expression:

• he who knows, does not speak; he who speaks, does not know; those who know do not talk; those who talk do not know - proverb

lower nidan verb (archaic) / intransitive verb:

• to leave; to exit; to go out; to come out; to get out - archaism Antonym: 入る【はいる】
• to leave (on a journey); to depart; to start out; to set out - archaism
• to move forward - archaism
• to come to; to get to; to lead to; to reach - archaism
• to appear; to come out; to emerge; to surface; to come forth; to turn up; to be found; to be detected; to be discovered; to be exposed; to show; to be exhibited; to be on display - archaism
• to appear (in print); to be published; to be announced; to be issued; to be listed; to come out - archaism
• to attend; to participate; to take part; to enter (an event); to play in; to perform - archaism
• to be stated; to be expressed; to come up; to be brought up; to be raised - archaism
• to sell - archaism
• to exceed; to go over - archaism
• to stick out; to protrude - archaism
• to break out; to occur; to start; to originate - archaism
• to be produced - archaism
• to come from; to be derived from - archaism
• to be given; to get; to receive; to be offered; to be provided; to be presented; to be submitted; to be handed in; to be turned in; to be paid - archaism
• to answer (phone, door, etc.); to get - archaism
• to assume (an attitude); to act; to behave - archaism
• to pick up (speed, etc.); to gain - archaism
• to flow (e.g. tears); to run; to bleed - archaism
• to graduate - archaism

noun:

• driving off birds
• procession held at the New Year to chase away the birds for the year, with children singing songs as the villagers walked from house to house
• female street musician who wore a braided hat and carried a shamisen
• street entertainer who appeared on New Year's eve and performed with a fan

noun:

• someone who made a short trip to America; going to America just long enough for a pee (ref. to short USA trip after WWII to boost one's credentials) - obsolete term - derogatory term ➜ 小便【しょんべん】

noun:

• people who lived in Kyushu in ancient times, and who opposed the state of Yamato

noun:

• lucky person; someone who made a lot of money (e.g. gambling or on the stock market)
• skilled batter; batter on a hot streak - Baseball term
• accident faker; someone who jumps in front of cars on purpose to extort money
• barbershop

expression:

• Defeat is inevitable for one who goes second; Being slow to take action inevitably leads to defeat - four character idiom

noun:

• 7th in a sequence denoted by the iroha system; 7th note in the diatonic scale (used in key names, etc.)

noun:

• person who likes to drink

expression:

• victory goes to the one who makes the first move; being quick to take action leads to victory; the early bird gets the worm - four character idiom

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to start a bout with the turn of a referee's fan - Sumo term

noun:

• skilled engineer (mechanic) who is clumsy in all other matters; person who gets a great kick out of tinkering with anything mechanical - four character idiom

noun:

• man who is uninterested in aggressively pursuing women; peaceable men who don't approach women as potential partners; herbivore [literal]

expression:

• (e.g. to walk, stand, etc., until) one's legs turn to lead; (doing something) until one's legs tire and stiffen

expression:

• accept one who comes to you - proverb ➜ 去る者追わず

expression:

• accept one who comes to you - proverb ➜ 去る者は追わず

noun:

• Parsee; Parsi (adherent of Zoroastrianism, esp. descendants of those who fled to India to escape persecution in Persia)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to rise; to go up; to come up; to ascend; to be raised Antonym: 下がる
• to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to go in
• to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade
• to get out (of water); to come ashore
• to increase - also written as 騰る in ref. to price
• to improve; to make progress
• to be promoted; to advance
• to be made (of profit, etc.)
• to occur (esp. of a favourable result)
• to be adequate (to cover expenses, etc.) - often as 〜で上がる
• to be finished; to be done; to be over
• (of rain) to stop; to lift
• to stop (working properly); to cut out; to give out; to die
• to win (in a card game, etc.)
• to be arrested ［挙がる］
• to turn up (of evidence, etc.) ［挙がる］
• to be deep fried ［揚がる］
• to be spoken loudly
• to get stage fright
• to be offered (to the gods, etc.)
• to go; to visit - humble language
• to eat; to drink - honorific language
• to be listed (as a candidate) - esp. 挙がる
• to serve (in one's master's home)
• to go north - in Kyoto

suffix / godan ~る verb:

• to be complete; to finish - after the -masu stem of a verb ➜ 出来上がる

expression:

• good things come to those who wait - proverb

noun:

• retainer who dares to dissuade his lord

expression:

• everything comes to those who wait - proverb

noun / ~の noun:

• flip; luck-pusher; frivolous person; person who readily chimes in with others; person who gets carried away easily

expression / noun:

• person who tags along; hanger-on; person who follows someone around like a shadow; clingy person; goldfish feces [literal] - idiom

noun:

• good action lead to good rewards; one good turn deserves another - four character idiom

noun:

• person who holds the purse strings; person who minds the cash; safe keeper; treasurer