expression:

• sacrifice something small in order to save something great; lose a leg to save one's life; let a large bug live and kill a small one [literal] - proverb

adjectival noun / adverbial noun / noun:

• one cup after another; cup by cup - four character idiom
• to the limit; to the fullest extent; absolutely the limit; the best one can do; breaking even - usually written using kana alone

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)

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

expression / ichidan verb:

• to think about; to send one's heart out to; to give more than a passing thought to; to think of something far away; to think nostalgically upon (esp. one's hometown) ➜ 思いを致す

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to grab a person by his vulnerable spot; to curry favour with one's superior; to curry favor with one's superior

expression / godan ~く verb:

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

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to tie up in a bundle (e.g. straw, hair, bills, letters); to bundle; to sheathe
• to govern; to manage; to control; to administer
• to fold (one's arms); to put together (one's hands) ［つかねる］

noun:

• putting on a knowing air when one only knows the title of the book (play, etc.); pretending to understand the nature of something when one only knows its name - four character idiom

noun:

• nine traditional astrological signs in Onmyōdō, each corresponding to the year of a person's birth and used to create a horoscope ➜ 陰陽道・一白【いっぱく】・二黒【じこく】・三碧【さんぺき】・四緑【しろく】・五黄【ごおう】・六白【ろっぱく】・七赤【しちせき】・八白【はっぱく】・九紫【きゅうし】

noun:

• front company set up to hide someone's true profession by pretending to employ them (often used by call girls) ➜ ダミー会社

particle:

• particle used to indicate the speaker's hope, desire, wish, etc. (e.g. "it would be nice if ...", "I wish there were ...", etc.)

noun:

• rope used to cordon off consecrated areas or as a talisman against evil - abbreviation - Shintō term ➜ 注連縄
• cordoning off; cordoning-off sign - archaism

expression / ~の noun:

• the way it was; the way it used be; as of old; in former times

noun:

• flunitrazepam (hypnotic drug formerly marketed as Rohypnol); roofies (flunitrazepam used as a date-rape drug)

noun:

• cavities in the frame of a door used as part of a pivot hinge ➜ 枢【くるる】
• door

godan ~う verb:

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

~よい adjective:

• good; excellent; fine; nice; pleasant; agreeable - also written 良い ➜ 良い【よい】
• sufficient (can be used to turn down an offer); ready; prepared ➜ 良い【よい】
• profitable (e.g. deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial ➜ 良い【よい】
• OK ➜ 良い【よい】

noun:

• sounding stone; qing; ancient Chinese chime shaped like a chevron (inverted 'v'), orig. of stone, today often metal, in Japan primarily used at Buddhist temples

noun:

• split bamboo; bamboo slat; bamboo split
• noisy bamboo baton used by night watchmen (Edo period)

noun:

• (finger) ring ➜ 指輪
• metal thimble ➜ 指貫【ゆびぬき】
• ring used to constrict a finger to make it small and beautiful - archaism

expression / noun:

• one's last hope; one's only hope; the last hope

noun:

• ancient document; archives; ancient manuscript; paleograph
• document addressed to someone in particular (jargon used in paleography) ➜ 文書【ぶんしょ】

noun:

• simplified form (of a kanji); any of 22 simplified non-joyo kanji variants commonly used in print ➜ 常用漢字