godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to turn everything into a joke; to continue joking to the last

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to come to an end; to lower the curtain ➜ 幕を閉じる【まくをとじる】

expression / ~する verb (spec.):

• to defy accepted norms; to go off the rails; to be eccentric

noun:

• Palace of the Dragon King; palace from the story of Urashima Taro (said to be located at the bottom of the sea)

noun:

• Palace of the Dragon King; palace from the story of Urashima Taro (said to be located at the bottom of the sea) ➜ 竜宮【りゅうぐう】

adverbial noun / conjunction:

• etc.; otherwise; besides; in addition; the rest; the others; and so forth - そのた is the more common reading when written

adverb:

• in general; on the whole; for the most part; by and large; almost all

noun:

• big moment (e.g. performance, in the spotlight); gala occasion; (on the) world stage ➜ 晴れの舞台

noun:

• ti; si; 7th note in the tonic solfa representation of the diatonic scale

noun:

• in company; among people ［じんちゅう］ ➜ 人中【ひとなか】
• philtrum; vertical groove between the nose and the upper lip - Anatomy term

noun:

• collectively, the 83 new LDP members of parliament elected in the Sept. 2005 general election ➜ 小泉チルドレン

noun:

• Gion Festival (in Kyoto during the month of July, with high point on the 17th) ➜ 祇園祭

noun:

• Galeocerdo (genus in the family Carcharhinidae whose sole member is the tiger shark)

noun:

• Paracanthurus (genus in the family Acanthuridae whose sole member is the palette surgeonfish)

noun:

• person at a public bath in charge of heating the water and filling the baths

noun:

• dispute over the distribution of water into paddies during the summer (in rural areas) ➜ 水争い

noun:

• first star of the Big Dipper
• top applicant in the civil service examination (Imperial China) - archaism

noun:

• message appended to a note accompanying a gift, requesting the recipient to keep the gift at hand

godan ~る verb:

• to Google (i.e. to search for on the WWW using the Google search engine) - colloquialism

noun / ~する noun:

• replacing the old with the new; the old giving way to the new - four character idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to throw in a shrimp and pull out a whale; to use a sprat to catch a mackerel; to get big returns on a small investment - idiom

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be decided; to be settled
• to look good in (clothes)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to distinguish in writing; to use different writing styles ［書き分ける］
• to draw (identifiably) - usu. 描き分ける

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make oneself understood (in some language)
• to be able to relieve oneself ➜ 用を足す【ようをたす】

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to feel under pressure; to feel impatient; to be in a hurry