expression / godan ~す verb:

• to straighten oneself; to straighten one's clothes and one's posture; to adopt a more serious attitude - idiom

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to attend on; to wait upon; to accompany; to escort and wait on; to chaperone

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to tell again and again; to repeat; to refrain; to turn up; to turn down

noun:

• temple name (a two-character posthumous name given to Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese royalty)
• name given to a mausoleum (or shrine, etc.)

noun:

• town order (Edo period); order issued by a shogun or daimyo affecting a whole town, and passed on by town officials

noun:

• cooking over a second fire to prevent contamination from one's everyday fire for performing Shinto rites; cooking over a second fire to prevent contamination from mourning people, menstruating women, etc.

noun:

• telephone appointment; arranging meetings and appointments in advance by phone - abbreviation
• cold-calling to get potential customers to agree to meet a salesman; carrying out market surveys by phone

noun:

• cause and effect; karma; retribution; an evil cause producing an evil effect - four character idiom

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to tuck one's tail between one's legs; to admit defeat; to turn tail (and run) - idiom

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to trap (into a difficult situation); to put (in a fix); to throw (e.g. into turmoil); to trick (into doing); to lure (into a trap); to frame (for a crime) - usu. 陥れる
• to capture (a castle, fortress, etc.); to take; to reduce - usu. 陥れる
• to drop (something) into - orig. meaning; usu. 落とし入れる

noun:

• homely woman (esp. one with a small low nose, high flat forehead, and bulging cheeks); plain woman - derogatory term ➜ お多福・ひょっとこ
• soba in soup with slices of boiled fish paste, shiitake mushrooms, greens, seaweed, etc. - abbreviation ➜ お亀蕎麦

noun:

• metallic foil cut into strips or other shapes to form decorative motifs ➜ 切り金
• cutting a thin sheet of metal into shapes and affixing it with lacquer forming natural features (e.g. clouds) ➜ 切り金

noun / ~する noun:

• intake (e.g. of salt); ingestion
• absorption (e.g. of new knowledge); adoption (e.g. of foreign culture); assimilation
• reception and protection - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• coordinate; co-ordinate; coordination
• matching (e.g. clothes, accessories, furniture, colours)

noun:

• coordinated outfit (clothes and accessories); ensemble
• coordinates (items of clothing, furniture, etc. designed to be used together)

expression / godan -いく／-ゆく verb (spec.):

• to go on a trip; to go out to play; to go and visit (a friend) ➜ 遊びに来る

noun / ~する noun:

• happy family circle; sitting in a family circle and enjoying conversation; harmony in a family - four character idiom

noun:

• moratorium; period of grace; extension (of time, e.g. to make payments); cessation (for a period, e.g. nuclear testing)
• postponement (of social responsibility); immaturity; not having developed emotional maturity; mental state of a young person who does not want to become an adult ➜ モラトリアム人間【モラトリアムにんげん】

noun:

• road; path; street; route - abbreviation ➜ 道【みち】
• way; set of practices; rules for conducting oneself ➜ 道【みち】
• Buddhist teachings
• Taoism
• modern administrative region of Japan (Hokkaido)
• historical administrative region of Japan (Tokaido, Tosando, etc.)
• province (Tang-era administrative region of China)
• province (modern administrative region of Korea)

noun:

• red eyes; bloodshot eyes
• red-eye ➜ 赤目現象
• red mullet (Chelon haematocheilus) - usually written using kana alone ➜ 赤目魚
• facial gesture of pulling one's eyelid down and sticking out one's tongue

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be cloying; to be sick and tired with; to be disgusted with; to get up someone's nose
• to stink

noun:

• comparing and adjusting; reconciling; knocking into shape; bouncing of ideas, opinions, etc. off each other to obtain a fine-tuned integrated whole
• lapping; precision surface finishing; mating by rubbing together - Engineering term
• margination - usually written using kana alone - Medicine term

~と adverb / adverb:

• ticktock - onomatopoeia
• chinking (e.g. of a hammer against rock); knocking; clicking; clacking; clattering - onomatopoeia

~の noun / adjectival noun:

• dry and hard; (frozen) stiff - onomatopoeia
• hidebound; die-hard; stubborn; obstinate; bigoted - onomatopoeia
• scared stiff; tense; nervous; frightened - onomatopoeia

noun:

• gatekeeper (in suicide prevention); person who prevents others from committing suicide (by noticing they are depressed and talking to them about it, etc.)
• gatekeeper (in media, networking, etc.)

noun:

• sexagenary cycle (60-year cycle of 12 animal zodiac and 5 elements in Chinese astrology)
• 12-year Chinese zodiac

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to take out; to take a handful of; to grab and throw
• to turn someone out (of house, room, etc.)