noun:

• thin, soft membrane inside the tip of a bamboo culm; silky inner covering at the tip of a bamboo shoot ➜ 絹皮【きぬかわ】

noun / ~する noun:

• entering a track (of a train); arrival of a train (at a platform)
• passing the post (horseracing); crossing the finish line

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to operate (e.g. a machine); to handle; to manage; to control; to maneuver; to steer
• to have a good command of (a language); to play proficiently (of a musical instrument)
• to work (a puppet); to pull the strings of a puppet
• to manipulate (a person, public opinion, etc.); to pull the strings; to control from the shadows; to mastermind

noun:

• tone mark; mark placed in one of the four corners of a hanzi to show the tone in Chinese

noun:

• tone mark; mark placed in one of the four corners of a hanzi to show the tone in Chinese ➜ 声点

expression:

• as fast as the wind, as quiet as the forest, as daring as fire, and immovable as the mountain - four character idiom

expression:

• let bygones be bygones; the past is the past, the present is the present [literal] - proverb

noun:

• services performed in perpetuity by a Buddhist temple for the repose of a departed soul - four character idiom

noun:

• euphoria experienced by college students or workplace recruits at the beginning of school or work ➜ 五月病・六月病

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to start the debate; to get the ball rolling; to fire the first shot (fig. only); to start a conversation

noun:

• the world of hungry spirits and the world of animals; three evil worlds hell - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 三悪道【さんあくどう】
• three evils (prostitution, drugs and venereal diseases) ［さんあく］

noun:

• disposition to operate in the red; tendency to have chronic deficits

expression:

• from the start; from the beginning; from the outset

noun:

• seafood; products of the sea; marine products; fruits of the sea ➜ 山の幸

noun:

• top of the foot; instep; dorsum of the foot; dorsum pedis

noun:

• seafood; products of the sea; marine products; fruits of the sea ➜ 山幸

noun:

• first wind of the season (esp. the first wind of autumn) - archaism

noun:

• the Seven Wise Men (of Greece); the Seven Sages of Greece ➜ 七賢

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to go to the bottom of an affair; to inquire into the origin ➜ 糺す

noun:

• long epic song with shamisen accompaniment (developed in Edo in the early 17th century)

expression:

• the style is the man; the style is the man himself - from a quote by Georges-Louis Leclerc - proverb

noun:

• empty air; sky
• shunyata; emptiness; the lack of an immutable intrinsic nature within any phenomenon - Buddhism term
• air force - abbreviation ➜ 空軍

noun / adjectival noun:

• fruitlessness; meaninglessness
• void (one of the five elements) ➜ 五大

~の noun:

• empty (e.g. set) - Mathematics term

noun:

• totally useless (fruitless) effort; wasting time on an impossible task (like trying to scoop up a reflected moon from the bottom of the sea) - four character idiom

noun:

• Naso (genus of tropical marine surgeonfishes in the family Acanthuridae known as unicorn fishes due to a spike protruding from the forehead)

expression:

• what will happen to everyone else if I am not the one who goes? (expression of confidence from someone going out into the world)