noun:

• period of prohibition of remarriage; period after the cessation of a marriage in which the woman is prohibited from remarrying (100 days) - Law term ➜ 待婚期間

noun / expression:

• five races under one union; founding principle of the Republic of China (Han, Manchurians, Mongolians, Hui, Tibetans) - four character idiom
• harmony of the five races; official policy of Manchukuo (Manchurians, Han, Mongolians, Koreans, Japanese) ［五族協和］ - four character idiom

noun:

• the death of Shakyamuni Buddha - Buddhism term
• Buddhist service held on the day of Buddha's death (orig. 15th of the 2nd month, now 15th of the 3rd month) - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 仏涅槃忌

noun:

• Grand Protector (lowest of the top three civil positions of the Zhou Dynasty)
• Minister of the Right (official in Nara and Heian periods) ➜ 右大臣

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to hit somebody where they least expect it; to take revenge on someone in an unlikely place; to get revenge on someone in a different contest - idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to give someone space; to give someone breathing room; to cut someone some slack; to provide leeway; to provide an opportunity

godan ~く verb:

• to ascend (the throne); to accede ➜ 付く【つく】
• to take (seat, position, course, office, etc.); to assume; to be hired; to be employed ［就く］
• to start (on a journey); to commence; to depart ［就く］
• to study (under teacher); to be an apprentice ［就く］

expression / noun:

• manner of speaking; mode of expression; way of saying something

adverb:

• at the same time as speaking; as one speaks ［いいざま］

noun:

• tally; check; piece of wood or paper split in half and given to each party as a form of proof (e.g. of a transaction)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to push away; to thrust aside
• to detach oneself from; to keep away from; to forsake; to abandon; to desert
• to act coldly; to do without emotion
• to extend a wide lead over (an opponent)

noun:

• (of Chinese) pronunciation of kanji with a medial between the initial consonant and center vowel
• (of Japanese) the long "o" vowel arising from combination of the "o" and "u" or "e" and "u" sounds

lower nidan verb (archaic) / intransitive verb:

• to leave; to exit; to go out; to come out; to get out - archaism Antonym: 入る【はいる】
• to leave (on a journey); to depart; to start out; to set out - archaism
• to move forward - archaism
• to come to; to get to; to lead to; to reach - archaism
• to appear; to come out; to emerge; to surface; to come forth; to turn up; to be found; to be detected; to be discovered; to be exposed; to show; to be exhibited; to be on display - archaism
• to appear (in print); to be published; to be announced; to be issued; to be listed; to come out - archaism
• to attend; to participate; to take part; to enter (an event); to play in; to perform - archaism
• to be stated; to be expressed; to come up; to be brought up; to be raised - archaism
• to sell - archaism
• to exceed; to go over - archaism
• to stick out; to protrude - archaism
• to break out; to occur; to start; to originate - archaism
• to be produced - archaism
• to come from; to be derived from - archaism
• to be given; to get; to receive; to be offered; to be provided; to be presented; to be submitted; to be handed in; to be turned in; to be paid - archaism
• to answer (phone, door, etc.); to get - archaism
• to assume (an attitude); to act; to behave - archaism
• to pick up (speed, etc.); to gain - archaism
• to flow (e.g. tears); to run; to bleed - archaism
• to graduate - archaism

noun / suffix noun:

• section (i.e. of text); sentence; passage; paragraph
• phrase - Linguistics term
• verse (of 5 or 7 mora in Japanese poetry; of 4, 5, or 7 characters in Chinese poetry)
• haiku; first 17 morae of a renga, etc.
• maxim; saying; idiom; expression

noun / adjectival noun:

• full of energy; full of liveliness; full of pep - four character idiom

noun:

• bed of nails; bed of thorns; bed of needles

noun:

• fire; trace of fire; heat of fire
• force of a fire ［かき・かっき］

noun:

• manner of swinging; way of swinging
• way of dealing with something ➜ 身の振り方

noun:

• rugged mountain (of the more rugged mountain of a pair of mountains) ➜ 女山

adjective:

• smelling of fish; fishy; smelling of blood; bloody
• degenerate (of a monk); depraved; corrupt; fallen
• worldly; mundane; secular; common; ordinary
• fishy; suspicious; questionable

noun:

• top; summit; apex; peak
• twelve o'clock (usu. midnight) ［てっぺん］ - often in てっぺんを回る or てっぺん回る - slang
• top of one's head; top of a helmet; (top of) scalp; crown - esp. 頂辺 when in kanji - obscure term

expression / noun:

• the way of the world; the lay of the land; the inescapable circumstances (of life)

noun:

• blow striking with the flat of the sword
• to slap ➜ 平手打ち
• metal flattened by striking
• tape; flat braid
• type of flat ornamental hairpin made of silver and inscribed with a clan's crest or patterns of birds and flowers ➜ 簪

noun:

• mountain and water; landscape (containing hills and rivers)
• landscape picture ［さんすい］ - abbreviation ➜ 山水画
• mountain stream; water that flows down from a mountain
• garden which contains an artificial hill and a pond ［さんすい］ ➜ 築山

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to assert; to declare; to claim; to state; to insist; to maintain
• to list (one by one); to enumerate; to count off
• to spread rumours (rumors); to go on and on (about)
• to use as an excuse - archaism

noun:

• an ideal topography for the four Taoist gods, with a river in the east, a broad avenue in the west, a basin in the south, and a hill in the north - four character idiom