noun:

• cleaning dust etc. from rooms; housecleaning
• (the traditional Japanese end-of-the-year, 13th December) big house cleaning; spring cleaning (only not in spring) ➜ 煤掃き

noun:

• dried, smoked pilchard; shavings from dried, smoked pilchard

noun:

• the eight kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death, parting from loved ones, meeting disliked ones, not getting what one seeks, pains of the five skandha) - Buddhism term

godan ~る verb:

• to hesitate; to hold back; to balk; to falter
• to be reluctant; to be unwilling; to begrudge
• to have loose painful bowel movement; to suffer from tenesmus

noun:

• part alternation mark (symbol indicating the following words are taken from a song or that the person saying the words is singing); Unicode U+303D symbol

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to come unstuck from; to peel off; to come off

noun:

• udumbara (mythical Indian plant often identified with the cluster fig, Ficus glomerata)
• something very rare (from the legend that it flowers once in 3000 years)
• Japanese fiber banana flower ➜ 芭蕉
• green lacewing eggs ➜ 草蜉蝣

godan ~く verb:

• to catch fire; to provoke; to catch fire from; to be ignited

noun:

• solar pond (salty pond in which energy from solar energy accumulates in the lower layers, due to lack of convection)

noun:

• red Fuji; when Mt Fuji appears red because of the sun's rays (esp. in the early morning from late summer to early autumn)

noun:

• kōji; malted rice; malt; malt-like material from growing mold on rice, barley, beans, etc. (used as a starter to make sake, miso, soy sauce, etc.)

expression / noun:

• completely empty (of a residence, etc.); vacant; deserted ➜ 蛻【もぬけ】
• body from which the soul has left; corpse
• shed skin (of a snake, insect, etc.) - orig. meaning

noun / ~する noun:

• somersault
• returning from a destination right after arriving there; non-stop round trip; round trip without an overnight stop
• abrupt change of direction

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to roll up; to hoist; to heave up
• to take away; to rip off (e.g. money from someone)
• to blow up (dust)

noun:

• Japanese bondage torture (hands and feet are behind the victim's back, and they are hanged from the ceiling with a rock on their back)

noun:

• fortifying mochi; mochi that improves one's strength
• mochi received from one's parents after giving birth ➜ 汁の餅
• mochi given to a toddler on its first birthday

expression / godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to get worse; to deteriorate; to go from bad to worse; to become worse

adjective:

• unthinkable; unexpected; outrageous; offensive; terrible

expression:

• absolutely not!; not at all!; far from it!; impossible!; preposterous!; what a thing to say!; no way!; bullshit - colloquialism
• don't mention it; you're welcome

noun:

• each of the three being different from the other two; each of the three having his (her) own way - four character idiom

noun:

• open three-of-a-kind (meld); three-of-a-kind made with a tile called from another player - Mahjong term ➜ 刻子

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• each of the three being different from the other two; each of the three having his (her) own way

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to buy (of a government, public agency, etc. from a private citizen); to purchase
• to buy up (all of something)

expression:

• like father, like son; the apple doesn't fall far from the tree; the child of a frog is a frog [literal] - proverb

noun:

• diver's exposure suit; body suits, wet suits, and dry suits; suit which protects divers from exposure and abrasion

noun:

• open three-of-a-kind (meld); three-of-a-kind made with a tile called from another player - Mahjong term ➜ 刻子・明刻子