noun:

• two books on the art of war in ancient China; the secrets (essence) of the art of war; secrets of successful life; precepts for living - four character idiom

noun:

• nine gates; winning hand consisting of one pung of 1s, one pung of 9s and one tile each of every other number, plus one more suited tile, all in the same suit - Mahjong term - From English "chi"

noun:

• (head priest of) temple formerly led by founder of sect; temple in which resided a member of nobility or imperial family; (head priest of) Honganji (temple in Kyoto)

expression:

• the word of a wise man is worth the words of one thousand fools; one thousand chirps of sparrows, one cry of a crane [literal] - proverb

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to mince; to cut fine; to chop up; to hash; to shred
• to carve; to engrave; to chisel; to notch
• to tick away (time); to beat out (e.g. rhythm); to record the passing moments
• to etch (into one's mind); to remember distinctly - as 心に刻む, etc. ➜ 心に刻む
• to have tattooed - archaism
• to torment - archaism

adverb:

• before the week is out; before the week is over; within the week; sometime this week

godan ~つ verb / intransitive verb:

• to be fragrant; to give out a smell; to be enveloped in a smell
• to be radiant; to be attractive

noun:

• viewpoint; point of view
• way of understanding; way of appreciating; how to look at something (e.g. noh, train schedule) - esp. 〜の見方

noun:

• (of Chinese) pronunciation of kanji without a medial between the initial consonant and center vowel
• (of Japanese) the long "o" vowel arising from combination of the "a" and "u" sounds

noun:

• surface Antonym: 裏
• face (i.e. the visible side of an object)
• front (of a building, etc.); obverse side (i.e. "head") of a coin
• outside; exterior
• appearance
• public
• first half (of an inning); top (of an inning) - Baseball term Antonym: 裏【うら】
• cover (for tatami mats, etc.)
• foreground - IT term

noun:

• style of clothes; method of tailoring; method of training

noun:

• memorandum of agreement; memorandum of understanding; letter of intent

noun:

• period of work; period of service; tour of duty

noun:

• breach of faith; breach of trust; act of disloyalty

noun:

• area of influence; zone of influence; extent of impact

noun:

• root (of a plant)
• root (of a tooth, hair, etc.); center (of a pimple, etc.)
• root (of all evil, etc.); source; origin; cause; basis
• one's true nature
• (fishing) reef

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to be able to say; to get someone to say; to induce someone to say; to let someone speak out

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to strike; to clap; to knock; to beat; to tap; to pat
• to play drums
• to abuse; to flame (e.g. on the Internet); to insult
• to consult; to sound out
• to brag; to talk big
• to call; to invoke (e.g. a function) - IT term

noun:

• redology; study of the novel Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin, one of China's four great classical novels

noun:

• the milk of human kindness of the people of the traditional commercial and working-class neighborhoods - four character idiom

noun:

• flat part of the top of the cranium
• plate-like depression on the head of kappa ➜ 河童

expression / noun:

• backbiting of a coward; grumblings of a loser; the far-off bark of a retreating dog [literal] - idiom

noun:

• attack; offence; offense
• dominant partner of a homosexual relationship - usually written using kana alone - colloquialism ➜ タチ・受け

suffix:

• a barrage of; a flood of ➜ 質問攻め

noun / ~する noun:

• performance (of a duty); fulfillment (of a promise); fulfilment; execution (of a contract); discharge; implementation

noun:

• commentary (on any of the 384 lines of the hexagrams in the Book of Changes)