noun:

• purple clouds; clouds on which Amida Buddha rides to welcome the spirits of the dead

noun:

• daughter of the home; unmarried woman who owns (the future rights to) a home

noun:

• guide melody (karaoke melody to help the singer hold the tune)

expression / adjective:

• being unable to leave the work at hand; being right in the middle of something - idiom

~の noun:

• (of luggage, etc.) able to be taken into the cabin of the aircraft; carry-on

expression:

• the wolf knows what the ill beast thinks; it takes one to know one - proverb

expression:

• leaving the remaining corrections up to the printer after having finished proofreading; OK with corrections - abbreviation

expression / noun:

• leaving the remaining corrections up to the printer after having finished proofreading; OK with corrections ➜ 責了

noun:

• wait-and-see; sitting on the fence; waiting to see which way the wind blows

noun:

• twisting of the truth in one's writing; playing with text to distort the truth

noun:

• confidential report to the ruler of the country of astronomical events and their astrological interpretation - archaism

noun:

• arranging beforehand to tell the same story; getting the stories straight; coordinating one's stories ➜ 口裏を合わせる

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to knock (someone) to their feet; to knock down
• to send flying; to strike; to fling; to fire
• to drive away (one's sorrows, worries, etc.); to dispel
• to drive at terrific speed; to barrel along

noun:

• sensitivity to the times; sense of the times - four character idiom

noun:

• sense of the times; sensitivity to the times ➜ 時勢感覚

expression:

• it is easier to do something than worry about it; the anxiety that comes from doing nothing is worse than any danger you might face; fear overruns the danger; an attempt is sometimes easier than expected; it is easier to bear (a child) than to worry about it [literal] - proverb

expression / ichidan verb:

• to have grown tense (of a situation); to have become critical (and to be on the verge of a major upheaval)

noun:

• hill; height; knoll; rising ground ［丘・岡・壟］
• bonus points awarded to the winner at the end of a game ［丘・陸符］ - usually written using kana alone - Mahjong term

noun / ~する noun:

• make a choice among many; select the good (desirable, necessary, relevant) and discard the rest; decision to adopt or reject - four character idiom

noun:

• person who estimates the variety and quantity of wood necessary to build a house from looking at the plans

noun:

• sailing windward
• land division in the Ryukyu Kingdom equivalent to modern prefectures (but the size of cities or towns) - obsolete term ➜ 村

noun:

• azuki bean rice gruel eaten on the day of the winter solstice (to chase away demons that spread contagious diseases)

godan ~く verb / transitive / intransitive verb:

• to blow (e.g. wind); to play a wind instrument
• to whistle
• to laugh; to burst into laughter - often as 吹いた - slang ➜ 吹き出す【ふきだす】

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to smelt; to mint
• to brag; to talk big

godan ~る verb:

• to hesitate; to hold back; to balk; to falter
• to be reluctant; to be unwilling; to begrudge
• to have loose painful bowel movement; to suffer from tenesmus

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to knock down; to tear down; to level; to raze
• to crush (e.g. enemy); to throw into confusion
• to refute; to pick apart; to undermine