noun:

• confirmation of someone's safety; ascertainment of someone's safety

noun:

• check of someone's ability; test of someone's ability

expression / adjective:

• fresh in one's mind; fresh in one's memory

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to stimulate one's appetite; to whet one's appetite

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to lose one's composure; to lose one's temper

expression / ichidan verb:

• to regain one's breath; to catch one's breath

godan ~つ verb / transitive:

• to set one's mind on doing; to get the idea of doing; to make up one's mind

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to straighten up one's back (e.g. stand up straight, sit up straight); to hold one's head high

expression:

• smooth words make smooth ways; it's not what you say, it's how you say it - proverb

noun:

• Gould's monitor (Varanus gouldii, species of carnivorous monitor lizard native to Australia); sand goanna; sand monitor; Gould's goanna

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to redraw (a line)
• to catch (a cold) again
• to consult (a reference) again

noun:

• sleeve (esp. of a kimono); pocket of sleeve ➜ 袂を分かつ
• vicinity (esp. of a bridge)
• foot of a mountain; base of a mountain

expression:

• what's done is done; that's water under the bridge; it is no use crying over spilt milk; spilt water won't go back into its tray [literal] - proverb

expression / ichidan verb:

• to compare and contrast two alternatives; to weigh the relative merits of A and B; to weigh one's options
• to try to have it both ways; to try to sit on two stools ➜ 両天秤を掛ける

ichidan verb:

• to put something on someone's back; to make someone carry something ➜ 負う
• to lay responsibility on someone; to charge someone with a duty
• to inflict injury on someone

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to harm oneself in an attempt to harm someone else; to spit at the heavens and have one's spit land back on one's face [literal] - proverb ➜ 天に唾する

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to be awarded (e.g. a prize); to be given an award; to receive (e.g. a title)
• to be gifted or endowed (e.g. with a talent)
• to be blessed (e.g. with a child)
• to be initiated (e.g. into a secret)

noun:

• armpit; under one's arm; side; flank
• beside; close to; near; by - also written as 傍, 側
• aside; to the side; away; out of the way
• off-track; off-topic
• deuteragonist; supporting role - usu. written ワキ in Noh
• second verse (in a linked series of poems) - abbreviation ➜ 脇句

noun / suffix:

• (a) stop (e.g. in a timber joint, or at the end of a kanji stroke)
• remaining (e.g. poste-restante)
• forty-five degree angle ［留め］

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to have a nightmare
• to make a noise during a nightmare

noun:

• free action; free activity; acting at one's own discretion; taking one's own course; free hand; independent action

noun:

• financially scraping by; meagre existence (meager); hand to mouth existence
• living one's life without plan; living life day-by-day; taking life one day at a time

noun:

• cutting a person's sidelocks; evenly cut sidelocks (symbol of adulthood for noblewomen in the Heian era); ritual of cutting the sidelocks (coming-of-age ceremony for women from about 1568-1867) - archaism

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to feel dizzy; to have blood rush to one's head
• to lose one's cool
• to be obsessed; to be infatuated
• to become conceited

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to bake; to plate; to print; to fire (e.g. pottery); to stain
• to burn into one's memory; to sear into one's consciousness