noun:

• mimicking an animal's call (esp. a bird); imitating a call

noun / ~する noun:

• inundating a castle; cutting off a castle's water supply

noun:

• underside of a bird's wing
• lining of a haori ➜ 羽織

noun / ~する noun:

• cleaning up or covering for another; bearing the consequences of someone else's error; paying a debt for someone; wiping another's buttocks [literal]

expression:

• it is simply common courtesy to clean up after yourself; a bird does not foul the nest it is about to leave; on leaving a place one should see that all is in good order - proverb ➜ 跡を濁す【あとをにごす】

expression:

• it is simply common courtesy to clean up after yourself; a bird does not foul the nest it is about to leave; on leaving a place one should see that all is in good order - proverb ➜ 跡を濁す【あとをにごす】・立つ鳥跡を濁さず

noun / ~する noun:

• entrusting (something to a person); consignment (of goods); putting in someone's charge; trust; commission

noun:

• imperturbability; steadfastness
• cool head in an emergency; keeping one's calm (e.g. during a fight) - Martial Arts term

noun:

• sheep in a tiger's skin; gimcrack; showy without real worth; all show and no substance - four character idiom

noun:

• preserving in alcohol
• pickling one's liver; drinking incessantly; being a souse

noun:

• convulsions (in a child); nervousness; short-temperedness
• bug thought to cause children's diseases

noun:

• match where the umpire disqualifies the coach and one player after the player has done something dangerous (such as hit by pitch; to prevent retaliation by the opposing team) - Baseball term

expression:

• in spring one sleeps a sleep that knows no dawn; in spring one sleeps like a log - proverb

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to advance on; to close in; to march on; to descend on (the enemy); to move towards; to surge forward (crowd, wave of nostalgia, wave, etc.); to rush for (the door); to inundate; to overwhelm; to push aside

noun / ~の noun:

• veteran; (someone) schooled by adversity in many battles; (someone) rich in life's experience gained through much adversity - four character idiom

noun:

• pad placed below the sheet on which a seal is to be pressed - used to make the seal's imprint clearer

adjectival noun / ~の noun / suffix:

• being fond of; having a liking for
• to the liking of; favored by; popular with

noun:

• family trouble (quarrel); domestic squabble; internal squabble (over headship rights) in a daimyo family in the Edo period

noun / prefix / suffix:

• medium; average; middle

noun:

• moderation
• middle school - abbreviation ➜ 中一・中学校
• China - abbreviation ➜ 中国
• volume two (of three) - abbreviation ➜ 中巻

suffix noun:

• during (a certain time when one did or is doing something); under (construction, etc.); while ➜ 話し中
• in; out of (e.g. three out of ten people) ➜ 中【じゅう】

noun:

• representative director; managing director; president; someone chosen by the board of directors from among the directors to actually represent the company in its dealings with the outside world

noun:

• one's time at a certain point (at various points) of a race

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to glide; to slide (e.g. on skis); to slip
• to fail (an examination); to bomb (when telling a joke)
• to drop; to go down; to come down; to fall (e.g. in status)

adverb:

• never; by no means; not in the least; in no way - with neg. verb

noun:

• mythical carp with the head of a lion and the body of a fish (auspicious protectors of well-being)

expression:

• if you look carefully, it's more ordinary than it appears; the ghost, when examined closely, was withered silver grass [literal]