noun:

• end of the fiscal year; end of the school year

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to go with the flow; to go with the times - idiom

noun:

• phalanx (phalange) of the hand
• phalanx (phalange) of the foot ➜ 趾骨

noun:

• first sale of the year; first trade of the year ➜ 初売り

noun:

• head of the student council; president of the student council

expression / adverb:

• far away in the distance; in the far distance

noun:

• right crop for the land; suitable crop for the land - four character idiom

noun:

• being under the rule of; being under the government of

noun:

• moon (esp. full moon)
• circle fashioned after the moon
• decorative ring on the chest of a monk's stole ➜ 袈裟
• straw trivet
• white crescent-shaped chest patch of an Asiatic black bear ➜ 月の輪熊

~と adverb / ~たる adjective:

• torrentially; swiftly flowing (water, esp. river); voluminously flowing
• (speak) eloquently; fluently; spout forth (a torrent of speech)
• flood of the times (moving strongly in one direction); current of the times

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to kowtow (to bow from a kneeling position such that the forehead touches the ground); to prostrate oneself; to give a deep, reverent bow

noun:

• appointment or dismissal conjecturally reported in the media (esp. when the conjecture turned out to be wrong); announcement of an appointment that turns out to be mere press speculation - four character idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to get into the swing of (one's work); to hit one's stride
• (for a fish or bird) to put on fat for the winter

adverb / suffix:

• throne; crown; (nobleman's) seat - orig. from 座居, meaning "seat"
• government position; court rank ➜ 位階
• social standing; rank; class; echelon; rung

noun:

• grade (of quality, etc.); level; tier; rank
• digit (e.g. the tens, the hundreds, etc.); place ➜ 桁
• degree; extent; amount ➜ どの位

noun:

• warrior from the eastern parts of Japan - derogatory term - archaism - Kantō dialect
• eastern barbarians; people east of China (from the perspective of China) ［とうい］

expression / ichidan verb:

• to button up wrong; to start from the wrong button
• to bungle up the order - idiom

expression:

• start with the first step; when embarking on a great project, start with immediate steps ➜ 隗より始めよ
• he who first suggests it should be the first to do it ➜ 隗より始めよ

noun:

• type of red brocade originally from the ancient Chinese country of Shu and passed on in Japan
• type of brocade made in Sichuan during the Ming period

expression:

• start with the first step; when embarking on a great project, start with immediate steps - proverb
• he who first suggests it should be the first to do it - proverb

noun:

• presumption of legitimacy; presumption of child in wedlock; presumption that the ex-husband is the father of a woman's child born within 300 days of their divorce - Law term

noun:

• pattern; figure; design
• state; condition
• conjecture of the current situation; the way it seems
• model; pattern; example
• indicates that something seems likely (e.g. rain or storm) - after a noun
• framework (in go); territorial framework; moyo

noun:

• leader; boss
• upper part of a flag
• (Okinawa) bamboo poles with an attached vertical flag and an elaborate display at the top that are used during the annual fertility and thanks-giving festivals

noun / suffix noun:

• angle
• square (or cube)
• bishop - abbreviation - Shōgi term ➜ 角行【かくぎょう】
• third degree (of the Japanese & Chinese pentatonic scale) ➜ 五音
• Chinese "horn" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - Astronomy term ➜ 角宿・二十八宿【にじゅうはっしゅく】・蒼竜【そうりょう】
• jiao (monetary unit of China; one-tenth of a yuan) ➜ 元【げん】

noun:

• young men who are not competitive as in the traditional male stereotype, including in the avid pursuit of money and sex, and who may also be kind, co-operative and family-oriented ➜ 草食男子【そうしょくだんし】

noun:

• the sum of the length, width, and height of a package; length + width + height