noun:

• (Edo-period) roadside teahouse where one would go to relax (in comparison with a restaurant style teahouse and teahouse offering sexual services); tea stall ➜ 色茶屋・料理茶屋

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• cooking for oneself; cooking one's own food; doing one's own cooking; making food oneself; self-catering
• scanning a book or magazine to create an ebook by oneself

expression / ichidan verb:

• to give one's life (e.g. in battle); to devote one's life (e.g. to a cause)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to say the same thing over and over again; to talk until one is blue in the face

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to poke (repeatedly, lightly); to nudge ➜ 突く【つつく】
• to peck at (one's food); to pick at
• to peck at (someone's faults, etc.)
• to egg on; to put up to

expression / ichidan verb:

• to put one's palms together (e.g. when praying or asking for something); to place one's hands together
• to compete against somebody; to play (a game, match, etc.) against somebody - idiom

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to poke (repeatedly, lightly); to nudge
• to peck at (one's food); to pick at
• to peck at (someone's faults, etc.)
• to egg on; to put up to

noun:

• crime for which one's three types of relatives will be punished; crime implicating one's relatives of all three types - obscure term ➜ 三族

noun:

• being preoccupied with immediate (superficial) differences without realizing that there are no differences in substance; six of one and half a dozen of another - four character idiom

noun:

• five implements placed in front of a Buddhist altar: two candlesticks, two vases (usu. containing flowers made of gilded copper) and one incense burner

noun:

• financially scraping by; meagre existence (meager); hand to mouth existence
• living one's life without plan; living life day-by-day; taking life one day at a time

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to hold a thing in one's arms; to carry in one's arms; to embrace (e.g. a baby)
• to take upon oneself; to be saddled with

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be undeserved; to be more than one deserves
• to be more than one can handle

expression:

• small bag and young woman [literal]
• like a small bag seems to be able to contain few items yet can be stuffed with many, a young woman seems inexpensive to bring up yet can end up costing a lot
• a young woman and a small bag are both fragile and great care must be taken with both of them

noun:

• value honor; round wind, seat wind, and dragon tiles - Mahjong term ➜ 圏風牌・門風牌・三元牌
• winning hand containing one kong (or pung) of a value honor - Mahjong term ➜ 役【やく】

noun:

• dropping; losing - abbreviation
• missing item; something one forgot to write down
• trap
• wooden protrusion from a Japanese door frame that fits a hole in the threshold, acting as a lock when closed
• conclusion (of a speech, etc.)
• metallic bowl used to hold the charcoal in a wooden hibachi ➜ 落とし掛け

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to divert (e.g. one's mind); to distract; to relieve (e.g. boredom)
• to conceal (e.g. one's sorrow with a smile); to shift (the conversation)

noun:

• training method in sports, etc. where one imagines how a scenario would play out; mental rehearsal; mental preparation; visualization (for practicing a skill in one's mind)(practising); practicing under simulated conditions (e.g. while watching a video) - abbreviation ➜ イメージトレーニング

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 ~す verb / transitive:

• to sharpen (e.g. pencil); to pout (e.g. lips) ➜ 尖らせる【とがらせる】
• to get nervous; to set one's nerves on edge ➜ 尖らせる【とがらせる】
• to raise (e.g. one's voice) ➜ 尖らせる【とがらせる】

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to sharpen (e.g. pencil); to pout (e.g. lips) ➜ 尖らす【とがらす】
• to get nervous; to set one's nerves on edge ➜ 尖らす【とがらす】
• to raise (e.g. one's voice) ➜ 尖らす【とがらす】

noun / ~する noun:

• running errands; going on errands
• (transaction of) business; going about one's business
• doing one's business (i.e. at the toilet); going to the washroom
• purveying; purveyor - esp. 用達 ➜ 御用達

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to mince; to cut fine; to chop up; to hash; to shred
• to carve; to engrave; to chisel; to notch
• to tick away (time); to beat out (e.g. rhythm); to record the passing moments
• to etch (into one's mind); to remember distinctly - as 心に刻む, etc. ➜ 心に刻む
• to have tattooed - archaism
• to torment - archaism

noun:

• crossed fingers and word said to call someone to be avoided as 'dirty' - children's language

~する noun:

• to cross one's fingers (to ward off 'dirt')

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to err and not change one's ways, this is what it is to err (from Analects of Confucius)