noun:

• novel of formation (education); novel of character development; novel which traces the intellectual, moral, spiritual or social development of a young person; Bildungsroman - four character idiom

godan ~ぐ verb / transitive:

• to connect; to link together
• to tie; to fasten; to restrain
• to maintain; to preserve; to keep
• to transfer (phone call); to put a person through
• to hedge; to buy or sell forward

noun:

• part alternation mark (symbol indicating the following words are taken from a song or that the person saying the words is singing); Unicode U+303D symbol

noun:

• living; being alive Antonym: 死に
• freshness; liveliness; vitality
• situation in which a group of stones cannot be captured because it contains two or more gaps (in go)
• stet; leave as-is (proofreading) - usually イキ - usually written using kana alone

prefix:

• damned

noun / ~する noun:

• a round; a turn; going around; making a round ➜ 一回り【ひとまわり】

noun:

• first anniversary of a person's death ➜ 一周忌【いっしゅうき】

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to burn; to kindle; to light (a fire); to make (a fire) ➜ 薫く【たく】
• to heat (a bath); to light (a stove); to stoke (a boiler)
• to use (a camera flash)

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]

noun:

• type of stew, usu. fish or vegetables in a mild broth; fish grilled unseasoned and then simmered slowly in soy and mirin broth

pre-noun adjectival:

• that (someone or something distant from both speaker and listener, or situation unfamiliar to both speaker and listener) ➜ 何の【どの】・此の・其の・彼【あれ】

~と adverb / ~する noun:

• warm and fluffy; soft - onomatopoeia
• steamy hot (food); hot and flaky

expression:

• feeling mentally tired; feeling of tired relief or accomplishment after effort or perseverance - Kansai dialect

noun:

• expectation that something took place, will take place or was in some state; it should be so; bound to be; expected to be; must be
• nock (of a bow)
• nock (of an arrow)
• nock-shaped grip (between thumb and forefinger) - Sumo term ➜ はず押し【はずおし】
• wooden frame on the tip of the mast of a Japanese ship that prevents the hawser from falling out

noun:

• to enrol in a temple school; child enrolled in a temple school ➜ 寺子屋
• incarcerating a criminal in a temple as a form of punishment (popular during the latter Muromachi and Azuchi-Momoyama periods)
• to go to a temple and repent (following a disaster, etc.)

interjection / noun:

• crying "banzai" (or raising one's hands in the banzai gesture)
• something worthy of celebration
• giving up ［ばんざい］
• long time - archaism
• eternal life (and prosperity) - archaism

interjection:

• banzai (a celebratory cheer); hurrah (hooray, hurray)

expression:

• the principle of fluidity and immutability in haiku; Haiku is both "fluid and transitory" and "eternal and immutable."; An interchange between the transient and the immutable is central to the soul of haiku. (Basho) - four character idiom

noun:

• turnip-shaped whistle made of hollowed-out wood or deer horn (attached to an arrow to sound when fired) - abbreviation ➜ 蕪
• arrow with such a whistle attached ➜ 鏑矢

~と adverb / noun:

• (with a) slamming noise (door, telephone receiver); (with a) banging noise; (with a) clash (broken dish); (with a) clank; (with a) bang - onomatopoeia

noun / prefix noun:

• smallness; small item
• short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days) ➜ 小の月
• elementary school - abbreviation ➜ 小学校
• younger or inferior (of two items or people with the same name)
• unit of field area (approx. 400 sq m) - archaism

godan ~ぐ verb / transitive / intransitive verb:

• to support (someone) financially; to finance; to supply (money); to give (in support)

godan ~ぐ verb / transitive:

• to present (money or gifts) to a monarch - archaism

noun:

• large, perforated, turnip-shaped arrowhead cover made of Japanese bigleaf magnolia or paulownia; harmless arrow affixed with such a cover (that whistles when shot and is used to drive off evil spirits) - abbr. of 響目

noun:

• branch of a sacred tree (esp. sakaki) with paper or cotton strips attached (used as an offering) - Shintō term
• sakaki (species of evergreen sacred to Shinto, Cleyera japonica) ➜ 榊

pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about something or someone close to the speaker (including the speaker), or about ideas expressed by the speaker); like this ➜ あんな・そんな・どんな

noun:

• words used when miserable or anxious - archaism - obsolete term
• words used to decline or refuse something - archaism - obsolete term
• words used when making an appeal - archaism - obsolete term

noun:

• fox (esp. the red fox, Vulpes vulpes)
• fox (i.e. a sly person)
• soba or udon topped with deep-fried tofu ➜ 狐うどん【きつねうどん】
• light brown; golden brown - abbreviation ➜ きつね色

expression:

• money talks; money is the key that opens all doors; money is the best lawyer in hell; even in hell, the extent of one's suffering is determined by money [literal] - proverb

noun:

• naked tribe; tribe or group that habitually goes naked
• nudist; nudism ➜ ヌーディズム
• being habitually undressed at home or in hotel rooms etc. (e.g. dressed in underwear) - slang