noun:

• according to (depending on) one's ability; if one is good (competent, talented) enough - four character idiom

noun:

• comedian who plays a lover's part; man who is both handsome and fun - halfway between 二枚目 and 三枚目 - four character idiom

noun:

• bonze; monk
• monk's dwelling ［ぼう］
• boy; sonny - vocative
• I; me ［ぼう］ - used by male children

suffix:

• little ［ぼう］ - after name; familiar form of address - familiar language
• person who is ... ［ぼう］ - often preceded by ん

noun:

• insoluble azo dye that is cooled with ice during dyeing; ice color ➜ 氷染染料・ナフトール染料【ナフトールせんりょう】

noun:

• new type depression; depression where one is depressed only when at work

noun:

• new type depression; depression where one is depressed only when at work

noun / ~の noun:

• acting cool; pretending to be a better person that one is; pretentious (person) - colloquialism - Kansai dialect

noun:

• pseudo-foreign company; company based abroad but whose main country of business is Japan - Law term ➜ 外国会社

adjectival noun:

• methodical; precise; meticulous; scrupulous; regular; punctual

noun:

• wooden post that has been carved to have a rounded corner with grooves running along either side of it

adverb:

• as if; as it were; as though - usu. as あたかものようだ, あたかものごとし, etc.
• right then; just then; at that moment

noun / ~する noun:

• hit it off with (a person); find a kindred spirit in (a person); sympathy; mutual understanding - four character idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to bring calamity upon oneself; to put your foot in it; to dig your own grave - idiom

expression:

• one's word is worth 1,000 pieces of gold; a promise should be kept at all cost - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• (one's) master
• Lord (Christian ref. to Jesus or God) ［しゅ］
• the main thing; the majority; the primary concern ［しゅ］ ➜ 主たる・主として

noun:

• Western style residences built mostly for early foreign settlers during the end of the Shogunate and the Meiji era

expression:

• spare the rod and spoil the child; if you love your children, send them out into the world [literal] - proverb

noun:

• Keien period (between the end of the Russo-Japanese War and the Taisho Political Crisis, approx. 1905-1912 CE)

noun:

• children's haircut having hair in the rear that reaches the nape of the neck - archaism

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to say it out loud; to yell out; to emphasize ➜ 声を大にする

expression:

• zip it (when used to others); I'll shut up (when used by oneself); button (one's) lips - colloquialism ➜ チャック

noun:

• territories in the vicinity of the capital and under direct imperial rule; (in Japanese history) the five kuni in the immediate vicinity of Kyoto

noun:

• teething fever
• developmental fever; fever that brings with it an intellectual or psycho-developmental growth spurt

~する verb (spec.) / transitive:

• to use (public property) as if it belonged to oneself; to misappropriate; to appropriate; to embezzle
• to act selfishly - archaism

noun:

• winning wrestler who remains ringside in case his involvement is needed in pre-bout rituals - Sumo term

adverb / ~の noun:

• strongly hoping or requesting (of something that is difficult to be brought to fruition)