noun:

• current master; father of one's current master - honorific language ➜ 若殿【わかとの】
• minister (of government); noble - honorific language
• nobleman's residence - honorific language - archaism

noun:

• Anderson's crocodile newt (Echinotriton andersoni); Anderson's newt; Ryukyu spiny newt; Japanese warty newt

noun:

• voice
• singing (of a bird); chirping (of an insect); hoot
• voice; opinion (as expressed in words); view; wish; attitude; will
• sound
• sense (of something's arrival); feeling - usu. as ～の声を聞く
• voice; voiced sound - Linguistics term

noun:

• large cut (e.g. of meat) ［大切り・大切］
• last piece of the day's programme; last act of a play; comic dialogue as the last item in vaudeville, music hall, etc.

expression / adjective:

• being driven into a corner; having no way out; being caught between a rock and a hard place

expression:

• to make a personal judgment on a problem with little insight; to look at the sky through a tube (Zhuangzi) [literal] ➜ 管窺【かんき】

noun:

• suicide immediately after the death of one's spouse or lover; following one's lover (husband, wife) into death

expression / ichidan verb:

• to knit one's brows (in discomfort, unease, disapproval, etc.); to raise one's eyebrows; to frown; to scowl

noun:

• New Year's Day - colloquialism ➜ 元日
• New Year's morning; morning of New Year's Day - orig. meaning

noun:

• hundredth of a yen
• coin made of non-precious materials ➜ 銭【ぜに】
• one-thousandth of a kan (as a unit of currency) - obsolete term ➜ 貫
• one-thousandth of a kan (as a unit of mass) - archaism

expression / ichidan verb:

• to take a commission; to take a cut; to take a piece of the action; to take a kickback - colloquialism

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to blame; to reproach; to censure; to rebuke; to reprove; to find fault; to take to task; to criticize; to criticise
• to question (a suspect); to challenge

ichidan verb:

• to aggravate (an injury); to be aggravated; to get inflamed

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to prick (one's conscience) ➜ 気が咎める

expression:

• walk a mile in other's shoes to understand their suffering; you can't appreciate others' suffering until you've gone through it yourself; pinch yourself and know others' pain [literal] - proverb

noun:

• (getting a) perfect score; scoring 100; grading students on a scale of one hundred; doing perfectly (in a test); leaving nothing to be desired - four character idiom

expression:

• parents may risk life and limb for their children (like a pheasant when the plains are burning or a crane on a cold night) - obscure term

noun:

• booklet constituting an informal living will (containing wishes regarding one's hospitalization or funeral, and perhaps one's life story, messages to loved ones, etc.) - From English "ending note"

adverb:

• snugly (into hole, container, etc.); tightly (fitting, covering); firmly - onomatopoeia
• (with a) pop (i.e. sound of a cork, etc. being pulled out of a hole in one movement); with a plop; (fall) straight - onomatopoeia

noun:

• small chrysanthemum
• small low grade piece of japanese paper used as a kettle rest or as a tissue - obscure term
• paper handed as a means of congratulations in a red light district - obscure term

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to say incorrectly; to use the wrong words; to make a slip of the tongue
• to forget to say; to miss one's chance to say

noun:

• a woman becoming a Buddha; a woman entering Nirvana - Buddhism term

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to shake; to jolt; to rock; to swing; to sway
• to shake (e.g. the political world); to disturb; to shock; to upset
• to put off a batter (by varying one's type of pitch) - Baseball term

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to take someone's place; to step into someone's shoes; to succeed someone in his post ➜ 後釜

godan ~る verb:

• to act as one pleases; to throw one's weight around; to have everything one's own way

noun:

• sword-bearer (subordinate whose job it is to hold their master's sword)
• rikishi carrying a sword who follows the yokozuna to the ring during his ring-entering ceremony - Sumo term

noun / ~する noun:

• removing one's hat
• admiring someone greatly; "taking off one's hat" to someone