adjective:

• painful; difficult; tough; hard
• distressing; (psychologically) difficult; stressful; awkward (e.g. position)
• straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation); needy; struggling
• strained (interpretation, explanation, etc.); lame (e.g. excuse); forced (e.g. smile); far-fetched

auxiliary adjective / adjective:

• hard to do; unpleasant - after -masu stem of verb; often ぐるしい ➜ 寝苦しい【ねぐるしい】・見苦しい【みぐるしい】

noun:

• palace room for government officials or ladies in waiting
• room inside a palace or private estate allocated to employees; person living in such a room
• boarding house for trainee administrators (Ritsuryo period) ➜ 大学寮

expression / adjective:

• it can't be helped; it is inevitable; nothing can be done; there's no point (in doing something); there's no reason (to do something)

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• cooking for oneself; cooking one's own food; doing one's own cooking; making food oneself; self-catering
• scanning a book or magazine to create an ebook by oneself

noun:

• end; finish; stop
• bounds; limits ➜ 切りがない・切りのない
• delivery date (of a futures contract) - esp. 限り,限
• finale (of a noh song); end of an act (in jōruri or kabuki); final performance of the day (in vaudeville)

suffix / counter:

• counter for slices (esp. thick slices); counter for cuts (e.g. fish, meat)

particle:

• only; just - senses 6-8 are sometimes pronounced ぎり, esp. in old-fashioned speech - usually written using kana alone ➜ っ切り【っきり】
• since; after - usu. in a negative sentence - usually written using kana alone
• remaining (in a particular state) - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• enshrinement of two or more deities in one building of a shrine; shrine building dedicated to two or more deities

noun:

• striking sparks with flint and steel or by rubbing sticks together (usu. to start a fire); fire lit by sparks from flint and steel, etc. ➜ 鑽る
• Shinto fire-purification ceremony - Shintō term

noun:

• financially scraping by; meagre existence (meager); hand to mouth existence
• living one's life without plan; living life day-by-day; taking life one day at a time

expression / noun:

• formidable person; shrewd person; someone not to be taken lightly; person of no common order
• certain person (e.g. whose name cannot be disclosed); someone
• that sort of person; that kind of person - archaism

adverb / ~と adverb:

• fiercely (e.g. of a fire burning) - onomatopoeia
• bong-bong (of clock ringing) - onomatopoeia
• with repeated bangs (e.g. of fire cracker) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• striking clock - abbreviation - onomatopoeia ➜ ぼんぼん時計
• green young man from a well-to-do family - Kansai dialect

noun:

• mark-to-market valuation; fair market valuation; fair valuation; market valuation

noun:

• mom's home cooking; taste of mom's cooking; taste of home cooking; food like mom used to make

noun:

• master (of a house, shop, etc.)
• husband (informal)
• sir; boss; master; governor; word used to address a male patron, customer, or person of high status
• patron of a mistress, geisha, bar or nightclub hostess; sugar daddy ➜ パトロン
• alms; almsgiving; almsgiver - orig. meaning; usu. written as 檀那 - Buddhism term - From Sanskrit "dāna" ➜ 檀越・檀家

noun / ~する noun:

• down (opposite of up); becoming lower; being brought down; bringing down
• being down (e.g. with a cold) and unable to continue (work)
• down (e.g. a system); not running (e.g. servers) - IT term
• download; downstream - abbreviation - IT term

noun:

• down (feathers)

noun:

• good actor who is inept in all other matters; demon for acting who is utterly indifferent to all other concerns; skilled actor who knows little of life; person who excels in one occupation (profession) but lacks simple common sense - four character idiom

noun:

• road; path; street; lane; passage
• route; way
• distance; journey
• road (e.g. to victory); course
• way (of living, proper conduct, etc.); moral principles
• teachings (esp. Confucian or Buddhist); dogma
• field (e.g. of medicine); subject; speciality
• means; way; method

prefix noun:

• new members (e.g. club); new students; freshman

noun:

• event to welcome new students, club members, etc. (e.g. welcome party) - abbreviation ➜ 新歓コンパ

noun:

• flock from a vine-seed weed, used for face powder, and believed to promote desire and happiness
• animal from popular folklore with a white fluffy down made from dandelions and a rabbit's tail resembling a fluffy hairball

noun:

• preceptor or high priest (esp. in Zen or Pure Land Buddhism) ［おしょう］ - honorific language
• preceptor or high priest (in Tendai or Kegon Buddhism) ［かしょう］ - honorific language
• preceptor or high priest (in Shingon, Hosso, Ritsu or Shin Buddhism) ［わじょう］ - usu. 和上 - honorific language
• second highest priestly rank in Buddhism ➜ 法眼
• monk (esp. the head monk of a temple) ［おしょう・かしょう］
• master (of one's art, trade, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• being brought to a standstill; being stranded; getting stuck; stalling; deadlock
• being stumped; being in a dilemma; stopping in one's tracks; standing speechless
• dying while standing (and remaining standing); dying on one's feet

noun:

• cart (esp. a food cart); stall; stand ➜ 屋台店
• festival float; portable shrine dedicated to a god and shaped like a house; dancing platform ➜ 踊り屋台
• stage prop fashioned after a large building
• framework (of a house, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ 屋台骨
• house (esp. a small and miserable house) - archaism

noun:

• stretching out a string; stretching out like a string
• silk reeling; silk spinning; filature; silk reeler; silk spinner ➜ 糸取り
• pulling someone's strings
• appearance of strings from a Buddha's fingertips when being prayed to (folk belief)
• menstruation - euphemism

expression:

• Y adding up to Z; Y making up Z; Y constituting Z; Z consisting of Y; Z composed of Y; Z containing Y - for the pattern Y からなる Z

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• one-coin (i.e. able to be paid for with only one coin, esp. a 500-yen coin, sometimes a 100-yen coin); costing 500 yen; costing 100 yen

noun:

• volume number; reel number; scroll number
• number of volumes; number of reels; number of scrolls; number of turns (of a coil); number of windings (of a transformer, electromagnet, etc.)
• a set number of scrolls to be read by a Buddhist monk ［かんじゅ・かんず］