expression / godan ~る verb:

• to recover a cost; to recover an expense; to get a return on one's investment; to get one's money's worth

expression / noun / adjectival noun:

• real nuisance; becoming inconvenienced by someone else's problems (through no fault of one's own) - the いい is ironic

noun:

• fall; decline; lowering; hanging down; drooping; slanting (downward) Antonym: 上がり
• string apron; ornamental cords hanging from the front of a sumo wrestler's belt - Sumo term
• food offering to the gods; leftovers; hand-me-downs - usu. as お下がり ➜ お下がり
• leaving (one's master's place for home)

suffix noun / noun:

• a little after ...

~の noun / noun:

• in hand; on hand; on one; in stock; in store

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• handheld

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to insert; to put in; to thrust in; to plug in ➜ 差し込む【さしこむ】

godan ~る verb (irregular):

• to also be (implies that as well as the earlier stated this is also the case) - である with も; formal, literary ➜ である
• to be ... or something

noun:

• red Fuji; when Mt Fuji appears red because of the sun's rays (esp. in the early morning from late summer to early autumn)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to turn over; to turn around ➜ 身を翻す
• to change (one's mind); to reverse (one's decision); to take back (one's words)
• to fly (flag, etc.); to wave (skirt, cape, etc.)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to play dumb; to feign ignorance; to play innocent; to have a blank facial expression
• to play the fool
• to be in one's dotage

noun:

• room; chamber
• monk in charge of business in the monks' quarters
• bedroom (of a married couple)
• locule (in a plant ovary)
• atria and ventricles

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to pull; to tug; to lead (e.g. a horse)
• to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest) ➜ 惹く【ひく】・注意を引く
• to draw back (e.g. one's hand); to draw in (one's chin, stomach, etc.); to pull in
• to draw (a card, mahjong tile, etc.)
• to draw (a line, plan, etc.) ➜ 図面を引く
• to catch (a cold) ➜ 風邪を引く
• to play (a stringed or keyboard instrument) ➜ 弾く【ひく】
• to look up (e.g. a dictionary); to consult ➜ 辞書を引く
• to haul; to pull (vehicles) - esp. 牽く
• to subtract; to deduct
• to recede; to ebb; to fade
• to be descend from; to inherit (a characteristic)
• to quote; to cite; to raise (as evidence)
• to lay on (electricity, gas, etc.); to install (e.g. a telephone); to supply (e.g. water)
• to hold (e.g. a note)
• to apply (e.g. lipstick); to oil (e.g. a pan); to wax (e.g. a floor)

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to move back; to draw back; to recede ➜ 退く【ひく】
• to lessen; to subside; to ebb ➜ 退く【ひく】
• to resign; to retire; to quit ➜ 退く【ひく】

noun:

• one's say; one's point
• complaint; grievance; objection; excuse

noun / ~する noun:

• parturition; delivery; one's child; branch; offshoot; one's other self

noun:

• one's remaining years; the rest of one's life

noun:

• (one's) beloved car (or motorcycle, bicycle, etc.); (one's) wheels

noun:

• worrying about one's master's affairs; one who so worries

noun:

• one's nature; one's destiny
• custom; tradition; habit; convention

noun:

• having a samurai's spirit and a merchant's business sense - four character idiom

expression / noun:

• heyday; prime; one's glory; the height of one's prosperity

noun:

• restoring one's impaired reputation; regaining one's honor; redeeming oneself - four character idiom

noun:

• restoring one's impaired reputation; regaining one's honor; redeeming oneself - four character idiom

noun:

• one's wife, children, and other relations; one's whole family - four character idiom

noun:

• depending on the (one's) situation (circumstances); at one's pleasure - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• losing one's cool; blowing one's top - slang ➜ キレる

noun:

• quitting one's job and moving back to one's hometown - archaism ➜ 帰りなんいざ