noun:

• Acanthurus (type genus of surgeonfishes and tangs in the family Acanthuridae which have a pair of sharp spines on either side of the base of the tail)

expression:

• if you do a favor for somebody, you will get a return favor; if a fish is friendly toward water, water will be kind to the fish too [literal]; you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours - proverb ➜ 魚心あれば水心

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

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to extract (e.g. a passage from a book); to make an excerpt

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to outwit; to outsmart; to counterplot; to defeat - idiom ➜ 裏かく
• to pierce something all the way through

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to find out the truth; to ascertain; to clarify; to confirm; to verify

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

• to go on a trip; to go out to play; to go and visit (a friend) ➜ 遊びに来る

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to dish up; to fill (a bowl) with
• to pile up; to heap up; to fill up; to stack up
• to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to prescribe
• to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)
• to mark out (e.g. scale); to graduate (e.g. thermometer)
• to exaggerate; to apply heavy makeup - slang

noun:

• in-house; (on) the grounds; (in) the premises; hall; theatre; theater Antonym: 場外

noun:

• journey; trip; travels

noun / adverbial noun:

• during the journey; on the way; while travelling

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hand down; to pass on (story or tradition)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be right on target; to strike it rich

ichidan verb:

• to relate at great length; to dwell eloquently (on)

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

• to subsist; to keep on living

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to affect adversely; to have a negative influence (on) ➜ 悪影響

godan ~る verb:

• to cancel (plans, etc.); to give up (on using) - colloquialism ➜ 没する

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to kneel down on one knee; to genuflect ➜ 突く【つく】

godan ~る verb:

• to come to depend on someone's kindness - obscure term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to put on airs; to assume importance ➜ 勿体ぶる【もったいぶる】

noun / ~する noun:

• holding on to; sticking to

noun / ~の noun:

• batik (cloth)

noun:

• loincloth; waist cloth

noun:

• nankeen (cloth)

noun:

• hemp cloth

noun:

• cloth bag