noun:

• native Japanese kanji (esp. used during the Edo period) - archaism ➜ 国字
• made-up kanji; Chinese character of one's own creation
• creating a character with a group of people ➜ 人文字

noun:

• daruma; tumbling doll; round, red-painted good-luck doll in the shape of Bodhidharma, with a blank eye to be completed when a person's wish is granted
• Bodhidharma
• prostitute

noun:

• seducer; smooth talker; ladies' man; playboy; playgirl

noun / ~する noun:

• picking up women (on the street) - usu. written as ナンパ - usually written using kana alone - colloquialism ➜ 逆ナン

noun:

• moderate party; moderate ➜ 硬派
• social story (in a newspaper, etc.); society columnist (of a newspaper)
• bearish trader; bear

noun:

• pivot hinge (using extensions on the top & bottom of a door that fit into cavities in the frame)
• sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut) ➜ 猿

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to read (someone's) mind; to read between the lines
• to read (a calibration, a tape, etc.); to read (out)

noun:

• ancestral spirit; collective of ancestral spirits which have lost their individualities
• ancestor deified as a kami; spirit of a kami

noun:

• thin, soft membrane inside the tip of a bamboo culm; silky inner covering at the tip of a bamboo shoot ➜ 絹皮【きぬかわ】

noun / ~する noun:

• branch family; cadet family; setting up a branch family
• leaving one's employer to set up a new shop with the same name ➜ 暖簾分け

noun:

• separate house - archaism

noun:

• orca (Orcinus orca); killer whale; grampus
• mythical carp with the head of a lion and the body of a fish (auspicious protectors of well-being) ［しゃち］ - abbreviation ➜ 鯱【しゃちほこ】

noun / ~の noun:

• ideal
• ideal in a ring (i.e. subset of a ring closed under addition and multiplication by elements of the ambient ring) - Mathematics term

~する verb (spec.):

• to lose (a chance); to miss (a chance)
• to overlook; to omit; to forget
• to deviate

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• station vendor; selling (newspapers, etc.) at a train station; item sold at a train station

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to let loose (e.g. a fart)
• to utter (e.g. a lie) - vulgar
• to do - vulgar

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to act as an opposite; to form a counterpart; to act as a twin

noun:

• pig's snout; nose resembling a pig's snout
• snorting like a pig (while laughing)

noun:

• crime of plotting a crime; crime of preparing to commit an offense; preparation of a crime - Law term

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to cast amorous glances at a man (of a woman); to make eyes at; to give (someone) the eye; to make advances

expression:

• there is a tendency; there is a possibility

adverb / ~と adverb:

• with a meaningless laugh; with a hollow laugh - onomatopoeia

adverb:

• in an instant; in a moment; immediately; right away; at once
• suddenly; all of a sudden; all at once

expression:

• to get a tiny share of the profits; to get a small share of what someone is enjoying

expression:

• only a hero can understand a hero; swallows and sparrows can't understand the aspirations of phoenixes and swans [literal] - proverb - four character idiom

expression:

• it's not a problem; it's not a big deal; (person or thing) can be easily beaten or bettered (by one) ➜ 目じゃない

noun / adjectival noun:

• being proven guilty of a crime; having one's guilt for a crime made clear; (the) nature of offense being (becoming) clear - four character idiom

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to write from top to bottom
• to write out (at a stretch); to write without a pause
• to rewrite classical Chinese in Japanese word order