized by Miyazaki mayor Hideo Higashikokubaru in 2007 ➜ どうにかして

noun:

• bird's egg (esp. a chicken egg)
• chick; baby bird (esp. a baby chicken)
• eggshell-colored traditional Japanese paper made primarily of Diplomorpha sikokiana fibres (high-quality, glossy) - abbreviation ➜ 鳥の子紙
• eggshell (colour) - abbreviation ➜ 鳥の子色
• red and white oval rice cakes - abbreviation ➜ 鳥の子餅

noun / ~する noun:

• call; summons; paging; curtain call ➜ 呼び出す【よびだす】

noun:

• usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc. - Sumo term
• telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached - abbreviation ➜ 呼び出し電話
• box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse) - archaism ➜ 陸湯
• high-ranking prostitute in the Yoshiwara district (Edo period) - archaism
• unlicensed prostitute in the Fukagawa red-light district (Edo period) - archaism

noun:

• the death of Shakyamuni Buddha - Buddhism term
• Buddhist service held on the day of Buddha's death (orig. 15th of the 2nd month, now 15th of the 3rd month) - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 仏涅槃忌

godan -いく／-ゆく verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to go; to move (in a direction or towards a specific location); to head (towards); to be transported (towards); to reach ➜ 来る【くる】
• to proceed; to take place - い sometimes omitted in auxiliary use ➜ 旨く行く
• to pass through; to come and go
• to walk
• to die; to pass away ［逝く］
• to do (in a specific way)
• to stream; to flow

auxiliary verb:

• to continue

godan -いく／-ゆく verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to have an orgasm; to come; to cum - usually written using kana alone
• to trip; to get high; to have a drug-induced hallucination - usually written using kana alone - slang

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be furnished with; to be provided with; to be equipped with
• to be possessed of; to be endowed with; to be gifted with
• to be among; to be one of

noun:

• the empress, the empress dowager and the grand empress dowager ➜ 三后
• emperor's second consort
• empress; palace of the empress
• building of a Shinto shrine built on middle ground
• demesne of the imperial palace ➜ 皇居

noun:

• five flavors (sweet, salty, spicy, sour, bitter); five palates; five tastes
• five flavors (milk at various stages of making ghee: fresh milk, cream, curdled milk, butter, and ghee); "the five periods of the Buddha's teachings" [figurative] - Buddhism term ➜ 五時教

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to associate with; to keep company with; to go out with; to go steady with; to get on with
• to go along with; to follow someone's lead; to accompany someone; to compromise

expression:

• take care of yourself before you take care of others; wave off your own flies before you wave off somebody else's flies [literal] - proverb

noun:

• prajna; wisdom required to attain enlightenment - Buddhism term - From Sanskrit "prajñā"
• noh mask of a grinning, horned demoness (represents a woman's rage and jealousy) ➜ 般若面【はんにゃめん】
• family crest designed after the Hannya noh mask
• dreadful face (esp. of a woman driven mad by jealousy); terrifying facial expression - abbreviation ➜ 般若面【はんにゃづら】

noun:

• jar; pot; vase
• dice cup
• depression (i.e. the basin of a waterfall)
• target (when aiming an arrow) - archaism
• (figurative) bull's-eye - usually written using kana alone ➜ 思うつぼ
• key point (of a conversation, etc.) - usually written using kana alone
• acupuncture point; moxibustion point - usually written using kana alone
• nodes on a fingerboard (of a shamisen, etc.) - often ツボ - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• bedding; bed - archaism ➜ 枕席

noun / ~する noun:

• to sleep together in the same bed - archaism
• to sleep together using each other's bodies as pillow - archaism
• to sleep together using books as a pillow - archaism

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to stick; to paste; to affix - esp. 貼る

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb / transitive:

• to stretch; to spread; to strain; to tighten; to put up (tent)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to form (e.g. ice on a pond)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb / transitive:

• to fill; to swell

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to stick out; to put; to slap

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be expensive

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to keep a watch on; to be on the lookout

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to become one tile away from completion ［張る］ - Mahjong term ➜ テンパる・聴牌

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to span; to generate - Mathematics term

expression:

• it is darkest under the lamp post; it's hard to see what is under your nose; go abroad to hear of home; you must go into the country to hear what news at London - proverb

noun / counter:

• mountain; hill
• mine (e.g. coal mine)
• heap; pile

noun:

• crown (of a hat); thread (of a screw); tread (of a tire); protruding part of an object
• climax; peak; critical point
• guess; speculation
• criminal case; crime - used by policemen, crime reporters, etc.
• mountain climbing; mountaineering
• festival float (esp. one mounted with a decorative halberd) ➜ 山鉾
• wall; wall tile - Mahjong term
• temple; temple grounds - archaism

prefix noun:

• wild

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to have someone hold; to let someone have; to give
• to have someone carry; to send with someone
• to keep; to preserve
• to have someone pay (e.g. the bill); to burden someone with
• to raise someone's hopes

expression:

• a man is still a man even if his hair is tied with straw; a man is still a man even if he's poor

noun:

• (of the) genre painting style; (of the) style of painting that depicts people's customs and manners; (of the) type of painting that denotes the life of ordinary people - four character idiom

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to wave; to shake; to swing
• to sprinkle; to throw (dice)
• to cast (actor); to allocate (work)
• to turn down (somebody); to reject; to jilt; to dump
• to abandon; to give up; to ruin
• to add kana indicating a reading of a word ➜ 振り仮名
• to slightly change headings; to change directions
• to extract by broiling; to prepare an infusion of; to decoct
• to carry with great vigor (e.g. a portable shrine)
• to bring up a topic; to lead to a topic
• to replace; to substitute
• to set up a joke for somebody else