noun:

• black vinegar, usu. produced from unpolished rice
• charred kelp or shiitake mushrooms ground and mixed with vinegar, used to dress raw fish and vegetables

noun:

• landing place (for aircraft)
• common ground; compromise; agreement; conclusion

noun / ~する noun:

• buying up plots of land by force to resell at a large profit; land sharking
• raising the ground level (with fill)

noun:

• white vinegar; plum vinegar made without perilla ➜ ホワイトビネガー・梅酢【うめず】
• dressing consisting of a dashi-diluted mixture of vinegar, ground sesame, tofu, sugar and salt - Food term

noun:

• hut; shanty; hovel; shack ➜ 小屋
• house built directly into the ground with no supporting stones

noun:

• paper for fans or parasols (cut in a fan shape)
• ground paper; backing paper

noun:

• grinding; cracking (e.g. wheat, barley)
• ground barley; cracked barley - abbreviation ➜ 碾き割り麦

noun:

• free markets and open guilds - abbreviation ➜ 楽市楽座
• way of sitting on the ground with the sole of both feet pressed together

noun:

• sliding feet; shuffling (one's feet)
• moving legs forward with feet never leaving the ground (exercise) - Sumo term

noun / ~する noun:

• reclamation (e.g. wasteland); cultivation; development
• pioneering; opening up (e.g. new market); breaking new ground; trailblazing

noun:

• texture; grain
• one's skin (lacking makeup, etc.); natural skin; bare skin; scalp
• surface of the earth; bare ground
• surface of a sword blade

noun:

• examination hall; examination room
• laboratory; experimental station; testing ground

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to become loose; to slacken (e.g. rope)
• to become less tense; to relax; to let one's guard down
• to slacken (e.g. coldness, supervision); to become lax
• to become softer (e.g. ground, facial expression); (of ice) to partially melt
• to decrease (e.g. speed)
• (of a market price) to go down slightly

noun:

• red bean paste; red bean jam; anko - Food term ➜ 餡こ
• kudzu sauce - Food term ➜ 葛餡
• filling (of a dumpling, bun, etc., e.g. ground meat, vegetables, bean paste) - Food term
• filling (generally); a substance wrapped in something else (e.g. cushion stuffing) ➜ 餡子

noun:

• Japanese white pine (Pinus parviflora)
• small pine (esp. one pulled from the ground during "ne-no-hi-no-asobi") ➜ 子の日の松

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to stab; to thrust (into)
• to plant (in the ground); to stick upright

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to stab; to thrust (into)
• to plant (in the ground); to stick upright

noun:

• the empress, the empress dowager and the grand empress dowager ➜ 三后
• emperor's second consort
• empress; palace of the empress
• building of a Shinto shrine built on middle ground
• demesne of the imperial palace ➜ 皇居

noun:

• tangent point; point of contact - Mathematics term
• contact (electrical, etc.)
• point of agreement; common ground; interaction

adverb / ~と adverb:

• in a crowd; in droves; in a stream; in succession - onomatopoeia
• crawling (of insects); swarming - onomatopoeia
• dragging (e.g. along the ground); trailing; stretching out - onomatopoeia

noun / suffix:

• stuffing; packing - づめ when a suffix

noun:

• end (esp. the foot of a bridge)
• lowest-ranking guest at tea ceremony
• tea master
• endgame (esp. in shogi or used figuratively)
• sweet eel sauce - abbreviation
• middle-aged woman - archaism

suffix noun:

• appointment to a particular workplace
• using as the sole ground of judgement (judgment)
• continuing; keep doing for period of time - after the -masu stem of a verb