noun:

• that (indicating something distant from both speaker and listener (in space, time or psychologically), or something understood without naming it directly) ➜ 何れ・此れ・其れ
• that person (used to refer to one's equals or inferiors)
• over there - archaism
• down there (i.e. one's genitals) ［あれ］ - colloquialism
• period; menses ［あれ］ - colloquialism

interjection:

• hey (expression of surprise, suspicion, etc.); huh?; eh?

noun:

• that (something mentioned before which is distant psychologically or in terms of time)

noun:

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

noun:

• one's official name; one's registered name; one's name as it appears on the family register ➜ 戸籍

godan ~す verb / ~す verb (precursor to modern する) / intransitive verb:

• to ripen; to mature
• to be ready for action; to be the right time (to act)
• to be in common use; to come to sound natural
• to become skilled

~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to ripen; to mature
• to be ready for action; to be the right time (to act)
• to be in common use; to come to sound natural
• to become skilled

noun:

• sending a ship to the bottom; sinking (a ship)

~する noun:

• to sink a ship

expression / ~する verb (spec.):

• to appear the same; to be like; to seem to be; to be similar to

noun:

• Chinese soft-shelled turtle (Pelodiscus sinensis); soft-shelled turtle (Trionychidae)
• trap door located on the walkway in a kabuki theatre ［すっぽん］
• bilge pump (used on traditional Japanese ships) ［すっぽん］

noun:

• native Japanese kanji (esp. used during the Edo period) - archaism ➜ 国字
• made-up kanji; Chinese character of one's own creation
• creating a character with a group of people ➜ 人文字

noun:

• daruma; tumbling doll; round, red-painted good-luck doll in the shape of Bodhidharma, with a blank eye to be completed when a person's wish is granted
• Bodhidharma
• prostitute

noun:

• seducer; smooth talker; ladies' man; playboy; playgirl

noun / ~する noun:

• picking up women (on the street) - usu. written as ナンパ - usually written using kana alone - colloquialism ➜ 逆ナン

noun:

• moderate party; moderate ➜ 硬派
• social story (in a newspaper, etc.); society columnist (of a newspaper)
• bearish trader; bear

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to lean against; to lean on; to recline on
• to lie heavy (on the stomach); to be uneasily digested

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to read (someone's) mind; to read between the lines
• to read (a calibration, a tape, etc.); to read (out)

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to work assiduously; to give one's all; to make the utmost effort; to make (grind) one's body into dust [literal] - idiom ➜ 身を粉にする【みをこにする】

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to work assiduously; to give one's all; to make the utmost effort; to make (grind) one's body into dust [literal]

noun:

• Collections of the Twenty-One Eras; twenty-one collections of waka compiled by imperial command (early Heian to early Muromachi) ➜ 勅撰和歌集

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to rub; to crumple
• to massage
• to argue; to have a heated discussion
• to train; to coach
• to jostle; to crowd; to shake; to rock
• to have various experiences (out in the world) - as もまれる

noun / ~する noun:

• branch family; cadet family; setting up a branch family
• leaving one's employer to set up a new shop with the same name ➜ 暖簾分け

noun:

• separate house - archaism

expression:

• don't eat plum pits (because they are poisonous); if you eat a plum, don't eat the kernel; inside it heavenly gods sleep [literal] - proverb

noun:

• credit - abbreviation ➜ 掛け売り・掛け買い
• money owed on an account; bill
• hot noodles in broth - abbreviation - usually written using kana alone ➜ 掛け蕎麦【かけそば】・掛けうどん【かけうどん】

noun / suffix noun:

• proportion (of wholesale price, as tenths of list price)

suffix:

• in the midst of - after a -masu stem
• rest; rack; hanger - after a noun

expression:

• don't feed autumn eggplant to your wife (because they're too delicious, because they'll give her the chills, or because their lack of seeds will reduce her fertility) - proverb

adverb:

• still more; even more; all the more
• still less; even less - with neg. verb

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to take a rest under a tree; to rest in the shade of a tree

noun:

• 15th day of the 7th lunar month; (last day of) Bon lantern festival ➜ 于蘭盆
• mid-year gift; summer gift; Bon Festival gifts ➜ お中元

noun:

• red poetry ribbon card (in hanafuda) ➜ 花札
• the three red poetry ribbon cards (high-scoring combination in hanafuda)