pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about something/someone close to the speaker (including the speaker), or about ideas expressed by the speaker); like this - Hiroshima dialect ➜ こんな

pre-noun adjectival:

• this (something or someone close to the speaker (including the speaker), or ideas expressed by the speaker) ➜ 何の【どの】・此れ・其の・彼の

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to break by stepping on; to trample; to stomp on; to stamp through

godan ~る verb:

• to walk across; to travel on foot ➜ 踏破【とうは】

noun:

• whistling through one's fingers; whistle made by sticking one's fingers in one's mouth and blowing

noun:

• classical form of i-adjective inflection formed by contraction of the "ku" adverbial form with the classical verb "ari" ("aru")

noun:

• man who drives a woman around for free; man used by a woman for his car - slang

expression:

• even the unskilled can succeed by a fluke given enough tries; even a poor marksman will hit the target with enough shots [literal] - proverb ➜ 下手な鉄砲も数撃てば当たる

noun:

• member (of a group led by a kumigashira); member (of a fire brigade)
• muntin; mullion; member; fret

noun / ~する noun:

• failing to live up to one's name; being beaten by one's name

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be eaten; to be bitten (e.g. by bugs) ➜ 食う
• to be outdone; to be upstaged

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to cut off the head of a sleeping person; to assassinate someone while he sleeps
• to catch someone off his guard by setting traps

noun:

• performing solo (by oneself); having the stage to oneself; being in sole command; eclipsing (outshining) the others; field of activity in which one is unrivaled (unrivalled) - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• conditions; strings attached; restriction; restrictions; controls

noun:

• something that has a cord or string attached (e.g. clothes)
• having a lover; lover - of a woman
• criminal; someone bound by ropes ➜ 縄付き

noun:

• (unscrupulous) business practices based on an appeal to one's social conscience; (unscrupulous) sales methods used by someone falsely claiming to represent a charitable (social welfare) organization - four character idiom

expression / noun:

• red string of fate; in Chinese-Japanese folklore, fated lovers were said to be joined by an unseen red string, tied around one little finger of each

noun:

• pushing something out; extrusion
• presence; appearance
• run walked in - Baseball term
• pushing one's opponent out by pressing one's hands up against them - Sumo term

noun:

• tax-free small-sum savings system (often used by the elderly and the disabled); non-tax plan for small savings

expression:

• even the unskilled can succeed by a fluke given enough tries; even a poor marksman will hit the target with enough shots [literal] - proverb ➜ 下手な鉄砲も数撃ちゃ当たる

noun / ~する noun:

• return to the United States

noun:

• term used to refer to Japanese-American children (nisei) who were sent by their parents to Japan before WW2 to receive their schooling

ichidan verb:

• to make do with; to manage with; to make shift
• to get (something) done in time; to have ready (by) ➜ 間に合う

noun:

• mekuri karuta (card game popular in the late Edo period)
• hanafuda; Japanese playing cards (12 suits of 4 cards, each suit representing a month indicated by a flower) ➜ 花札

noun:

• lightning strike; thunderbolt; bolt of lightning

~する noun:

• to strike (lightning); to be struck by lightning

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to do oneself; to do by oneself
• to start work (on); to commence ➜ 手をつける

noun:

• dance where a female dancer dresses up as a man (late Heian to early Kamakura period)
• noh dance performed by a man without a mask

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to startle someone; to make someone jump out of their skin; to take someone by surprise; to pull someone's butt hair [literal] - idiom ➜ 尻毛