noun:

• equivocation - IT term

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to fade something by overwashing it

noun:

• greeting phrase (in letter, etc.); salutation

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be clear-headed - often 頭が冴えた

godan ~う verb:

• to laugh to scorn

noun:

• sliced deep-fried tofu

adverb:

• everything

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be fond of new things; to hunt after novelties

noun / ~する noun:

• favor; favour ➜ 寵愛

noun:

• undercurrent

noun / ~する noun:

• excavation; digging

noun:

• fourspine sculpin (Cottus kazika)

noun:

• Arita ware (porcelain)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to have a hole; to be pierced (with a hole)

noun:

• one's beloved daughter

noun:

• antigraft law

expression:

• fools use people to pick up things lying at their own feet; stupidity of using people for small things - idiom

noun:

• red poetry ribbon card (in hanafuda) ➜ 花札
• the three red poetry ribbon cards (high-scoring combination in hanafuda)

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to make use of aizuchi; to back-channel; to throw in interjections to show that one is paying attention ➜ 相槌【あいづち】

expression:

• a day in life is better than a thousand days in the afterlife; better one day in this world than a thousand in the next - proverb

noun:

• fried mixture of minced pork, miso, mirin, etc. (Okinawan dish) - from アンダ + ミスー

noun:

• mesh network - IT term

suffix noun / prefix noun / noun:

• food with dressing on it (e.g. salad) - when a suffix, follows a word indicating the type of dressing ➜ 和える

noun:

• sundries

noun:

• red-masked and black-masked gods (folk belief of the Yaeyama Islands); harvest festival celebrating these gods (held in the 6th lunar month)