godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to compete with each other

expression:

• none other than; ... himself; ... herself

noun / ~する noun:

• overseas travel (to Western countries); going abroad (to study or travel)

noun:

• store operated by a foreigner (in pre-communist China)

adjectival noun:

• madly in love; completely charmed (by); head over heels (for)

adverb:

• from the heart; entirely; completely

noun:

• bottom of one's heart - archaism

noun:

• groove in a shamisen player's fingernail caused by the friction of the string of the instrument ➜ 糸道【いとみち】

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• in confusion; in a fluster; in bewilderment; in a dither; in a panic; all shook up; helplessly - onomatopoeia
• sobbing; tearfully; trembling (voice) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• three public corporations (Japan National Railways, Japan Monopoly Corporation, and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone) and five government enterprises (postal services, mintage, printing, management of state-owned forests/fields, and monopolization of alcohol)

noun:

• plan of a house; arrangement of rooms; list of rooms in an apartment, excluding bathroom and toilet, encoded as a string of digits and letters (e.g. "2DK" for a two-room apartment with a kitchen/dining area)

noun:

• Ten'ichijin; Nakagami; god of fortune in Onmyōdō who descends to the northeast on the 46th day of the sexagenary cycle and completes a clockwise circuit, spending five days on each cardinal point and six days on each ordinal point, returning to heaven from the north on the 30th day of the next sexagenary cycle; travelling in the direction of Ten'ichijin is considered unlucky ➜ 陰陽道・己酉・癸巳

noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• enraged outcry; loud protest; being bitterly criticized by others; being loudly denounced by others - four character idiom

noun:

• axe murder incident (Aug. 18, 1976); poplar tree incident; killing of two American army officers by North Korean soldiers in the DMZ

noun:

• scaffold; scaffolding
• foothold; footing
• foothold (e.g. in business); foundation; base
• convenience for transportation; convenience of access (by road or rail) ➜ 交通の便【こうつうのべん】

noun:

• artifact spirit; in folk belief, long-lived objects (household objects, living beings, nature, etc.) become inhabited by a spirit

noun:

• type of newspaper from the Meiji era (characterized by its use of political commentary written in literary language) ➜ 小新聞
• major newspaper

noun:

• points-based reward website; website where users can earn redeemable points by taking part in surveys, etc.

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to distinguish; to recognize; to recognise; to tell apart; to differentiate (both figuratively and visually)
• to identify (whether an object is positive or negative in some aspect); to know the difference between something of superior and inferior quality (on sight or figuratively)

noun / ~する noun:

• death by physical trauma; violent death; exogenous death; death by an external cause

noun / ~の noun:

• bricks and clicks; brick and click; business with both physical and online presence ➜ クリックアンドモルタル

noun / ~の noun:

• black person

noun:

• woman in the nightlife business; demimondaine; geisha and prostitutes - archaism ➜ 玄人

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• winding; meandering; zigzagging; zig-zag; in twists and turns; sinuously; tortuously - onomatopoeia

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to spend one's days in tears and sorrow

noun:

• the five sins in Buddhism (murder, theft, adultery, falsehood and drink)

noun:

• artistic modulations in traditional Japanese performances; opening, middle and climax (end)

noun / ~する noun:

• sitting calmly and quietly (i.e. in order to meditate)

noun:

• rice, meat and vegetable dish served in a small pot