godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to lie face down (e.g. on the ground, napping on a desk); to lie prone
• to lower (one's head, gaze, etc.) - archaism

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to cut off the head of a sleeping person; to assassinate someone while he sleeps
• to catch someone off his guard by setting traps

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• after-; post-; ex-; after the fact; ex post ➜ 事前

adverb:

• day by day; by the day
• daily; every day - archaism

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to pull the trigger; to pull a trigger

adverb:

• day by day; every day; by the day

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to break the record; to break a record

noun:

• jack-in-the-box; jack-in-a-box

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to spare oneself the trouble; to spare oneself Antonym: 骨を折る ➜ 骨惜しみ

noun / ~する noun:

• beating time with one's hands; clapping to the beat

noun:

• making a careless move (in go, shogi, etc.); responding to an opponent's move without proper thought

expression / adjective:

• mere shadow of one's former self; having no trace left (of former glories, talent, looks, etc.); unrecognizable (as the person one used to be); unrecognisable - idiom

noun:

• humble samurai who served as a body guard on foot ➜ 徒侍
• bodyguards in service of the shogun who would walk ahead of him on an outing (Edo period) ➜ 徒士組【かちぐみ】

noun:

• people living in the country; people living inland; Japanese in Japan proper; people living on Honshu

~の noun / noun:

• not covered (e.g. of a sports opponent); unobserved; under the radar - From English "no mark"
• unmarked (e.g. of a product); unlabelled

noun:

• compound ideograph formation (one of the six kanji classifications); making kanji up of meaningful parts (e.g. "mountain pass" is up + down + mountain) ➜ 会意文字

noun:

• household of which half of the taxes were given to a designated person (ritsuryo system); vassal household allotted to a courtier ➜ 食封

noun:

• one place; (all in) the same place; one spot; one location; one part; one passage

noun / ~する noun:

• return to the United States

noun:

• term used to refer to Japanese-American children (nisei) who were sent by their parents to Japan before WW2 to receive their schooling

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to bend; to curve; to warp; to distort; to disfigure
• to bend (the truth); to falsify; to twist
• to corrupt; to sully

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be elated; to be excited; to be caught up in the moment; to be carried away; to get cocky - slang ➜ 調子に乗る【ちょうしにのる】

noun:

• speedrun; playing through a video game for additional challenge (e.g. as quickly as possible, to obtain the highest score, without using a certain weapon, etc.) ➜ やり込み【やりこみ】

noun:

• mekuri karuta (card game popular in the late Edo period)
• hanafuda; Japanese playing cards (12 suits of 4 cards, each suit representing a month indicated by a flower) ➜ 花札

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to bury the hatchet; to make up; to be reconciled; to be reunited (e.g. couple); to be reinstated - idiom

noun:

• groom; footman; stableman; equerry
• steward; intendant
• head of an institution, esp. religious; head of one institution serving also as the head of another - archaism

noun:

• novel of formation (education); novel of character development; novel which traces the intellectual, moral, spiritual or social development of a young person; Bildungsroman - four character idiom