expression / ichidan verb:

• to give oneself to (esp. of a woman to a man); to surrender oneself to

noun / ~する noun:

• losing by being overmatched; being defeated by a stronger opponent
• losing by misusing one's powers; defeat as a result of trying too hard

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to pass the peak (of something); to get through the most difficult part; to be over the worst (e.g. an illness) - idiom
• to cross a pass - orig. meaning

noun:

• red eyes; bloodshot eyes
• red-eye ➜ 赤目現象
• red mullet (Chelon haematocheilus) - usually written using kana alone ➜ 赤目魚
• facial gesture of pulling one's eyelid down and sticking out one's tongue

expression / ichidan verb:

• to pass the peak (of something); to get through the most difficult part; to be over the worst (e.g. an illness) - idiom ➜ 峠を越す
• to cross a pass - orig. meaning

expression / ichidan verb:

• to drag things out; to creep up slowly on the point; to strangle (execute) slowly with a silk cord (instead of quickly with a rope) [literal]

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to take care of - archaism
• to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with - archaism ➜ 持て余す

ichidan verb:

• to be saucy (of children); to be impudent; to be cheeky; to be sassy; to be precocious

expression / adverb:

• by choice; of one's own free will; on one's own initiative; off one's own bat

noun:

• one's own ground; one's own position; one's own area of the field (soccer, rugby, etc.)

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to clasp; to grasp; to grip; to clutch
• to make (nigirizushi, rice ball, etc.); to form; to press into shape; to mold; to mould
• to seize (power, etc.); to take hold of

noun:

• comparing and adjusting; reconciling; knocking into shape; bouncing of ideas, opinions, etc. off each other to obtain a fine-tuned integrated whole
• lapping; precision surface finishing; mating by rubbing together - Engineering term
• margination - usually written using kana alone - Medicine term

noun / suffix noun:

• seat; place; position
• status
• gathering; group
• stand; pedestal; platform
• (historical) trade guild

suffix:

• attaches to the names of theatres, theatrical troupes, and constellations

suffix / counter:

• counter for theatres, deities, Buddhist images, tall mountains, and satokagura songs ➜ 里神楽

noun:

• indigenous person; inhabitant of a country
• local; native ［くにびと］
• local lords and samurai
• daimyo who did not leave his domains to meet the shogun in Kyoto (during the Muromachi period) ［くにうど・くにゅうど］ ➜ ざいこくしゅう

~と adverb / adverb:

• ticktock - onomatopoeia
• chinking (e.g. of a hammer against rock); knocking; clicking; clacking; clattering - onomatopoeia

~の noun / adjectival noun:

• dry and hard; (frozen) stiff - onomatopoeia
• hidebound; die-hard; stubborn; obstinate; bigoted - onomatopoeia
• scared stiff; tense; nervous; frightened - onomatopoeia

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to launch; to shoot up
• (of waves) to dash; to wash up (ashore)
• to finish (e.g. a theater run, sumo tournament); to close
• to report (to boss, etc.)

adjectival noun / adverb / ~する noun:

• sticky - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• thickly (e.g. painted); heavily (applied) - onomatopoeia
• all over (pasting, stamping, etc.) - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• clinging (e.g. of a person); following around; being all over (each other); flirting - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun:

• cliched; hackneyed - colloquialism ➜ べた

noun:

• daruma; tumbling doll; round, red-painted good-luck doll in the shape of Bodhidharma, with a blank eye to be completed when a person's wish is granted
• Bodhidharma
• prostitute

noun:

• seducer; smooth talker; ladies' man; playboy; playgirl

noun / ~する noun:

• picking up women (on the street) - usu. written as ナンパ - usually written using kana alone - colloquialism ➜ 逆ナン

noun:

• moderate party; moderate ➜ 硬派
• social story (in a newspaper, etc.); society columnist (of a newspaper)
• bearish trader; bear

noun / ~する noun:

• drawing away from someone because of their speech or actions; having the mood ruined
• zooming out or backing the camera away to get a wider image (film, TV)

noun:

• pivot hinge (using extensions on the top & bottom of a door that fit into cavities in the frame)
• sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut) ➜ 猿

noun:

• sexagenary cycle (60-year cycle of 12 animal zodiac and 5 elements in Chinese astrology)
• 12-year Chinese zodiac

expression:

• it's no big deal; it's nothing to fret about; it's not like it's the end of the world

noun:

• shiritori; word-chain game; word game in which players must give a word starting with the last syllable of the word given by the previous player

noun:

• Mount Penglai; Penglai Island; enchanted land of perpetual youth from Chinese mythology
• sacred mountain (e.g. Mount Fuji, Mount Kumano, etc.) ➜ 三蓬莱
• Kansai New Year decoration (made from food) - abbreviation ➜ 蓬莱飾り
• Formosa; Taiwan