noun:

• family affairs; family business
• steward in charge of the affairs of a samurai family (middle ages)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to lose hair; to become bald
• to become bare (e.g. a mountain becomes bare of trees)

noun / ~の noun:

• homo; homosexual (esp. a male); homosexuality (esp. male-male) - abbreviation ➜ ホモセクシュアル
• homozygote - abbreviation ➜ ホモ接合体
• homogenization - abbreviation ➜ ホモジナイズ
• Homo (genus of primates incl. modern humans) - From Latin

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to draw (a bow) to the limit
• to pull tight; to squeeze tight; to clasp
• to strain (voice)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to cavil at a person's words; to use somebody's words to trip him up

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to make someone realize (e.g. their mistake); to bring (something) home to someone; to teach someone a lesson ➜ 思い知らせる

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to impersonate someone; to go under a false name; to make fraudulent use of someone's name ➜ 騙る【かたる】

noun:

• cord used to tuck up the sleeves of a kimono
• sash (worn across chest, e.g. by election candidate or relay runners)
• wrapper band on books, CDs, etc. ➜ 帯紙・帯【おび】

noun:

• three shop system; system employed by pachinko parlours of using separate shops to exchange prizes for cash as a way of circumventing Japan's gambling laws

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to encourage (someone); to cheer (someone) up; to give someone a charge; to empower ➜ 力をつける・力づく

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to see; to witness; to observe; to catch sight of; to get a glimpse of; to encounter

noun:

• mud-slinging (e.g. in a political campaign); mud-slinging match; smear campaign; mud wrestle

noun / ~する noun:

• consecration (of a person or thing, in Catholicism); sanctification; prayer of sanctification; ritual of consecration

noun / ~の noun:

• some; any; (a) little; of some kind; of some sort

adverb:

• please
• anyway; anyhow; at any rate; after all

noun / ~する noun:

• hit; base hit; safe hit; single - Baseball term
• hit; success
• hit (e.g. boxing, hockey); blow - Sports term
• hit (i.e. as a search result) - IT term

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to dispel; to clear away; to refresh (oneself)
• to accomplish a goal
• to make it sunny; to make clouds disappear - archaism

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to make someone realize (e.g. their mistake); to bring (something) home to someone; to teach someone a lesson

noun:

• lost work; lost writings
• partially lost work; literary fragment; work that survives through quotations
• work of a superior quality

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

• to do for real; to do in real life; to carry (a story) into actual practice

ichidan verb:

• to bind together (e.g. the pages of a book); to sew up; to tape together; to stitch together

expression / noun:

• why-why analysis; method of questioning that leads to the identification of the root cause(s) of a problem

adjective:

• thin - in ref. to objects, not to people
• pale; light; faint
• watery; thin; dilute
• weak (taste, etc.); little (affection, etc.) not much (of a presence)
• slim (probability, etc.); small
• sparse; patchy; scattered

noun:

• zigzag pattern; zigzag formation
• steps down from a pier
• pathway covered by extended eaves to protect from snow
• large saw used by lumberjacks

noun:

• fountain effect (theory that high sales in the basement of a department store lead to increased sales in the upper levels as well)

noun:

• Azuma coat; type of coat worn over a kimono; popular in the middle of the Meiji era