expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be on the same wavelength; to think alike; to get along

expression:

• month after month; as the months go by; with each passing month

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to turn everything into a joke; to continue joking to the last

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to come to an end; to lower the curtain ➜ 幕を閉じる【まくをとじる】

expression / ~する verb (spec.):

• to defy accepted norms; to go off the rails; to be eccentric

noun:

• company; fellow; colleague; associate; comrade; mate; group; circle of friends; partner
• member of the same category

noun:

• chimney; smokestack; funnel (of a ship); stovepipe
• carrying a passenger without turning on the taximeter - slang

noun:

• district; county ［ぐん］
• district (of 2-20 50-home neighbourhoods or townships, in the ritsuryo period) ➜ 国郡里制

adjectival noun / adverb / ~の noun:

• as one would expect
• still; all the same
• even... (e.g. "even a genius...") - as さすがの〜も

noun / ~する noun:

• execution; enforcing; carrying out ［しこう・せこう・しぎょう］
• giving alms; giving food to the poor or monks ［せぎょう］

noun / suffix noun:

• quotient - Mathematics term ➜ 積
• dealing; dealer; store
• second degree (of the Japanese & Chinese pentatonic scale) ➜ 五音
• Shang (dynasty of China) ➜ 殷

noun:

• room that cannot be entered (e.g. because it's locked from the inside)
• secret room

noun / ~する noun:

• lifting a person high (in celebration); tossing someone into the air; carrying someone on shoulders

noun:

• Star Festival (held in July or August); Tanabata; Festival of the Weaver ➜ 五節句

noun:

• one person; one customer - honorific language
• unmarried woman (with no children) over the age of 30 - colloquialism ➜ 負け犬

noun:

• morning star; Venus ➜ 金星【きんせい】
• preeminent person (within their own field); star (of the stage, silver screen, etc.)

noun:

• sacred treasure; the three sacred treasures (sword, jewel, mirror) ➜ 三種の神器
• implement used in religious ceremonies

noun / ~する noun:

• kiss - colloquialism

noun / ~と adverb:

• squeak (as in the sound made by mice)
• sound of liquid being sucked up

noun / ~する noun:

• acknowledgement; acknowledgment; understanding (e.g. "please be understanding of the mess during our renovation"); noting ➜ 了承

noun:

• Naraka; hell; hades - Buddhism term - From Sanskrit "naraka"
• very bottom; the end; worst possible circumstances
• theatre basement; theater basement ［奈落］

noun:

• praying mantis (esp. the narrow-winged mantis, Tenodera angustipennis) - occ. written 杜父魚

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to become bald from the forehead; to recede (of one's hairline)

adjectival noun / noun:

• having one's hands full; not having any room to do more; at the limit

noun:

• glossy silk thread (made from raw silk treated in a solution to dissolve the sericin)

noun:

• radio or television program broadcast in the same time slot on all or most days (programme)