noun:

• signboard depicting scene from a play (usu. outside a theatre)

expression:

• You must lose a fly to catch a trout - idiom

noun:

• running style (of a horse, e.g. a front runner)

noun:

• papercraft sculpture representing a scene akin to a painting

noun:

• storage chest for a suit of armour and a helmet

noun:

• coating a painting with a layer of transparent oil

expression / noun:

• fighting over nothing; making a mountain out of a molehill

expression / noun:

• fighting over nothing; making a mountain out of a molehill - idiom

expression / noun:

• fighting over nothing; making a mountain out of a molehill

expression:

• more than a friend (implies a degree of intimacy)

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to untie; to unfasten; to unwrap; to undo; to unbind; to unpack
• to unsew; to unstitch
• to solve; to work out; to answer
• to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.); to clear up; to remove (suspicion); to appease
• to dissolve (a contract); to cancel; to remove (a prohibition); to lift (a ban); to raise (a siege)
• to release (from duty); to relieve; to dismiss
• to comb (out); to card; to untangle (hair) ➜ 梳く【すく】

noun / suffix noun:

• charge; cost; price
• generation; age; reign
• era - Geology term
• a representative of; on behalf of; for (someone) - after someone's name or title
• used after a phone number to indicate that it is a switchboard number ➜ 代表電話番号

counter:

• counter for decades of ages, eras, etc.
• counter for generations (of inheritors to a throne, etc.)
• proxy application company - abbreviation ➜ 代理申請会社

noun:

• pronoun - used in dictionaries, etc. - abbreviation ➜ 代名詞

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to do (something) to spite (someone); to rebuke indirectly; to make an insinuation; to have a dig at
• to make a display of affection (for each other); to show off a relationship

expression:

• used to create a rhetorical question indicating that the speaker actually believes the opposite is true; emphasizes a determination not to do something by means of a rhetorical question - female language ➜ ものか

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to let go of; to release; to drop
• to part with (e.g. a possession); to relinquish; to spare; to sell
• to send away (e.g. one's child); to let go; to part with
• to temporarily stop working

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to finger; to touch; to play with; to fiddle with; to toy with
• to make changes to; to tinker with; to tamper with ［いじる］
• to dabble in; to do as a hobby; to play around with ［いじる］
• to grope; to feel around (in one's pocket, bag, etc.) ［まさぐる］

particle:

• too; also; in addition; as well; (not) either (in a negative sentence)
• both A and B; A as well as B; neither A nor B (in a negative sentence) - as ＡもＢも
• even; as much as; as many as; as far as; as long as; no less than; no fewer than - used for emphasis or to express absence of doubt regarding a quantity, etc.
• even if; even though; although; in spite of - often as 〜ても, 〜でも, 〜とも, etc.

adverb:

• further; more; again; another; the other - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ もう

noun:

• trying to reach above one's station and failing; trying to accomplish something beyond one's abilities and failing; monkey trying to catch the moon (and drowning) [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• guest room (at a hotel); guest cabin (on a boat); passenger cabin (on a plane)
• drawing room

noun:

• origin of a character
• composition of a Chinese character
• Chinese character from which a kana character is derived

noun:

• before a Buddha or a mortuary tablet ➜ 仏前
• offerings made to Buddha or placed on a mortuary tablet

adverb / ~の noun:

• more or less; somewhat; a little; a few; some

noun:

• amount; quantity

noun / ~する noun:

• boarding (a train, bus, etc.); getting into (e.g. a taxi)

counter:

• indicates position in a sequence ➜ 目【め】

noun:

• divisions of a kabuki performance

noun / ~する noun:

• nomination (of a person to a position); selection; election; assignment; appointment