noun:

• plot; intrigue; scheme
• conspiracy; agreement between two or more people to commit an unlawful act - Law term

noun / ~する noun:

• closing up shop (for the day)
• stopping business; going out of business

noun:

• weather; climatic conditions
• fine weather; clear day
• situation; state of affairs
• sea conditions; good day for sailing

noun / ~する noun:

• percussion; tapping; examining by percussion - Medicine term
• sounding out (someone's intentions); making an approach (about)

noun:

• humanities; liberal arts; social science
• literary course; department of literature

noun / ~する noun:

• national isolation; closing the country (to foreigners) ➜ 開国

noun:

• sakoku; policy of national isolation enacted by the Tokugawa shogunate

godan ~す verb / ~す verb (precursor to modern する) / transitive:

• to entrust (someone) with; to leave (a matter) with someone; to place under someone's care ➜ 託する
• to have someone deliver (a message, parcel, etc.); to send (through someone); to leave (a message) with someone
• to use (something) to express (one's feelings, opinion, etc.); to express in the form of (something)
• to use as a pretext

noun:

• the best one can do; one's best effort

adverbial noun:

• with all one's might; to the best of one's ability

noun:

• attacking a fleeing enemy
• additional attack on a weakened enemy; additional blow to an already unfortunate situation

noun:

• ability; gift; talent; aptitude; genius
• sai; traditional unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml

noun:

• New Year's Day - colloquialism ➜ 元日
• New Year's morning; morning of New Year's Day - orig. meaning

adjectival noun / noun:

• careless; sloppy; faulty

noun:

• using unreliable sources (in a piece of writing); piece of writing with unreliable sources or many errors

noun:

• material
• material properties; quality of material

noun / suffix noun / prefix noun:

• frying; fried food

noun:

• aburaage; thin deep-fried slices of tofu - abbreviation ➜ 油揚げ【あぶらあげ】

noun / ~する noun:

• starting a train (or bus, etc.) before all the passengers are on board
• making a snap decision; starting an action without considering objections to it any longer

noun:

• natural history - abbreviation ➜ 博物学【はくぶつがく】
• wide learning; broad area of learning - orig. meaning

noun:

• lightning
• electric illumination; light from an electric source

noun:

• wild goose
• glans; head of a penis ［かり・カリ］ - abbreviation - colloquialism ➜ 雁首【かりくび】

noun:

• plaster cast; cast - abbreviation ➜ ギプス包帯
• gypsum; plaster-of-paris - From German "Gips"

noun:

• half
• biracial person (esp. half-Japanese); person of mixed parentage - from "half blood" - sensitive

noun:

• hope
• white hope; person of promise

noun:

• winds and clouds; nature; the elements
• situation; state of affairs

noun:

• measuring container; measure
• box (seating at a theatre, etc.)
• square on a grid; cell of a grid - esp. マス
• square bearing block (at the top of a pillar) ［斗］

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to distinguish; to recognize; to recognise; to tell apart; to differentiate (both figuratively and visually)
• to identify (whether an object is positive or negative in some aspect); to know the difference between something of superior and inferior quality (on sight or figuratively)

noun:

• taking over (e.g. store or family's headship)
• subrogation; substitution of one person for another (usu. a creditor)