noun:

• draining blood from a live fish (from above the gills and at the base of the tail) to keep it fresh ［いけじめ］
• fasting fish for several days to preserve flavour and quality (and reduce mortality during transport) - esp. いけしめ
• killing fish in a fishtank (immediately before cooking); fish killed in a fishtank - esp. いけしめ

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb / transitive:

• to give one's name (as); to introduce oneself (as)
• to claim to be; to call oneself; to wear the title of
• to reveal oneself (as); to admit to being

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to adopt as one's name; to take (a name)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to call out the goods one is selling - archaism

noun:

• star; any light-emitting (or reflecting) heavenly body (except for the sun and the moon)
• offender; perpetrator - police slang - slang
• star point (in go); hoshi; intersection marked with a dot
• circular symbol (said to be shaped like a shining star)
• bullseye
• one's star (out of the nine stars); the star that determines one's fate ➜ 九星
• small dot; spot
• point; score - Sumo term

noun:

• deja vu; something already seen or experienced; feeling of having seen or experienced something at least once before - From French

noun / counter:

• swing; shake; wave; swinging

noun:

• appearance; behaviour - usually written using kana alone
• pretence (pretense); show; pretending (to) - oft. after a noun+の or verb in the dictionary form - usually written using kana alone ➜ 振りをする

noun / ~の noun:

• going to restaurant, hotel etc. without a reservation or introduction - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• move (dance); postures
• lead in (e.g. to a running joke, asking a question); lead up - oft. as フリ - usually written using kana alone ➜ 前振り
• unsewn part of a hanging sleeve on a traditional Japanese woman's garment

suffix / counter:

• counter for swords, blades, etc.

noun:

• not wearing underwear or pants - archaism

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to stop; to turn off - esp. 止める, 停める
• to park - esp. 止める, 停める
• to prevent; to suppress (a cough); to hold back (tears); to hold (one's breath); to relieve (pain) - esp. 止める, 停める
• to stop (someone from doing something); to dissuade; to forbid; to prohibit
• to notice; to be aware of; to concentrate on; to pay attention to; to remember; to bear in mind ➜ 目を留める・気に留める
• to fix (in place); to fasten; to tack; to pin; to nail; to button; to staple - esp. 留める
• to detain; to keep in custody - esp. 留める

noun:

• pouring hot water on oneself before entering the bathtub; hot water poured on oneself before entering the bathtub
• pouring hot water on oneself repeatedly (type of hot-spring cure)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be packed (with); to be full (space, schedule, etc.)
• to be blocked (road, pipe, etc.); to be clogged; to be plugged up ➜ 鼻が詰まる
• to shorten (width, interval, etc.); to shrink (shirt, word form, etc.); to narrow
• to be at a loss; to be hard pressed - often in the form …につまる ➜ 言葉に詰まる・気の詰まる【きのつまる】
• to end up; to be settled ➜ 詰まる所【つまるところ】
• to become a geminate consonant ➜ 促音【そくおん】
• to hit the ball near the handle of the bat - Baseball term

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to rot; to go bad; to decay; to spoil; to fester; to decompose; to turn sour (e.g. milk)
• to corrode; to weather; to crumble
• to become useless; to blunt; to weaken (from lack of practice)
• to become depraved; to be degenerate; to be morally bankrupt; to be corrupt
• to be depressed; to be dispirited; to feel discouraged; to feel down ➜ 気が腐る【きがくさる】

auxiliary verb / godan ~る verb:

• to have the audacity to; to be bastard enough to - after the -masu stem of a verb; indicates scorn or disdain for another's action - usually written using kana alone - Kansai dialect ➜ やがる

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to lose a bet - archaism
• to be drenched; to become sopping wet - archaism

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to thrust (something) into (something); to cram; to stuff; to shove

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to plunge into; to charge into; to rush into; to ram into; to crash into
• to delve into (a matter); to go into depth; to get to the heart (of something)

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to press (someone) about; to point out (e.g. an inconsistency); to question sharply; to grill
• to get involved with; to meddle in; to poke one's nose into ➜ 首を突っ込む

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to riposte; to retort; to quip

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to thrust (something) into (something); to cram; to stuff; to shove ➜ 突っ込む【つっこむ】

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to plunge into; to charge into; to rush into; to ram into; to crash into ➜ 突っ込む【つっこむ】
• to delve into (a matter); to go into depth; to get to the heart (of something) ➜ 突っ込む【つっこむ】

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to press (someone) about; to point out (e.g. an inconsistency); to question sharply; to grill ➜ 突っ込む【つっこむ】
• to get involved with; to meddle in; to poke one's nose into ➜ 突っ込む【つっこむ】

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to riposte; to retort; to quip ➜ 突っ込む【つっこむ】

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to bite into (e.g. rope into skin); to cut into; to dig into (e.g. of fingernails)
• to eat into; to encroach; to make inroads; to penetrate (e.g. a market); to break into (e.g. first place); to erode; to cut into (e.g. time, savings)
• to be wedged (i.e. underwear pulled from the back, driving it between the buttocks) - vulgar

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to leave (in someone's keeping); to put (in someone's care); to place (in someone's custody); to entrust (someone) with; to deposit
• to put (someone) in charge of; to leave (a matter) in someone's hands; to let (someone) decide
• to lean on; to put one's weight on

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to deal with (a person); to treat; to handle; to take care of; to entertain
• to deal with (a problem); to handle; to manage
• to operate (e.g. a machine); to handle; to work
• to deal in; to sell
• to cover (a topic); to treat; to discuss; to take up
• to treat A as B - as ＡをＢとして扱う
• to mediate (an argument) - archaism
• to be too much for one; to find unmanageable - archaism
• to gossip - archaism

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to calm down; to compose oneself; to regain presence of mind
• to calm down; to settle down; to die down; to become stable; to abate
• to settle down (in a location, job, etc.); to settle in
• to be settled; to be fixed; to have been reached - of an arrangement, conclusion, etc.
• to harmonize with; to harmonise with; to match; to suit; to fit
• to be unobtrusive; to be quiet; to be subdued - usu. used pronominally as 落ち着いた ➜ 落ち着いた【おちついた】

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to touch; to come in contact with; to border on; to adjoin; to be adjacent; to be close - archaism ➜ 接する【せっする】
• to receive (e.g. visitor); to attend to; to serve; to take care of; to look after; to deal with; to see - archaism
• to receive (news); to get; to hear - archaism
• to encounter; to come across - archaism

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to make touch; to bring into contact with; to bring adjacent to; to bring close; to connect - archaism

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to come out; to fall out; to be omitted; to be missing; to escape; to come loose
• to fade; to discolour
• to wear a hole (e.g. clothes)
• to leave (e.g. a meeting)
• to be clear; to be transparent (e.g. of the sky)
• to be stupid; to be absentminded; to be careless; to be inattentive - usu. as 抜けた or 抜けている
• to exit (a program loop) - IT term

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to go through; to pass through

noun:

• Wu; region in China, south of the lower Yangtze
• Wu; Southern Wu; kingdom in China during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms era (902-937)
• Wu; Eastern Wu; Sun Wu; kingdom in China during the Three Kingdoms era (222-280) ➜ 三国【さんごく】
• Wu; kingdom in China during the Spring and Autumn era (11th c. - 473 BCE)

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to adopt (method, proposal, etc.); to take (measure, course of action, etc.); to decide on
• to pick (e.g. flowers); to gather (e.g. mushrooms); to catch (e.g. insects)
• to extract (e.g. juice); to take (e.g. a sample)
• to assume (an attitude)
• to take on (workers, students); to employ; to hire
• to draw in (e.g. water); to let in (e.g. light from a window)

~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to touch; to come in contact with; to border on; to adjoin; to be adjacent; to be close
• to receive (e.g. visitor); to attend to; to serve; to take care of; to look after; to deal with; to see
• to receive (news); to get; to hear
• to encounter; to come across
• to be tangent to - Mathematics term

~する verb (spec.) / transitive:

• to make touch; to bring into contact with; to bring adjacent to; to bring close; to connect

noun / ~する noun:

• call; summons; paging; curtain call ➜ 呼び出す【よびだす】

noun:

• usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc. - Sumo term
• telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached - abbreviation ➜ 呼び出し電話
• box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse) - archaism ➜ 陸湯
• high-ranking prostitute in the Yoshiwara district (Edo period) - archaism
• unlicensed prostitute in the Fukagawa red-light district (Edo period) - archaism

particle:

• too; also; in addition; as well; (not) either (in a negative sentence)
• both A and B; A as well as B; neither A nor B (in a negative sentence) - as ＡもＢも
• even; as much as; as many as; as far as; as long as; no less than; no fewer than - used for emphasis or to express absence of doubt regarding a quantity, etc.
• even if; even though; although; in spite of - often as 〜ても, 〜でも, 〜とも, etc.

adverb:

• further; more; again; another; the other - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ もう

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

~する verb (spec.) / transitive:

• to entrust (someone) with; to leave (a matter) with someone; to place under someone's care ➜ 託す
• 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

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to pull; to draw; to pull tight
• to string (lines); to run (cable); to stretch
• to pull towards oneself (e.g. someone's sleeve)
• to drag; to haul; to tow
• to lead (e.g. one's followers)
• to take someone somewhere (e.g. a suspect to the police)
• to tempt into joining; to strongly invite to join
• to delay; to prolong
• to lengthen the pronunciation (of a word)
• to quote; to cite; to reference
• to pull the ball - Baseball term
• to wear; to put on