noun:

• matamata (species of freshwater turtle, Chelus fimbriata)

godan -いく／-ゆく verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to flee; to take flight
• to be ruined; to go down in the world
• to settle down (e.g. in one location)

expression / ~する verb (spec.):

• to qualify (as); to have the qualifications (for ...); to be entitled to; to have a claim (for)

godan ~つ verb / transitive:

• to have two things (at the same time) (e.g. good and bad points); to also have something (in addition to something else)

noun:

• someone whose kanji-writing ability has suffered due to overreliance on the kana-to-kanji conversion systems used to input Japanese text on a computer - IT term

noun / ~する noun:

• eating with one's fingers
• snitching food; snatched food; secret eating; food snatched and eaten without the meal starting
• embezzlement; misappropriation; exploiting something
• flirting

noun:

• humble language in which an action or object is not directed toward the listener (or a third party); humble language used as a courtesy ➜ 謙譲語Ｉ

noun:

• S; s
• south - abbreviation
• sulfur - abbreviation ➜ 硫黄

prefix:

• nth year in the Shōwa era (1926.12.25-1989.1.7) - abbreviation ➜ 昭和

noun:

• small - abbreviation
• second - abbreviation
• subject (grammar) - abbreviation ➜ 主語
• sadist; sadistic - abbreviation Antonym: Ｍ
• sister; female partner in a homosexual relationship - abbreviation

noun:

• scarlet kadsura (Kadsura japonica) ➜ 実葛【さねかずら】
• white sash tied around the head, with ends hanging down and tucked into belt, worn in kyogen to indicate a female character being played by a man

godan ~す verb:

• to use one thing for several purposes; to use the same thing on multiple occasions
• to work someone hard; to order around; to boss

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to kick the bucket; to drop dead; to die; to croak - colloquialism
• to be pooped; to be exhausted; to be knackered

suffix / particle:

• approximately; about; around; or so - also written as 位
• to (about) the extent that; (almost) enough that; so ... that ...; at least
• as ... as ...; like

noun:

• one's registered domicile (as recorded in the family register); one's legal domicile (as opposed to where one lives) ➜ 戸籍【こせき】

adverb:

• hourly; from one minute to the next; from hour to hour; moment by moment; with each passing moment - four character idiom

expression:

• if it's alright; if you don't mind my asking; if it's all the same to you ➜ 差し支え【さしつかえ】

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to be in time for
• to serve (suit, meet) the purpose; to be good enough; to be enough

noun / adverb:

• hourly; from hour to hour; moment by moment; momently; from one minute to the next; with each passing moment - four character idiom

expression:

• autumn with the sky clear and blue, and horses growing stout [literal]; autumn comes with harvest time and clear weather - proverb

noun:

• Northern Limit Line; North Limit Line; NLL; demarcation line in the Yellow Sea between North Korea and South Korea

noun:

• designated organized crime group; designated criminal organisation; designated boryokudan; designated yakuza group; group officially listed as criminal by the National Police Agency ➜ 暴力団

noun:

• Suica (rechargeable prepaid IC card that can be used as a train pass in the greater Tokyo, Osaka and Sendai regions and also as electric money in some stores) ➜ パスモ

noun:

• lint (as in a clothes dryer or a pocket); waste thread; fibers, such as might wrap around the gears in small mechanisms and cause them to jam; fluff ➜ 綿ぼこり

expression:

• it does not mean that ...; I don't mean that ...; it is not the case that... ➜ 訳【わけ】

noun / ~する noun:

• first ride (in a new vehicle, in the new year, etc.)

noun:

• base-fare zone; starting fare; base fare

noun / ~する noun:

• playing with something with one's fingers
• searching with one's fingers (e.g. in the dark)