adjectival noun:

• methodical; precise; meticulous; scrupulous; regular; punctual

noun:

• wooden post that has been carved to have a rounded corner with grooves running along either side of it

noun:

• gap; space
• break; interlude; interval ［すき］
• chink (in one's armor, armour); chance; opportunity; weak spot ［すき・げき・ひま］
• breach (of a relationship between people) ［げき・ひま］

noun:

• Edo-period form of torture in which criminals were stuffed into straw bags with their heads exposed, piled together, and whipped (commonly used on Christians)

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to step on; to tread on; to trample on
• to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to visit
• to experience; to undergo
• to follow (rules, principles, etc.); to go through (e.g. formalities); to complete
• to estimate; to guess; to judge; to value; to appraise
• to rhyme ➜ 韻を踏む
• to succeed to (e.g. the throne)

godan ~ぶ verb:

• to occur to; to remind of; to come to mind

adverb:

• please; kindly; I beg of you ➜ 何卒
• by all means; feel free; you are welcome
• here you are - previously written as 何卒

expression / adverb:

• best regards; please remember me; please treat me favorably (favourably); please take care of - pun on 宜しく; orig. used by young bike-riding delinquents; now oft. joc. - slang ➜ 宜しく

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to take advantage of; to impose on
• to make an entry (in an account book)

noun:

• shot (in films)
• shot (of alcohol)
• hitting a ball (e.g. in tennis)

noun / ~する noun:

• shoot (in basketball)

noun:

• go-on; Wu reading; on reading of a kanji based on 5th and 6th century Chinese ➜ 漢音【かんおん】・唐音【とうおん】・呉【ご】

noun:

• floor space index; FSI; floor area ratio; FAR; ratio of building size to lot; plot ratio

noun:

• marimo (variety of algae, Cladophora aegagropila); round green alga; Cladophora ball; lake ball; moss ball

expression:

• one must constantly be on one's guard with ...; one cannot be too careful of ...

noun:

• style of polite speech in Japanese (with sentences ending in "desu" and verbs ending in "masu")

noun:

• style of polite speech in Japanese (with sentences ending in "desu" and verbs ending in "masu") ➜ です体

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be recognized (by someone of higher status); to be noticed; to get attention

noun:

• senior priest (of a Shinto shrine, below chief priest and deputy chief priest) - Shintō term ➜ 宮司・神主
• grasshopper; locust - obscure term

noun:

• safe, easy childbirth - abbreviation
• guardian bodhisattva, buddha or deity of children or childbirth (esp. Ksitigarbha or Avalokitesvara) ➜ 子安観音・子安地蔵

noun:

• coming out; emerging
• being born into (a certain family); being a native of (a particular place)

noun:

• large-flowered cypripedium (species of lady's slipper, Cypripedium macranthos, esp. Cypripedium macranthos var. speciosum)

noun:

• streamlined spinefoot (Siganus argenteus, species of Indo-Pacific rabbitfish); Roman-nose spinefoot; forktail rabbitfish; rabbitface spinefoot

~の noun / noun:

• longish; moderately long ➜ 長め

noun:

• stretcher; long side of timber (etc.), or a timber placed lengthwise - Architecture term
• long road - archaism

noun:

• disaster countermeasures office (temporary structure in case of emergency); headquarters for disaster control; disaster response headquarters

noun:

• citron tea ➜ 柚子
• jelly-like concentrate of sweetened citron peel used to make citron tea ➜ 柚子

adverb:

• noisily; clamorously; boisterously - onomatopoeia
• incessantly (complaining, pestering, etc.); going on and on; making a fuss (of something); playing up - onomatopoeia
• loudly (crying); wailing; bawling; howling - onomatopoeia