noun:

• little shop; small shop; small store
• my shop ［しょうてん］ - humble language
• low class whorehouse in Fujiwara (Edo period); low class brothel ［こみせ］
• passage formed under the eaves of houses after heavy snowfalls (Tōhoku region) ［こみせ］

noun:

• bottle of whiskey (whisky) that a bar customer buys, writes his name on, keeps on a shelf at the bar, and drinks little by little on successive visits - From English "keep bottle"

noun:

• young men who are not competitive as in the traditional male stereotype, including in the avid pursuit of money and sex, and who may also be kind, co-operative and family-oriented ➜ 草食男子【そうしょくだんし】

noun:

• peacherine; hybrid of a peach and a nectarine; cross between a peach and a nectarine

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to have a taste for; to be fond of; to have an interest in (e.g. a hobby)
• to be modest; to be prudent

godan ~う verb:

• to pray that one avoids disaster or illness; to pray - archaism
• to pray for the death or misfortune of another; to curse
• to treat illness with prayer

expression / adjective:

• it goes without saying; there is no need to say so, but of course; it is needless to say; it need scarcely be said

noun:

• wearing a kasaya; wearing an article of clothing in the same manner as a kasaya (i.e. draped over one shoulder) ➜ 袈裟
• slashing a sword diagonally from the shoulder ➜ 袈裟切り

expression:

• all pain, no gain; doing no good and a lot of harm; having no redeeming features; being a complete disadvantage; a hundred harms and not a single gain [literal] - idiom

noun:

• spring rain that falls around the time that flowers bloom; spring rain that hastens the blooming of flowers

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to cling to; to hold on to; to hold fast to
• to set about doing; to begin; to commence; to undertake
• to take hold of; to possess; to haunt - of an illness, demon, etc.
• to approach (a person); to deal with (someone)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to sink deeply into one's mind; to come home to; to go to one's heart
• to pierce one's body (e.g. of wind, cold, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• going in and out; entering and exiting

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• visiting regularly; frequenting; having regular dealings with

noun:

• income and expenditure; incomings and outgoings
• increase and decrease; surplus and deficit; fluctuation
• fight; trouble; quarrel; dispute
• indentations (e.g. of a coastline)

noun:

• number crossword (var. of kanji crossword puzzle with numbers where squares with the same number contain the same kanji)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to do (something) to spite (someone); to rebuke indirectly; to make an insinuation; to have a dig at
• to make a display of affection (for each other); to show off a relationship

expression / ichidan verb:

• to feel exhausted (after having been stressed); to feel spent; to feel relieved (from stress)
• to become stale (i.e. of a carbonated beverage); to go flat; to lose flavor; to lose flavour

pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about something or someone distant from both speaker and listener, or about a situation unfamiliar to both speaker and listener); so; that; sort of ➜ こんな・そんな・どんな

noun:

• large room
• green room; waiting room for performers when off stage

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• junior actor; actor of small parts

noun:

• large hospital room (for several patients); hospital ward

noun:

• cannot allow (oneself) to live (with someone) under the canopy of heaven; cannot allow (the sworn enemy) to live in this world; irreconcilable (enemy) - four character idiom

noun:

• tool for scrubbing wood to give it texture, traditionally made of dried grass bound together by hemp cord
• scrubbing wood to give it texture

pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about something or someone distant from both speaker and listener, or about a situation unfamiliar to both speaker and listener); so; that; sort of - Hiroshima dialect ➜ あんな

noun:

• Homo sapiens idaltu; extinct subspecies of Homo Sapiens

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be equal to the task; to be up to the job; to be capable of filling the post

noun:

• horizontal (as opposed to vertical); lying down ➜ 横になる
• side-to-side (as opposed to front-to-back); width; breadth ➜ 首を横に振る
• side (of a box, etc.)
• beside; aside; next to
• unconnected ➜ 横から口を挟む

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to take on; to undertake; to accept; to take charge of; to assume responsibility for
• to take over; to inherit
• to guarantee; to vouch for
• to contract (a disease)