noun:

• man who takes his wife's family name and marries into her family; man who is adopted by his wife's family

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to find a clear solution; to come to a clean decision; to give a clear explanation
• to divide

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to poke (repeatedly, lightly); to nudge ➜ 突く【つつく】
• to peck at (one's food); to pick at
• to peck at (someone's faults, etc.)
• to egg on; to put up to

expression:

• one can say more with a look than with ten thousand words; the eyes cannot belie one's true thoughts; the eyes are the windows to the soul; eyes are as eloquent as the tongue - proverb ➜ 物を言う

noun:

• determined purpose
• an incredibly short span of time (i.e. the time occupied by a single thought) - Buddhism term
• a single repetition of a prayer (esp. in Jodo-shu) - Buddhism term ➜ 浄土宗

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to poke (repeatedly, lightly); to nudge
• to peck at (one's food); to pick at
• to peck at (someone's faults, etc.)
• to egg on; to put up to

ichidan verb:

• to scatter; to disperse
• to spend on; to squander (e.g. one's fortune)
• to chase away (e.g. one's worries); to kill (pain)

ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs):

• to scatter; to disperse
• to spend on; to squander (e.g. one's fortune)
• to chase away (e.g. one's worries); to kill (pain)

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to deal with (a person); to treat; to handle; to take care of; to entertain
• to deal with (a problem); to handle; to manage
• to operate (e.g. a machine); to handle; to work
• to deal in; to sell
• to cover (a topic); to treat; to discuss; to take up
• to treat A as B - as ＡをＢとして扱う
• to mediate (an argument) - archaism
• to be too much for one; to find unmanageable - archaism
• to gossip - archaism

godan ~ぶ verb / intransitive verb:

• to stand in a row (e.g. shops on a street); to line in a row; to line - 建ち並ぶ refers to buildings
• to be equal to; to be on a par with ［立ち並ぶ・立並ぶ］

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to wave; to shake; to swing
• to sprinkle; to throw (dice)
• to cast (actor); to allocate (work)
• to turn down (somebody); to reject; to jilt; to dump
• to abandon; to give up; to ruin
• to add kana indicating a reading of a word ➜ 振り仮名
• to slightly change headings; to change directions
• to extract by broiling; to prepare an infusion of; to decoct
• to carry with great vigor (e.g. a portable shrine)
• to bring up a topic; to lead to a topic
• to replace; to substitute
• to set up a joke for somebody else

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to save an enemy from trouble instead of taking advantage of their weakness; to show humanity even to one's enemy; to help one's enemy in difficulty - from Uesugi Kenshin sending salt to his enemy, Takeda Shingen, when Takeda's salt supply had been cut off

noun:

• blow striking with the flat of the sword
• to slap ➜ 平手打ち
• metal flattened by striking
• tape; flat braid
• type of flat ornamental hairpin made of silver and inscribed with a clan's crest or patterns of birds and flowers ➜ 簪

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to take one's place; to take one's position; to go into position; to line up

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to take down (e.g. flag); to launch (e.g. boat); to drop; to lower (e.g. ladder); to let (a person) off; to unload; to discharge
• to drop off (a passenger from a vehicle); to let (a person) off
• to withdraw (cash)
• to wear (clothing) for the first time
• to fillet (e.g. a fish)

noun:

• object representative of a divine spirit; object to which a spirit is drawn or summoned; object or animal occupied by a kami ➜ 形代

expression:

• widowers are untidy; a man alone soon goes to seed; a man goes to pieces without a woman to look after him - proverb

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to ring an alarm bell
• to sound a warning; to blow a whistle; to warn; to raise the alarm; to send a wake-up call - idiom

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• middle of a month; second third of a month; 11th to 20th day of a month

adverb:

• sound of a small wave hitting the shore; sound of a whip; sound of a slap - onomatopoeia

noun:

• feeling of a full stomach after a meal; satisfaction of having a full stomach

particle:

• particle indicating a command - particle always used at sentence-end
• particle indicating mild enthusiasm - often as ことね - female language
• particle indicating a gentle interrogative
• particle used to soften a judgment or conclusion - at sentence end as ことよ

godan ~う verb:

• to lie on one's stomach; to sleep while lying on one's stomach; to crawl on the ground; to sprawl

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to squeeze (to the utmost); to wring out
• to squeeze (money) out of someone; to wring (money) from
• to scold; to criticize severely; to lay into
• to train ruthlessly; to give punishing training
• to strain (one's voice)
• to gather up (a curtain)

expression / adjectival noun:

• woman's word for the sound of feet thumping across a noh theatre; space of noh theatre based on the reach of the sound of feet thumping - female language