adverbial noun / temporal noun / ~の noun:

• whole life; a lifetime; all through life; one existence; a generation; an age; the whole world; the era

~の noun:

• (the only, the greatest, etc.) of one's life

noun:

• meeting one's master for the first time (of a new servant); ceremony at which a new servant has his first audience with his new master - archaism

noun / ~の noun:

• the best in the land; the best of its kind in the country; par excellence in the whole country - four character idiom

adverb:

• anywhere; for all time; to the ends of the earth
• through thick and thin; come hell or high water; to the bitter end; to the utmost
• persistently; stubbornly
• in all respects; on every point
• thoroughly; exhaustively

adjectival noun / noun:

• dissatisfaction with the work (role) given to one; feeling oneself above the given work (role)
• not up to the task; (being) out of one's depth - colloquialism ➜ 力不足【ちからぶそく】

noun:

• contest decided by a single round (bout); contest decided by a single roll of dice; one-shot game (contest); make-or-break game - four character idiom

noun:

• contest decided by a single round (bout); contest decided by a single roll of dice; one-shot game (contest); make-or-break game - four character idiom

noun:

• contest decided by a single round (bout); contest decided by a single roll of dice; one-shot game (contest); make-or-break game - four character idiom

noun:

• sohal surgeonfish (Acanthurus sohal, species of tang found from the Red Sea to the Persian Gulf); Red Sea surgeonfish; sohal tang

noun:

• waiting for one tile to finish one's pair and one's hand; waiting for half of one's pair with four melds completed - Mahjong term

noun:

• the system in government offices and business corporations in which draft proposals are prepared by someone in charge of the matter and circulated for collective deliberation and final approval by particular (designated) officials or executives - four character idiom

noun:

• hanging; something hanging (i.e. a flap, lappet, etc.)
• sauce for dipping, etc. made from soy sauce, mirin, vinegar and dashi - also タレ - usually written using kana alone
• (in kendo) loin guard
• kanji radical enclosing the top-left corner of a character

suffix noun:

• -ass; -head - used after a noun or na-adjective indicating someone's nature; also ったれ - derogatory term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to ask for instructions; to ask for someone's opinion; to inquire of
• to invoke an oracle; to consult an oracle

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to gather in large numbers (of people); to hang out (as a large group) ➜ 屯する
• to assemble (as a military unit or posse); to be quartered (in a particular location)

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to gather in large numbers (of people); to hang out (as a large group) - colloquialism ➜ 屯する【たむろする】
• to assemble (as a military unit or posse); to be quartered (in a particular location) - colloquialism ➜ 屯する【たむろする】

adverbial noun:

• just (now, at the moment, etc.); just as; in the act of; as soon as; at the moment that

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to get back to normal; to get back into one's stride; to get back into the swing of it

expression / ichidan verb:

• to think about; to send one's heart out to; to give more than a passing thought to; to think of something far away; to think nostalgically upon (esp. one's hometown) ➜ 思いを致す

godan ~つ verb / intransitive verb:

• to be knotty (of a tree, etc.); to be gnarled
• to be rough and bony (hands, fingers, etc.); to be gnarled; to be knobby

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to cut deep into
• to cut one's way into (an enemy position); to rush on; to raid; to attack
• to press someone hard (e.g. with questions); to get to the heart of (a matter)

noun:

• attitude that with the state as one's boss, normal fiscal accountability can be dispensed with; dependence on the central government; attitude of those who assume their jobs are safe because they are government employees

noun:

• salary supplement, e.g. for work performed at inconvenient times or as overtime allowance usually for so-called exempt workers, i.e. workers who are expected to work a certain number of overtime hours ➜ 割増賃金

expression:

• he has not lived that lives not after death; the great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it; tigers leave their hide when they die; men leave their name [literal] - proverb

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to keep one's temper; to maintain one's composure; to remain calm; to keep presence of mind; to preserve one's equilibrium

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be chipped; to be damaged; to be broken
• to be lacking; to be missing
• to be insufficient; to be short; to be deficient; to be negligent toward
• (of the moon) to wane; to go into eclipse - also 虧ける