noun:

• active player; player on the active list

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to agree on; to agree about

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to move forward; to move on

noun:

• stain; spot; smudge; blot; smear; blotch
• spot (on one's skin, e.g. chloasma, liver spot); blemish; discoloration; freckle - esp. シミ ➜ 肝斑

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to continue (for a long time); to occur in succession; to come next (e.g. on TV)

noun:

• reversal; return
• return gift; return favour (favor) ➜ お返し
• barb (on a fishing hook)
• mixture of soy sauce, sugar and mirin

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to raise; to record; to bring up (a matter); to serve (food); to send some on out - Kyōto dialect

expression / ichidan verb:

• to bud; to sprout; to germinate
• to have luck on one's side; to get lucky ➜ 目が出る

noun:

• futon (quilted Japanese-style mattress laid out on the floor)
• round cushion used for Zen meditation (traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves)

noun:

• luminous body like a shooting star
• any bright metal
• sliced fish with the silver skin left on (iwashi, aji, sayori, sanma, kohada, etc.)

expression:

• avoiding unnecessary talk can prevent disaster falling on one; there is safety in silence; the pheasant would not be shot but for its cries [literal] - proverb

noun:

• namahage; folklore demons of the Oga Peninsula (villagers dress up as them on New Year's Eve and frighten children)

noun:

• performance; take; going before an audience or on-air - colloquialism ➜ 本番【ほんばん】
• game; season; crucial moment - colloquialism ➜ 本番【ほんばん】
• actual sexual intercourse (i.e. not simulated); penetration - colloquialism ➜ 本番【ほんばん】

noun:

• fluorescent lamp; fluorescent light
• person who is slow to react; someone slow on the uptake

noun / ~する noun:

• reference; bibliographical reference; consultation; browsing (e.g. when selecting a file to upload on a computer); checking out

noun:

• slipping one's hand beneath the opponent's arm and latching on to the underside of his belt - Sumo term

noun:

• person with a lot of free time on their hands; person of leisure; idler

noun:

• store that has been gone out of business; household that lives without carrying on a business

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to lie on one's back with legs outstretched; to recline
• to get cocky; to be arrogant

noun:

• an event held on the night after the last day of some festival (school festival) often bonfire & dancing ➜ 学園祭

noun:

• cards with stanzas of waka written on them
• card-matching game played with these cards

expression:

• I am not going to fall for that trick; that trick won't work on me ➜ その手【そのて】

noun:

• low-ranking soldier
• graduation; outgrowing; moving on (from) - abbreviation ➜ 卒業
• low-ranking samurai (1870-1872) - abbreviation ➜ 卒族
• death (of a noble, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ 卒去

noun:

• court of law in the Edo period, in which the parties sat on white sand - archaism

noun:

• Kyoto's children
• Kyoto's young people, who are noisy and gossiping on the least pretext