noun / ~する noun:

• kneeling with the balls of the feet on the floor and sitting on one's heels ➜ 正座【せいざ】

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to stick into and move around; to dig around in; to pick (i.e. one's teeth)

noun:

• priest - used at certain shrines, e.g. Ise, Kamo - Shintō term
• member of one of the four administrative ranks in the ritsuryo system - archaism ➜ 四等官
• government official in charge of a town, esp. in Heian Kyoto - archaism
• prominent member of a town - archaism
• river boatman; captain of a riverboat
• (medieval) harbor manager - archaism
• bandit leader; head of a gang of brigands - archaism

~する verb (spec.):

• to lose (money, etc.)
• to have wasted one's (time, etc.); to have one's efforts come to naught

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to content oneself with; to be resigned to (one's fate); to be contented (satisfied) with (one's lot)

ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs) / intransitive verb:

• to content oneself with; to be resigned to (one's fate); to be contented (satisfied) with (one's lot)

noun:

• returning to one's parent's house to give birth; giving birth at one's parent's home

noun:

• Boshin War (Japanese civil war between Imperial and shogunate forces, 1868-1869)

noun:

• exposed skin between top of knee-high socks and hemline of skirt - manga slang

noun:

• Treaty of Shimoda (1855); treaty initiating official relations between Russia and Japan

noun / ~の noun:

• sophistication; wordly wisdom

~する noun:

• to lose one's innocence; to get sophisticated; to get to know the world by being in contact with people; to lose one's naivete

noun:

• native Japanese kanji (esp. used during the Edo period) - archaism ➜ 国字
• made-up kanji; Chinese character of one's own creation
• creating a character with a group of people ➜ 人文字

noun / ~する noun:

• branch family; cadet family; setting up a branch family
• leaving one's employer to set up a new shop with the same name ➜ 暖簾分け

noun:

• separate house - archaism

noun:

• being forced to commit seppuku
• to be forced to bear responsibility and resign from one's position ➜ 詰め腹を切らされる

noun:

• calling another player's discarded tile to complete a meld (but not to complete one's hand) - Mahjong term
• declaring a kong or calling a discarded tile to complete a meld - Mahjong term

noun / adjectival noun:

• being proven guilty of a crime; having one's guilt for a crime made clear; (the) nature of offense being (becoming) clear - four character idiom

adjectival noun / noun:

• dissatisfaction with the work (role) given to one; feeling oneself above the given work (role)
• not up to the task; (being) out of one's depth - colloquialism ➜ 力不足【ちからぶそく】

noun / adjectival noun:

• idle and incompetent; accomplishing nothing significant nor being capable of doing so; lacking the talent to do anything but idle away one's time - four character idiom

noun:

• Hexanchidae; family with four species and three genera of cow sharks characterized by either one or two additional pairs of gill slits

adjectival noun / adverbial noun / noun:

• one cup after another; cup by cup - four character idiom
• to the limit; to the fullest extent; absolutely the limit; the best one can do; breaking even - usually written using kana alone

ichidan verb:

• to scatter; to disperse
• to spend on; to squander (e.g. one's fortune)
• to chase away (e.g. one's worries); to kill (pain)

ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs):

• to scatter; to disperse
• to spend on; to squander (e.g. one's fortune)
• to chase away (e.g. one's worries); to kill (pain)

noun:

• with no one upon whom to depend; utter loneliness; the lonely and the helpless; people who have no kith or kin - four character idiom

noun:

• stance with legs in an L-shape, with one leg bent in front and other extended behind (martial arts, traditional theater)

noun:

• pung (or kong) of east tiles when east is both the round wind and one's seat wind (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 連風牌