noun:

• loyalty; devotion; fidelity; faithfulness
• inspector of the Imperial Prosecuting and Investigating Office (ritsuryo system) ➜ 判官【はんがん】・弾正台

noun / ~する noun:

• echo; reverberation

noun:

• spirit of a tree; tree spirit

noun / adjectival noun:

• incompetence; laziness; worthlessness; weakness - colloquialism

noun:

• good-for-nothing; loser; weakling

adverbial noun / noun:

• late winter
• twelfth month of the lunar calendar - obsolete term ➜ 師走

noun:

• secret garden; private garden
• name for female genitalia

noun:

• main building in a Heian palace ➜ 寝殿造
• (historical) main residence of an emperor

noun:

• purple Washington clam (Saxidomus purpurata)
• type of pomelo with red-purple flesh

noun:

• Japanese leek (Allium chinense); Chinese onion
• sour-sweet pickle of Japanese leek - abbreviation

noun:

• light; lamp

noun / suffix noun:

• obsolete unit of luminous intensity (approx. 1.0067 candela)

~する verb (spec.):

• to profit; to benefit from
• to take advantage of; to make good use of

noun:

• momentum - Physics term
• amount of exercise

noun:

• popularization; simplification; explaining in simple language
• adaptation of history for popular reading (esp. Chinese); historical novel writing

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to ask; to enquire; to inquire
• to search; to look for; to look into; to investigate

interjection:

• by no means; never!; well, I never!; you don't say!; certainly (not)

noun / ~の noun:

• something unexpected; emergency ➜ まさかの時

noun:

• currently; for the time being; presently; for now - archaism

adverb / ~の noun:

• indeed; really; truly; unexpectedly - obscure term ➜ 本当に

noun / ~の noun:

• large part; greater part; majority
• people in general; general public; public at large

adverb:

• mostly; for the most part; almost; nearly
• probably; maybe; perhaps

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to pity; to sympathize with; to sympathise with; to treat with sympathy; to console; to be kind to; to appreciate
• to tend to (e.g. an injury); to care for; to nurse; to soothe

noun / ~の noun:

• filling a vacancy; supplementation

noun:

• substitute; deputy; alternate; spare

noun:

• dead end; cul-de-sac; blind alley; no through road (i.e. on signage)
• end; end of the road; end point; as far as one can go

noun / adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• end leaves; top leaves; last leaves ［うらば・うれは・すえば］

noun:

• the last descendant; the last days of any age; end; close ［すえば・ばつよう・まつよう］

expression:

• forming; comprising; making up ➜ 為す【なす】

adverb / interjection:

• why?; for what reason; how; in what way; for what purpose; what for ➜ 如何して【どうして】

suffix:

• far from; anything but; not at all
• let alone; to say nothing of; not to speak of; much less

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to stir; to mix ➜ 混ぜ返す
• to banter; to make fun of (what a person says); to stir up; to jeer at; to interfere (when one talks) ➜ 混ぜ返す

noun / ~の noun:

• sacrum; sacral bone
• hermitry; appearance of an hermit; unworldliness; unusual physique; outstanding appearance ［仙骨］

noun / adjectival noun:

• slowness; inertness
• inability; lack of talent; dullness; stupidity

noun:

• humble and honorific expressions; polite speech - Linguistics term ➜ 謙譲語【けんじょうご】・敬語【けいご】
• honorific; term of respect; polite expression; honorific language - Linguistics term ➜ 敬語【けいご】