adverb / ~する noun:

• softly; gently; quietly - onomatopoeia
• secretly; stealthily - onomatopoeia ➜ こっそり

~する noun:

• to leave alone; to leave as it is - onomatopoeia

expression:

• dignified without being overbearing; being dignified, and moreover warm, as such one is gentle ➜ 威ありて猛からず【いありてたけからず】

noun:

• things happening exactly as one pleases (wishes); someone being very attentive to one's wishes - four character idiom

noun:

• whole cake; cake sold whole (as opposed to in individual slices)

suffix / ichidan verb:

• to seem to be ...; to become like ...; to behave as ... ➜ 大人びる・鄙びる

noun:

• object representative of a divine spirit; object to which a spirit is drawn or summoned; object or animal occupied by a kami ➜ 形代

expression:

• widowers are untidy; a man alone soon goes to seed; a man goes to pieces without a woman to look after him - proverb

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to ring an alarm bell
• to sound a warning; to blow a whistle; to warn; to raise the alarm; to send a wake-up call - idiom

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• middle of a month; second third of a month; 11th to 20th day of a month

adverb:

• sound of a small wave hitting the shore; sound of a whip; sound of a slap - onomatopoeia

expression:

• It's a piece of cake; It's a simple task; It's a cinch ➜ 御茶の子【おちゃのこ】

noun:

• noh mask of a grinning, horned demoness (represents a woman's rage and jealousy) ［はんにゃめん］
• dreadful face (esp. of a woman driven mad by jealousy); terrifying facial expression

noun / ~する noun:

• striding; swaggering; strutting
• lording it over others; acting as though one owns the place; throwing one's weight around

expression:

• just as even coarse tea tastes good when fresh, even homely girls look beautiful at the peak of their youth ➜ 番茶も出花

noun:

• feeling of a full stomach after a meal; satisfaction of having a full stomach

particle:

• particle indicating a command - particle always used at sentence-end
• particle indicating mild enthusiasm - often as ことね - female language
• particle indicating a gentle interrogative
• particle used to soften a judgment or conclusion - at sentence end as ことよ

noun:

• sentence
• composition; text; writings
• the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts); academia; literature ➜ 武
• statement - IT term

expression:

• dignified without being overbearing; being dignified, and moreover warm, as such one is gentle ➜ 威有って猛からず【いあってたけからず】

noun:

• savannah monkey (the vervet monkey, green monkey and grivet monkey taken collectively as one species, Cercopithecus aethiops)

noun:

• caves dug as tombs in and around Kamakura during the Kamakura and Muromachi periods

noun:

• precepts given to an adherent prior to being consecrated as an Acharya (in esoteric Buddhism) - Buddhism term ➜ 伝法灌頂・阿闍梨

noun:

• Trump Effect; impact on business of the election of Donald Trump as US president

noun:

• candlelight service (e.g. in a church)
• ceremony during a wedding reception where the bride and the groom go from table to table lighting a candle at each

noun:

• girl-in-training (e.g. a geisha-in-training or a girl who performs miscellaneous tasks in a brothel) - archaism
• brat; scamp; rascal; jackanapes - archaism - derogatory term ➜ 小童【こわっぱ】
• disciple; apprentice - original meaning - archaism

noun:

• priest - used at certain shrines, e.g. Ise, Kamo - Shintō term
• member of one of the four administrative ranks in the ritsuryo system - archaism ➜ 四等官
• government official in charge of a town, esp. in Heian Kyoto - archaism
• prominent member of a town - archaism
• river boatman; captain of a riverboat
• (medieval) harbor manager - archaism
• bandit leader; head of a gang of brigands - archaism