noun:

• Imperial Prosecuting and Investigating Office (1869-1871 CE) ［だんじょうだい］
• Imperial Prosecuting and Investigating Office (under the ritsuryo system) ➜ 律令制

noun:

• blue poetry ribbon card (in hanafuda)
• the three blue poetry ribbon cards (high-scoring combination in hanafuda) ➜ 花札

noun:

• Amitabha (Buddha); Amida - Buddhism term
• ghostleg lottery; ladder lottery; lottery in which participants trace a line across a lattice pattern to determine the winner - abbreviation ➜ 阿弥陀籤【あみだくじ】
• wearing a hat pushed back on one's head - abbreviation ➜ 阿弥陀被り【あみだかぶり】

expression:

• sharp eyes and ears used for collecting information far and wide; having the acumen and shrewd discernment gained by widely-collected information; being well-versed on a subject; books which broaden our knowledge - four character idiom

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to deceive; to falsify; to misrepresent; to cheat; to swindle; to tamper; to juggle; to manipulate
• to dodge; to beg the question (issue, difficulties)
• to varnish over; to gloss over

noun:

• four-color theorem (colour) (theorem stating that any map can be colored such that no two adjacent segments have the same color, if only four colors are used)

expression:

• too much pleasure ruins a man (esp. in reference to spending too much time with geisha and prostitutes); playing the dandy ruins a man - proverb

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to scatter; to sprinkle; to strew
• to distribute (handbills, etc.); to spread (rumours, etc.)
• to give the slip; to throw off; to shake off; to lose

noun:

• legume (esp. edible legumes or their seeds, such as beans, peas, pulses, etc.); beans; peas
• soya bean (Glycine max); soybean; soy ➜ 大豆
• female genitalia (esp. the clitoris) - colloquialism
• kidney - colloquialism - usually written using kana alone - Food term

prefix noun:

• miniature; tiny
• child

godan ~ぐ verb / transitive:

• to row; to scull; to paddle ➜ 舟を漕ぐ
• to pedal (e.g. bicycle)
• to swing (on a swing)
• to operate a hand pump
• to push through (deep snow, the jungle, etc.)

noun:

• (before a) Buddhist altar; before the Buddha
• offering placed on a Buddhist altar; incense money; condolatory offering - oft. as 御~

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make one's story to seem coherent; to adjust one's story to fit the situation ➜ ばつを合わせる

noun:

• bay laurel (Laurus nobilis); bay tree; sweet bay; laurel tree - abbreviation ➜ 月桂樹
• moon; moonlight
• katsura tree on the moon (in Chinese legends) - orig. meaning

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to ring an alarm bell
• to sound a warning; to blow a whistle; to warn; to raise the alarm; to send a wake-up call - idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• active duty; active service
• student taking (university) entrance exams while still enrolled in school; student who passed their university entrance exams on the first try - often as 現役で ➜ 浪人【ろうにん】

expression / adverb:

• at every opportunity; for each and every thing that crops up; with every little thing; whenever possible; whenever the chance arises; at every turn

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to be seized with fear; to be intimidated; to lose one's nerve; to be frightened; to get cold feet; to chicken out; to have the wind up

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to find out; to discover; to notice; to detect
• to select; to pick out
• to look out (from the inside)
• to be wide-eyed (in surprise, anger, etc.)

expression:

• the nail that sticks out gets hammered down; people that stick out too much get punished - proverb ➜ 出る杭は打たれる
• tall trees catch much wind; people that excel at something become disliked - proverb ➜ 出る杭は打たれる

expression:

• the nail that sticks out gets hammered down; people that stick out too much get punished - proverb ➜ 出る釘は打たれる
• tall trees catch much wind; people that excel at something become disliked - proverb ➜ 出る釘は打たれる

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to fling off; to throw off; to case aside; to abandon; to throw to the winds

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to disturb the water; to wake a sleeping dog; to wake a sleeping child [literal]

expression:

• experience is the best teacher; custom makes all things easy; you learn best by doing; practice makes perfect; it is better to grow accustomed than to be taught [literal]

adjectival noun:

• seeming to be for a certain reason; seeming to indicate there are special circumstances; seeming to indicate there is more than meets the eye

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to have something on someone; to catch someone out; to trip someone up; to have evidence; to get a lead - idiom
• to grab by the tail [literal]