noun:

• turnip-shaped whistle made of hollowed-out wood or deer horn (attached to an arrow to sound when fired) - abbreviation ➜ 蕪
• arrow with such a whistle attached ➜ 鏑矢

noun:

• little spinefoot (Siganus spinus, species of Indo-West Pacific rabbitfish); black spinefoot; black trevally; blue-spotted trevally; spiny rabbitfish

noun:

• barred spinefoot (Siganus doliatus, species of Western Pacific rabbitfish); barred rabbitfish

adjectival noun:

• safe; secure; sound; problem-free; without fear; all right; alright; OK; okay

adverb:

• certainly; surely; undoubtedly

interjection / adjectival noun:

• no thanks; I'm good; that's alright - colloquialism

noun:

• great man; fine figure of a man ［だいじょうぶ］ - archaism ➜ 大丈夫【だいじょうふ】

noun:

• between (e.g. two people); face to face
• hindrance; impediment
• arrhythmic section of recitative in noh music - usually written using kana alone - Music term

prefix:

• prefix used for stress or emphasis

counter:

• counter for traditional dance songs

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to put on top of another
• to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate

godan ~ぬ verb / ~ぬ verb (irregular) / intransitive verb:

• to go home - Kansai dialect
• to go; to leave - archaism

~ぬ verb (irregular) / intransitive verb:

• to pass (of time) - archaism
• to die - archaism
• to go bad; to rot - archaism

noun:

• relocation (of a facility); moving establishment

~する noun:

• to relocate; to move into place; to put into place; to adapt; to affix; to install

noun:

• ridge of earth between rice fields
• ridge between grooves in threshold or lintel
• footpath between rice fields; causeway - abbreviation ➜ 畦道

noun:

• sitz bath; sitting bath; bath for the lower half of the body
• lower pool (e.g. in an onsen); lower bath

noun:

• this world; this life
• the free world (outside of prison, the army, red light district, etc.) - colloquialism
• this corrupt world; present world - Buddhism term

noun:

• white return; white-paper income-tax return; type of income tax return filing which does not require maintaining accounting books ➜ 青色申告

godan ~る verb:

• to be in high spirits; to be full of vigor (vigour); to be enthusiastic; to be eager; to stretch to breaking point

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to stagnate; to be delayed; to be left undone
• to be overdue (of a payment); to fall into arrears; to be outstanding

noun:

• time for reporting to work
• time one leaves home to go to work
• working hours; number of hours worked

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to buy all (of something) one can get one's hands on; to buy up; to scoop up

noun:

• shaved head; person with a shaved head - From English "skinhead"
• skinhead; shaved-headed member of a subculture often associated with Neo-nazism

expression / adjective:

• to neither itch nor feel pain; to not be affected by something; to not feel the effects of something

expression:

• need not (verb); (not) have to; expressing absence of obligation or necessity - after neg. stem of verb
• need not have; need not exist ➜ 無い

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to pull from both ends; to pull from both sides; to play tug of war

noun:

• large, perforated, turnip-shaped arrowhead cover made of Japanese bigleaf magnolia or paulownia; harmless arrow affixed with such a cover (that whistles when shot and is used to drive off evil spirits) - abbr. of 響目

noun:

• year-end gift ➜ お歳暮
• end of the year; year end

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to smell; to smell of; to have a smell ➜ 臭いがする【においがする】

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to taste; to taste of; to have a taste

expression:

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