godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to shake; to tremble; to sway; to flicker
• to be unsettled; to be unstable; to fluctuate; to waver (e.g. between options); to vacillate; to seesaw

~くる verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to arrive

~くる verb (spec.) / intransitive verb / auxiliary verb:

• to come back; to do ... and come back ➜ 行って来る
• to come to be; to become; to get; to grow; to continue

~くる verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to come from; to be caused by; to derive from
• to come to (i.e. "when it comes to spinach ...") ➜ と来たら

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to drive in (e.g. nail, stake); to hammer in
• to hit (a ball, etc.); to drive; to smash
• to fire into (e.g. a crowd); to launch (e.g. missiles); to lob (e.g. grenades) ➜ 撃ち込む
• to input (data); to enter
• to devote oneself to; to go heart and soul into; to throw oneself into; to go head over heels for
• to practice hitting (baseball, tennis, etc.) - Sports term
• to hit (an opponent in kendo, boxing, etc.); to get a blow in - Martial Arts term
• to invade one's opponent's territory (in the game of go); to place a stone in an opponent's formation
• to pour (concrete, etc.) into a form

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to put on airs; to act big; to throw one's weight about; to be overbearing; to be domineering; to be bossy; to be pushy; to be proud; to be haughty; to be arrogant; to swagger; to boast; to brag

godan ~す verb:

• to pole (a boat); to punt (a boat); to swim with the tide

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to spare oneself; to spare oneself the trouble ➜ 骨を惜しむ
• to nullify someone's efforts - as 骨を盗むまい, 骨を盗まず, etc. - archaism

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to give an advantage; to enjoy an advantage; to turn the tables (on)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hang; to suspend; to wear (e.g. decoration)
• to lower; to reduce; to bring down
• to demote; to move back; to pull back
• to clear (plates); to remove (food, etc. from table or altar)

noun:

• ruby - esp. ルビー
• ruby character; small hiragana or katakana readings of kanji usually above or to the side of the kanji (esp. used by printers and in ref. to printed material) - esp. ルビ
• Ruby (programming language) ［ルビー］ - IT term

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to swing; to wield (physically); to exert ➜ 槍を振るう
• to exercise (e.g. power, ability); to exhibit; to display; to wield (metaphorically) ➜ 威を振るう
• to flourish; to prosper; to thrive

~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to touch; to come in contact with; to border on; to adjoin; to be adjacent; to be close
• to receive (e.g. visitor); to attend to; to serve; to take care of; to look after; to deal with; to see
• to receive (news); to get; to hear
• to encounter; to come across
• to be tangent to - Mathematics term

~する verb (spec.) / transitive:

• to make touch; to bring into contact with; to bring adjacent to; to bring close; to connect

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to be aware of; to know; to be conscious of; to cognize; to cognise
• to notice; to feel
• to understand; to comprehend; to grasp
• to remember; to be acquainted with (a procedure)
• to experience; to go through; to learn
• to be acquainted with (a person); to get to know
• to concern

noun:

• various forms of arts (e.g. acrobatics, magic, puppetry, sarugaku acrobatics performance) ➜ 猿楽【さるがく】
• miscellaneous songs popular from the end of the Heian period to the Kamakura period ➜ 歌謡

noun:

• lucky-number request (the person who is the Nth visitor to a web site gets to make a request, e.g. for a custom drawing, where N is a special number like 10000) - from キリ番 and リクエスト - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ キリ番・リクエスト

~の noun / noun:

• unevenly cropped (hair); badly cropped - likening to a tiger's fur pattern

noun:

• wigless head; head of natural hair
• intelligence; comprehension; smarts

~する verb (irregular):

• to do; to carry out; to perform
• to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into)
• to serve as; to act as; to work as
• to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
• to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as - as 〜にする,〜とする
• to decide on; to choose - as 〜にする

~する verb (irregular) / intransitive verb:

• to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.) - as 〜がする
• to be (in a state, condition, etc.)
• to be worth; to cost
• to pass (of time); to elapse

~する verb (irregular) / transitive:

• to place, or raise, person A to a post or status B - as AをBにする
• to transform A to B; to make A into B; to exchange A for B - as AをBにする
• to make use of A for B; to view A as B; to handle A as if it were B - as AをBにする
• to feel A about B - as AをBにする

suffix / ~する verb (irregular):

• verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs")

auxiliary verb / ~する verb (irregular):

• creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go") ➜ お願いします・御
• to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to; to attempt to - as 〜うとする,〜ようとする ➜ とする

noun:

• black hair
• black-haired horse

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to rise (suddenly) in the world (to a higher position)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to say by mistake; to make a slip of the tongue

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to say by mistake; to make a slip of the tongue

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to raise the reputation of one's family; to found a house

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be troublesome; to require the aid and labour of others

expression / ichidan verb:

• to give up (something as hopeless); to throw in the towel - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• investigation to determine the cause (of); tracing something back to its origin