noun:

• direct planting of a cutting in the ground

expression:

• out of the frying pan into the fire; out of the tiger's mouth into the dragon's den [literal] - proverb

noun:

• whole year; all year round; throughout the year

adverb:

• always; all the time; perpetually ［ねんじゅう・ねんぢゅう］

noun:

• during an era
• middle class (of a nursery school, etc.) ［ねんちゅう］

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to complete most of something; to take a concrete shape; for the most important parts to be done; the nose and eyes are in place [literal] - idiom

noun:

• Balcony of Appearances; balcony where the imperial family appears before the public
• (sports) interview platform; winner's platform; rostrum - colloquialism
• dancing platform (in a disco) - slang

noun:

• gift received from a visitor (usu. used when offering the visitor to partake of part of that gift) - honorific language - abbreviation ➜ 御持たせ物

noun:

• gift received from a visitor (usu. used when offering the visitor to partake of part of that gift) - honorific language ➜ お持たせ

noun:

• the privy purse; the money used for private purposes by the members of the Imperial family

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to write from top to bottom
• to write out (at a stretch); to write without a pause
• to rewrite classical Chinese in Japanese word order

noun / ~する noun:

• the end of the match; the end of the game

noun:

• "roof" kanji radical at top (radical 40) - 宀 ➜ 字【じ】

noun:

• hiragana; cursive Japanese syllabary used primarily for native Japanese words (esp. function words, inflections, etc.) ➜ 片仮名

godan ~ぐ verb / transitive:

• to act as an agent for; to intermediate
• to announce (someone's arrival); to answer (the door, the phone); to receive (a guest at reception); to usher in (a guest)
• to convey (a message)

noun:

• "roof" kanji radical (radical 40) ➜ ウ冠

noun:

• reeling by hand (esp. silk); hand filature ［座繰り・坐繰り・座繰・坐繰］

noun / ~する noun:

• counter sinking (making conical depression so screw-heads don't protrude above surface); spot facing (machining a flat space for bolt head, etc.); spotfacing - esp. 座ぐり

noun:

• hollowing out (e.g. wooden chair seat, scallop pattern on roof, etc.) - esp. 座刳り

noun:

• sense of the trend of the times; sensitivity to the changing times - four character idiom ➜ 時世感覚

noun:

• Yamaraja (king of the world of the dead, who judges the dead) - honorific language - Buddhism term ➜ 閻魔

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to let fly; to make fly; to send flying; to blow off (e.g. in the wind); to launch; to fire; to hurl; to shoot
• to skip over; to leave out; to omit; to drop (e.g. a stitch)
• to run fast; to drive fast; to gallop
• to spray; to splash; to spatter
• to say without reservation; to call out (e.g. a jeer); to rattle of (e.g. a joke)
• to spread (e.g. a rumour); to circulate; to send out (a message); to issue (e.g. an appeal)
• to transfer (to a less important post); to send away (e.g. to a provincial branch); to demote
• to dispatch quickly (e.g. a reporter)
• to get rid of; to burn off (alcohol)
• to attack (e.g. with a leg manoeuvre)

auxiliary verb / godan ~す verb:

• to do vigorously; to do roughly; to do energetically

noun:

• frog (esp. the wrinkled frog or Asian grass frog); toad (esp. the Japanese toad) - colloquialism

noun:

• sumo management stock; one of the 105 titled trusteeships in the Japan Sumo Association; tradable share that entitles the holder to take part in the management of sumo - Sumo term

noun:

• epistolary style (of Japanese literature)

noun:

• (Japanese) system of lifetime employment

noun:

• Japanese fan made of feathers

noun:

• var. of traditional Japanese paper ➜ 奉書紙

noun:

• (Japanese) system of lifetime employment