noun:

• being frustrated because something is not quite as hoped (just as one cannot scratch an itch from outside a shoe); having an itch that one cannot scratch - four character idiom

noun:

• silk cotton (esp. from the Indian silk cotton tree) - From Portuguese "panha"
• Indian silk-cotton tree (Bombax ceiba) ➜ パンヤの木

godan ~く verb:

• to be grounded on; to be based on; to be due to; to originate from ➜ 基づく

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to read to the end; to read through; to read from cover to cover

noun:

• water monitor (Varanus salvator, species of carnivorous monitor lizard common from Sri Lanka in the west to the Philippines in the east); common water monitor ➜ サルバトールモニター

noun:

• departure; setting off; start
• being used up; being consumed; being burnt out
• passage of time; lapse
• rehearsal - abbreviation ➜ 立ち稽古【たちげいこ】
• leading male role in kabuki - abbreviation ➜ 立ち役【たちやく】
• rising from a crouch to charge; initial charge; faceoff - abbreviation - Sumo term ➜ 立会い【たちあい】

prefix:

• verb prefix conveying emphasis and sometimes formality

noun:

• part of the fabric that is wrapped farthest from the skin when wearing a garment that is wrapped in front of one (such as a kimono) ➜ 下前
• percentage; commission ➜ 上米【うわまい】

expression:

• there is only the thickness of the boat's planking between one and perdition; on a boat, one is only an inch or two from a watery grave - proverb

noun:

• walleyes (from London-Paris, i.e. "One eye looks at London, one eye looks at Paris"); squint; divergent strabismus - colloquialism

lower nidan verb (archaic) / intransitive verb:

• to leave; to exit; to go out; to come out; to get out - archaism Antonym: 入る【はいる】
• to leave (on a journey); to depart; to start out; to set out - archaism
• to move forward - archaism
• to come to; to get to; to lead to; to reach - archaism
• to appear; to come out; to emerge; to surface; to come forth; to turn up; to be found; to be detected; to be discovered; to be exposed; to show; to be exhibited; to be on display - archaism
• to appear (in print); to be published; to be announced; to be issued; to be listed; to come out - archaism
• to attend; to participate; to take part; to enter (an event); to play in; to perform - archaism
• to be stated; to be expressed; to come up; to be brought up; to be raised - archaism
• to sell - archaism
• to exceed; to go over - archaism
• to stick out; to protrude - archaism
• to break out; to occur; to start; to originate - archaism
• to be produced - archaism
• to come from; to be derived from - archaism
• to be given; to get; to receive; to be offered; to be provided; to be presented; to be submitted; to be handed in; to be turned in; to be paid - archaism
• to answer (phone, door, etc.); to get - archaism
• to assume (an attitude); to act; to behave - archaism
• to pick up (speed, etc.); to gain - archaism
• to flow (e.g. tears); to run; to bleed - archaism
• to graduate - archaism

noun:

• winning without fighting; method used to win without fighting - four character idiom
• one's own way of doing things (i.e. as different from that of one's instructor)
• Shinto-ryu (school of kenjutsu) - colloquialism ➜ 新当流

expression:

• filial piety begins with not harming one's own body (as one's entire body was given by one's parents) (from The Classic of Filial Piety)

noun:

• mountain and water; landscape (containing hills and rivers)
• landscape picture ［さんすい］ - abbreviation ➜ 山水画
• mountain stream; water that flows down from a mountain
• garden which contains an artificial hill and a pond ［さんすい］ ➜ 築山

noun:

• water monitor (Varanus salvator, species of carnivorous monitor lizard common from Sri Lanka in the west to the Philippines in the east); common water monitor

expression:

• It's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one; They to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep; Poor thinking is futile; Inadequate ideas are worse than none at all - proverb ➜ 下手の考え休むに似たり

expression:

• It's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one; They to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep; Poor thinking is futile; Inadequate ideas are worse than none at all - proverb ➜ 下手な考え休むに似たり

noun:

• carry-back; bringing the ball back to one's own position (in rugby) - Sports term
• carryback; carrying over a deduction or credit from a prior year to the current year (to reduce income tax) - Economics term

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to draw (water, etc.); to scoop up; to pump up; to dip up
• to draw on (ideas) (from subordinates, the public, etc.); to take into account; to adopt

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to work on someone; to influence; to exert influence on; to seek action from; to appeal to

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to begin to work

expression / noun:

• changing seasons; season's transition; transition from one season to the next; turn of the seasons; turning of the seasons ➜ 移り変わり【うつりかわり】

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to become angry or sullen; to take offense; to be miffed
• to come unstuck from; to peel off; to come off; to be taken off

noun:

• sohal surgeonfish (Acanthurus sohal, species of tang found from the Red Sea to the Persian Gulf); Red Sea surgeonfish; sohal tang

noun:

• person or organization (esp. yakuza) in charge of solving problems caused by subordinates - slang
• member of a biker gang driving behind the rest (in charge of keeping the police away from the other members) - slang ➜ 暴走族

noun:

• hanging; something hanging (i.e. a flap, lappet, etc.)
• sauce for dipping, etc. made from soy sauce, mirin, vinegar and dashi - also タレ - usually written using kana alone
• (in kendo) loin guard
• kanji radical enclosing the top-left corner of a character

suffix noun:

• -ass; -head - used after a noun or na-adjective indicating someone's nature; also ったれ - derogatory term

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to save an enemy from trouble instead of taking advantage of their weakness; to show humanity even to one's enemy; to help one's enemy in difficulty - from Uesugi Kenshin sending salt to his enemy, Takeda Shingen, when Takeda's salt supply had been cut off