noun:

• 24 Hours of Le Mans; Le Mans 24-Hour Race

noun:

• bad deed which ultimately results in the creation of a good Buddhist - Buddhism term
• older person conducting a funeral service for a younger relative, in particular, a parent for a child

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to commiserate; to pity; to have mercy on; to sympathize with; to sympathise with
• to enjoy the beauty of; to appreciate (e.g. the moon, flowers) ［哀れむ］ - archaism

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to write down (what someone says); to take down dictation; to take notes (e.g. of a lecture)
• to copy out (a text)

noun:

• one who is obsessed with (getting into, holding on to) political power; one who is obsessed with the idea of taking over government - four character idiom

noun:

• joint venture of government and business; business venture financed jointly by the public and private sectors; semi-public sector; third sector [literal]

noun:

• thing that reminds one of a particular season
• poem about natural scenery; poem about a particular season

noun:

• maternity and gynaecology department (gynecology); department of obstetrics and gynaecology (gynecology)

noun:

• body odor; body odour; personal odor; personal odour; characteristic (of someone)

noun:

• third year of high school; third-year high-school student ➜ 高校

noun:

• (large number of people, esp. students) singing and dancing around a bonfire at night - From English "fire storm"

noun:

• private school that allows students to advance from one stage of education to the next, often kindergarten to university, without taking entrance exams en route; "escalator school" - colloquialism ➜ エスカレーター学校

noun:

• private school that allows students to advance from one stage of education to the next, often kindergarten to university, without taking entrance exams en route; escalator school [literal] - colloquialism ➜ エスカレーター校

noun:

• man; person
• human being; mankind; people
• human (Homo sapiens); humans as a species - usually written using kana alone
• character; personality
• man of talent; true man
• another person; other people; others
• adult

expression / prefix:

• to allow oneself to ...; to take the liberty of ... - with noun+する or noun+をverb

expression:

• it is presumed that; (I, we) presume that
• on one's own accord; by one's arbitrary decision ➜ 勝手に

expression:

• family members should fall into line with the head of the family even if his taste is a little odd, like wearing a red eboshi, which is ordinarily black - proverb ➜ 烏帽子

expression / ichidan verb:

• to kill an enemy soldier before the start of a battle to raise spirits
• to kill viciously
• to victimize; to torment; to lay into; to give (someone) hell; to vilify

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to spoil someone's start; to kill someone's enthusiasm; to take the wind out of someone's sails

noun:

• married couple; spouses; husband and wife; couple; pair

prefix noun:

• his and hers; pair of objects, one larger (for man), one smaller (for woman) ［めおと］ ➜ 夫婦茶碗

noun:

• beast (esp. one used for its meat, such as a boar or a deer) - archaism
• hunting (of animals such as boar, deer, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ 獣狩り

noun:

• place containing a Buddhist image
• place containing a buddha (e.g. the pure land) ➜ 極楽・浄土
• independent workshop of Buddhist sculptors (from the Heian period onward) ➜ 造仏所

noun:

• interview with leading player in a game (esp. baseball); player-of-the-game interview - From English "hero interview"

expression / ichidan verb:

• to twist a thread
• to put all one's skill (into doing something); to do something to the best of one's ability - idiom - abbreviation ➜ 腕によりをかける

noun:

• Man of the Year, referring to a man born in a year with the same Chinese zodiac sign as the current year

noun / adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• end leaves; top leaves; last leaves ［うらば・うれは・すえば］

noun:

• the last descendant; the last days of any age; end; close ［すえば・ばつよう・まつよう］