suffix / adjectival noun:

• -like; sort of; similar to; resembling - colloquialism

expression / adjectival noun / adverb:

• what kind; what sort; how; in what way - Kansai dialect ➜ どんな・如何【どう】・どの様に【どのように】

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to classify; to sort out; to sift through

adjectival noun:

• like this; this sort; this way

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to separate and discard; to sieve and sort; to wash out (impurities, etc.) - obscure term

adverb / noun:

• whatever; what; what sort of; any kind of
• nothing whatever (with neg. verb)

pre-noun adjectival:

• such; like that; that sort of; very

expression / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• roundish; sort of round

expression:

• what kind of business; what sort of matter

~の noun:

• certain; some kind of; some sort of; of sorts

noun:

• something like that; that sort of thing
• something natural; something plausible

pre-noun adjectival:

• what kind of; whatever sort of

adverb:

• no matter what; however much

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• perfunctory; going-through-the-motions-sort of (invitation, gift, etc.) - four character idiom

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• what kind; what sort

expression / ichidan verb:

• to rearrange; to reorder; to move around; to sort; to collate

pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about the actions of the listener, or about ideas expressed or understood by the listener); like that; that sort of ➜ あんな・こんな・どんな

pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about something or someone distant from both speaker and listener, or about a situation unfamiliar to both speaker and listener); so; that; sort of ➜ こんな・そんな・どんな

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to divide (into); to split (into); to part; to separate; to divide up; to classify; to sort out; to divide out
• to share; to distribute; to deal out; to dish out
• to distinguish; to discriminate; to differentiate (between)
• to break up (a fight); to mediate
• to call a draw; to tie
• to push one's way through (a crowd)
• to sell - also written as 頒ける

pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about the actions of the listener, or about ideas expressed or understood by the listener); like that; that sort of - Hiroshima dialect ➜ そんな

pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about something or someone distant from both speaker and listener, or about a situation unfamiliar to both speaker and listener); so; that; sort of - Hiroshima dialect ➜ あんな

pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about the actions of the listener, or about ideas expressed or understood by the listener); like that; that sort of - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ そんな

noun / ~の noun:

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

adverb:

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

adverb / ~の noun:

• some; any; in any way; of some kind; of some sort

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to handle well; to handle deftly
• to deal with; to manage; to settle; to sort; to process
• to prepare (meat or fish) for cooking; to dress (meat, etc.); to cut and trim (fish)
• to sell out (completely); to dispose of (all stock)
• to untangle; to disentangle; to part; to arrange (e.g. the hem of a kimono)

expression / noun / ~の noun:

• this way (of doing); this method
• this sort (of thing); this type