noun:

• backwash; rip current; undertow ➜ 寄せ波
• stern wave
• drawback (of a tsunami, i.e. when a wave trough reaches land before a crest) ➜ 押し波

noun:

• Showa-era stage show in which a woman would stand half-naked in a frame (resembling a Western-style painting)

noun:

• finding a way out of a potentially fatal situation; seeking a way out of a desperate situation - four character idiom

numeric:

• one-tenth; one percent (one-tenth of a wari); 3 mm (one-tenth of a sun); 2.4 mm (one-tenth of a mon, a traditional unit used to measure shoe sizes); 0.1 degree (one-tenth of a do, used to measure body temperature on any temperature scale)

noun:

• one-quarter of a ryou (obsolete unit of currency)
• thickness
• advantageous circumstances
• one-tenth of a monme of silver ➜ 匁【もんめ】

noun:

• meaning of a title (of a book, poem, etc.); point of a question

expression / godan ~ぶ verb:

• to cause a commotion; to create a big stir; to invoke a storm [literal]

expression:

• better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion; better be first in a village than second at Rome; better to be the mouth of a chicken than the rear end of a cow [literal] - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• setting oneself free from the life of a white-collar worker; quitting a job as a salaryman and launching an independent business ➜ サラ

noun:

• endpaper (of a book); end-paper
• facing (material sewn on the inside edge of a garment)
• looking back; triumphing over (a rival) ➜ 見返す

~の noun / adjectival noun / noun / adverbial noun:

• a lot; lots; plenty; many; a large number; much; a great deal; a good deal
• enough; sufficient

suffix noun:

• enough; too many; too much - after a noun; usu. read as だくさん ➜ 沢山【だくさん】

noun:

• a kick; mounting a bar with a kick

noun:

• New Year's ceremony in which a hoe is used to break ground in a field lying in a lucky direction ➜ 鍬入れ

noun / ~する noun:

• boiling; seething
• becoming heated (e.g. debate); excitement; agitation; fermentation
• soaring (prices); shooting up

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• parched; dried-up; bone-dry - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun:

• empty; hollow - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• rattling; clattering - onomatopoeia
• laughing loudly; roaring with laughter - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• (eating) heartily - onomatopoeia
• energetically; vigorously; (working) hard; enthusiastically - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• bulging (muscles); welling up (of strength, courage, etc.) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• geisha; Japanese singing and dancing girl
• dressed-up beautiful woman

noun:

• dizziness (from standing up too fast); orthostatic syncope; lightheadedness; vertigo

noun:

• mushroom that springs up in the morning and withers by night; "something short-lived" [figurative] - archaism

adverb / ~と adverb:

• bubblingly; foamingly; sinking or rising while giving off bubbles - onomatopoeia ➜ ぶくぶく
• cute and chubby; pudgy; puffed up - onomatopoeia

expression / noun:

• superior; boss; higher-up
• them (as opposed to "us")
• person above; upstairs neighbour (neighbor)

noun:

• lucky-number request (the person who is the Nth visitor to a web site gets to make a request, e.g. for a custom drawing, where N is a special number like 10000) - from キリ番 and リクエスト - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ キリ番・リクエスト

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hang (a curtain); to droop (a tail); to lower (a blind)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to pile up; to accumulate

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to dig out; to pick up

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to jump up to one's feet