noun:

• meeting or association of stable masters belonging to the same grouping - Sumo term
• meeting or association of followers of a famous performer (in rakugo, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• discharge (e.g. of water from a dam)
• liberation; stocking (e.g. a river with fish)

noun / ~する noun:

• government service; entering government service
• (of a ronin) finding a new lord or master to serve ➜ 浪人

expression / adjective:

• extremely fond of; having a weakness for; being a sucker for
• having poor discernment skills

noun:

• left-hand match; begins-with match; matching a sub-string with the beginning of a field - IT term ➜ 部分一致・後方一致

godan ~つ verb / intransitive verb:

• to give an address (before a large number of people); to give a forceful speech

noun / ~する noun:

• setting a question (for an exam)
• setting a theme (for composition of poetry)

suffix noun:

• dated (e.g. a letter); date of effect (e.g. a rule change)

noun:

• one kanji in the name of a nobleperson (with a multiple-kanji name) ➜ 偏諱を賜う

expression:

• still having a very small chance; still having a tiny shred of hope - idiom

expression:

• pull yourself together; get a grip; get a hold of yourself; come on

noun:

• letters (characters) indicating the end of a movie (The End, Fin, etc.) - From English "end mark"
• indication of the end (of something)

noun:

• cloud; look of the sky; movement of clouds
• kabuki accessory representing a cloud
• type of strange mist appearing in the sky, used for divination

noun:

• recognition and guarantee, by the shogunate, of ownership of the inherited estate of a samurai who pledged allegiance to it (in the Kamakura and early Muromachi periods) - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• cancellation; writing off (a debt)
• indicating a long sound in kana ➜ 長音【ちょうおん】

noun:

• tug o' war; tug of war

noun / ~する noun:

• abbreviation; simplified form of a character; cutting out some strokes in a character; omitting some passages

ichidan verb:

• to let a person take hold of; to bribe by slipping money into a person's hand

noun:

• alternative name; alternate name
• assumed name of a customer in a brothel (for anonymity)
• stage name

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to be infatuated (with); to be hooked (on); to lose one's heart (on) - as 〜にうつつ...

noun:

• chairman; speaker (e.g. of assembly); president (e.g. of council, senate, etc.); moderator (e.g. of a newsgroup)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to open (a door, etc.); to unwrap (e.g. parcel, package); to unlock ［開ける］
• to open (for business, etc.) ［開ける］
• to empty; to remove; to make space; to make room - esp. 空ける
• to move out; to clear out - esp. 空ける
• to be away from (e.g. one's house); to leave (temporarily) - esp. 空ける

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to dawn; to grow light - esp. 明ける
• to end (of a period, season) - esp. 明ける
• to begin (of the New Year) - esp. 明ける
• to leave (one's schedule) open; to make time (for) - esp. 明ける
• to make (a hole); to open up (a hole)

expression / noun:

• a matter of time; matter of hours; question of time

expression / ichidan verb:

• to have a hard time of it; to have a bitter experience

noun / ~する noun:

• ex-officio questioning; police questioning (of a suspicious person); a police checkup - four character idiom

noun:

• one square on a grid; one cell of a grid