auxiliary verb:

• used to indicate respect for the listener (or reader) - polite language ➜ ませ
• used to indicate respect for those affected by the action - archaism - humble language

expression:

• the day is short, and the work is much; my goal is still a long way off - proverb

noun:

• single horseman
• wait for one tile to finish one's pair and one's hand; wait for half of one's pair with four melds completed - Mahjong term ➜ 単騎待ち【たんきまち】

noun:

• waiting for one tile to finish one's pair and one's hand; waiting for half of one's pair with four melds completed - Mahjong term

noun:

• long female underwear (from bloomers)
• shorts with elasticized cuffs (were used by women as sportswear) (elasticised); gym shorts - not ブルマーズ ➜ 体操服

expression:

• one should not rush to make a profit; business is best run when sales flow like a cow's drool: long and thin - obscure term

noun:

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

expression / ichidan verb:

• to ask for instructions; to ask for someone's opinion; to inquire of
• to invoke an oracle; to consult an oracle

noun:

• salary supplement, e.g. for work performed at inconvenient times or as overtime allowance usually for so-called exempt workers, i.e. workers who are expected to work a certain number of overtime hours ➜ 割増賃金

noun:

• legume (esp. edible legumes or their seeds, such as beans, peas, pulses, etc.); beans; peas
• soya bean (Glycine max); soybean; soy ➜ 大豆
• female genitalia (esp. the clitoris) - colloquialism
• kidney - colloquialism - usually written using kana alone - Food term

prefix noun:

• miniature; tiny
• child

adjectival noun / noun:

• undutifulness to one's parents; lack of filial piety
• (the crime of) cursing one's parents ［ふきょう］ - archaism ➜ 八虐
• disowning one's child ［ふきょう］ - archaism

noun:

• Imperial New Year's Lectures (ceremony in which the emperor and members of the imperial family Their Majesties listen to expert lectures in the fields of human, social and natural sciences)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to disturb the water; to wake a sleeping dog; to wake a sleeping child [literal]

noun:

• bonding temperature (for diffusion bonding); welding temperature (for diffusion welding); junction temperature (of a semiconductor)

noun:

• an offering of tea and hot water made to Buddha or the spirit of the deceased
• a tea infusion; tea and hot water
• tea ceremony ➜ 茶の湯

noun:

• whorl of white hair on the forehead of the Buddha, represented by a white precious stone on statues of Buddha; urna

~する noun / adverb:

• to feel anxious; to feel nervous; to be kept in suspense; to feel excited; to feel thrilled - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• fluttering down; trickling down (e.g. tears) - onomatopoeia
• hanging untidily (of hair); straggling - onomatopoeia

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to get tired; to be exhausted
• to wear out; to be battered from long use

noun:

• Failure to think of the long term leads to grief in the short term - four character idiom

noun:

• big-footed myotis (Myotis macrodactylus); eastern long-fingered bat; Japanese large-footed bat

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• somewhat large; of a larger size; on the large size ➜ 小振り

noun / ~する noun:

• large swing (bat, racquet, etc.); long sweeping stroke

adverb:

• for millennia and millennia; for years and years; forever and ever - archaism

noun:

• head and body

suffix:

• heads tall (ratio of total height to length of the head); heads long - after a number

noun:

• long "o" vowel arising from combination of the "o" and "u" or "e" and "u" sounds

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to succeed; to relieve; to replace - esp. 替わる, 替る
• to take the place of; to substitute for; to take over for; to represent; to hand over (telephone) - esp. 代わる, 代る
• to be exchanged; to change (places with); to switch - esp. 換わる, 換る