godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to use (a thing, method, etc.); to make use of; to put to use
• to use (a person, animal, puppet, etc.); to employ; to handle; to manage; to manipulate ➜ 人使い
• to use (time, money, etc.); to spend; to consume
• to use (language); to speak ➜ 言葉遣い

noun:

• clipping (of newspaper article, etc.); cutting; scrap (for a scrapbook)
• cut-out (picture, coloured paper, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ 切り抜き絵・切り抜き細工

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to insert; to put in ➜ 差す
• to plant (a cutting); to strike ➜ 挿し木
• to arrange (flowers) ➜ 挿し花
• to wear (a sword) in one's belt ➜ 差す
• to shut; to close; to lock; to fasten ➜ 鎖す【さす】

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to start; to begin; to commence
• to challenge; to pick (a fight); to make (war)
• to set (traps); to plant (explosives); to lay (mines)
• to make a meld call - Mahjong term ➜ 鳴く【なく】

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to employ one's secret weapon; to play one's trump card; to use the ace up one's sleeve - idiom

~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb / transitive:

• to crouch; to stoop; to bend down; to prostrate oneself; to lie down
• to yield; to submit; to surrender
• to hide; to conceal oneself

expression / ichidan verb:

• to put all one's skill (into doing something); to do something to the best of one's ability

noun:

• passing a bone fragment from one pair of chopsticks to another while placing the remains of the deceased in a funerary urn; two people picking up the same bone fragment with chopsticks at the same time
• passing food from one pair of chopsticks to another (a breach of etiquette); two people picking up the same piece of food with chopsticks at the same time ➜ 拾い箸

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to throw; to toss; to cast
• to hit; to strike; to smash; to hammer in; to drive in
• to fire into (e.g. a crowd); to launch (e.g. missiles); to lob (e.g. grenades)
• to wear (sword, etc.); to carry

noun:

• day of Ten'ichijin's first ascension to heaven in a year (the 30th day of the first sexagenary cycle of the year) - obscure term ➜ 天一神・天一天上・癸巳

noun:

• water monitor (Varanus salvator, species of carnivorous monitor lizard common from Sri Lanka in the west to the Philippines in the east); common water monitor ➜ サルバトールモニター

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be disordered; to be disarranged; to be disarrayed; to be disheveled; to be dishevelled
• to be discomposed; to be upset; to get confused; to be disturbed
• to lapse into chaos (due to war, etc.)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to extend; to stretch out; to stand in a row
• to attend; to participate in
• to enrol; to enroll; to join
• to have a connection; to be related; to be linked

~する noun / noun:

• to overwhelm (e.g. an opponent); to overwpower; to crush; to defeat completely
• to overwhelm (someone with emotion); to move; to impress; to fill with emotion - usu. in the passive as 圧倒される
• to intimidate; to frighten; to threaten

adverbial noun:

• in the first place; to begin with; from the start; originally; ab initio

conjunction:

• after all; anyway; actually; well, ...; ... on earth (e.g. "what on earth?"); ... in the world (e.g. "why in the world?") - used when bringing up something already mentioned

noun / ~の noun:

• beginning; start

noun:

• expectation that something took place, will take place or was in some state; it should be so; bound to be; expected to be; must be
• nock (of a bow)
• nock (of an arrow)
• nock-shaped grip (between thumb and forefinger) - Sumo term ➜ はず押し【はずおし】
• wooden frame on the tip of the mast of a Japanese ship that prevents the hawser from falling out

noun:

• official notice
• Edo-period proclamation issued by the shogunate (or a daimyo, etc.) usu. to the general populace ［お触れ・御触れ］ - abbreviation ➜ お触書

noun:

• publicly predicting the future developments of a creative work (making it difficult for the creator to use those ideas) - slang ➜ ねた

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to vitalize (e.g. an industry); to invigorate; to energize; to revive; to promote; to make prosperous
• to establish (e.g. a company); to build up; to set up; to launch; to commence ➜ 起こす

adjectival noun / noun:

• strict; hidebound; inflexible; being a sticker for the rules; sticking hard and fast to the rules - four character idiom

noun:

• influential members of parliament acting for the benefit of the private industries to which they are connected

noun:

• the three types of gagaku drums - obscure term
• third division of the night (approx. 11 pm to 1 am) - archaism

noun:

• Miyako toad (Bufo gargarizans miyakonis, a subspecies of the Asiatic toad endemic to the Ryukyu Islands)

noun:

• soft spot (in the skull of an infant); fontanelle; fontanel
• gates of Hades; entrance to the underworld ➜ 黄泉

noun:

• closest pine-tree to a noh stage (of the three placed in front of the bridge walkway)