noun:

• yakitori; chicken pieces (or sometimes beef or pork offal) grilled on a skewer
• grilled and skewered bird (esp. sparrow) - obsolete term
• failing to win a single hand during a half-game - Mahjong term

noun:

• light that is said to be emitted from some hair or tuft in Buddha's forehead; ray of light from the tuft of white hair (between the eyebrows) - from 白毫相光 - abbreviation

noun:

• one's father; old man; one's boss

noun:

• man-on-the-street interview; vox populi; vox pop; curbside interview

pre-noun adjectival:

• that (someone or something distant from both speaker and listener, or situation unfamiliar to both speaker and listener) ➜ 何の【どの】・此の・其の・彼【あれ】

expression:

• it's not a problem; it's not a big deal; (person or thing) can be easily beaten or bettered (by one) ➜ 目じゃない

~と adverb / ~する noun:

• warm and fluffy; soft - onomatopoeia
• steamy hot (food); hot and flaky

expression:

• feeling mentally tired; feeling of tired relief or accomplishment after effort or perseverance - Kansai dialect

prefix noun:

• one-man

adjectival noun / ~の noun / noun:

• tyrant; dictatorial person

noun:

• conductorless bus (i.e. having only a driver); conductorless train - abbreviation ➜ ワンマンカー

noun:

• New Year's ceremony in which a hoe is used to break ground in a field lying in a lucky direction ➜ 鍬入れ

noun:

• worker; breadwinner; supporter
• able person; able man; productive worker

noun:

• one's right-hand man; one's trusted henchman

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to get in; to go in; to come in; to flow into; to set; to set in - mainly used in fixed expressions and compound verbs ➜ 入る【はいる】・気に入る・立ち入る

noun:

• man-machine interface; MMI - IT term

noun:

• tinkering; mending pots, pans, kettles
• man and woman walking together; couple walking together - archaism

expression:

• a wise person always follows the right course; a wise man never wavers - four character idiom

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to take (a resource, e.g. time or money) ➜ 時間がかかる

godan ~る verb:

• to hang
• to come into view; to arrive ➜ お目にかかる
• to come under (a contract, a tax)
• to start (engines, motors)
• to attend; to deal with; to handle

godan ~る verb / auxiliary verb:

• to have started to; to be on the verge of

godan ~る verb:

• to overlap (e.g. information in a manual); to cover

godan ~る verb / auxiliary verb:

• to (come) at

godan ~る verb:

• to be fastened ➜ 鍵がかかる
• to be covered (e.g. with dust, a table-cloth, etc.)
• to be caught in ➜ 罠にかかる
• to get a call ➜ 電話が掛かる
• to depend on

noun:

• manager; steward; person next in rank to the chief retainer and in charge of general management and accounting in a samurai family (Edo period) - honorific language ➜ 用人

noun / ~する noun:

• being in someone's service for the first time; participating for the first time
• visiting a shrine (or temple) for the first time

noun / ~する noun:

• retiring high-ranking government officials taking a lucrative job in a private or semi-private corporation
• command (from superior to inferior, government to private sector, etc.); order; imposition
• descent from heaven - orig. meaning

noun / suffix noun:

• taking; taker; collecting; collector; remover; removal

noun:

• last performer of the day (usu. the star performer); last performance of the day
• active partner (e.g. in judo demonstration)

prefix:

• emphatic or formal prefix - before a verb

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

expression:

• a thorn in one's side; a pain in the butt (often someone higher in rank, ability, etc.); a person standing in one's way; a superior who obstructs one's freedom of action ➜ 目の上のこぶ

noun / prefix noun:

• smallness; small item
• short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days) ➜ 小の月
• elementary school - abbreviation ➜ 小学校
• younger or inferior (of two items or people with the same name)
• unit of field area (approx. 400 sq m) - archaism

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to get entangled in; to be involved in; to be embroiled in; to get mixed up in

adverb:

• in one go; in one gulp; in one breath; without stopping; without pausing; without resting; in one sitting; at a stretch; all at once
• immediately; instantly; right away; straight away; straightaway