noun / ~の noun / adjectival noun:

• triumph; prosperity
• pride
• one's strong point; one's forte; one's specialty
• frequent customer (client, etc.)

noun:

• complexion; one's colour; one's color
• countenance; expression; one's face

noun:

• leaving or staying
• (one's) course of action; (one's) position; (one's) attitude

noun / ~する noun:

• one-ring scam - From English "one call"
• one ring; disconnecting a call after one ring has gone through

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

noun:

• book in Japanese
• book bound in the Japanese style ➜ 和本

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to stop; to turn off - esp. 止める, 停める
• to park - esp. 止める, 停める
• to prevent; to suppress (a cough); to hold back (tears); to hold (one's breath); to relieve (pain) - esp. 止める, 停める
• to stop (someone from doing something); to dissuade; to forbid; to prohibit
• to notice; to be aware of; to concentrate on; to pay attention to; to remember; to bear in mind ➜ 目を留める・気に留める
• to fix (in place); to fasten; to tack; to pin; to nail; to button; to staple - esp. 留める
• to detain; to keep in custody - esp. 留める

expression:

• the eyes are the windows to the soul; the eye is the lamp of the body - proverb

expression:

• spoiling someone's work; useless effort; laboring in vain; labouring in vain; if a peasant sows seeds, the crows will dig them up [literal]

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to be upset; to lose one's composure; to lose self-control; to go to pieces; to be shaken up; to break down; to be flustered; to blow one's cool

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to put in disorder; to mess up; to disturb; to scatter about

noun / ~する noun:

• open-air tea ceremony
• aristocrat taking a break during a trip in a palanquin
• something standing in the open

noun:

• archaic period of time (usu. a period of approx. two hours corresponding to one of the signs of the Chinese zodiac)
• carving; engraving; cutting; mincing ［刻］
• victory ［剋］
• strictness; cruelty

noun:

• style of speaking in which the speaker gives the end of each sentence or phrase a higher intonation - From English "up talk"

noun / ~する noun:

• one-person show; one-woman show; one-man show; performing solo; monodrama

noun:

• one's speciality; one's forte; one's strong point

noun:

• spirit; mind; heart ➜ 気を逸らす
• nature; disposition ➜ 気が小さい
• motivation; intention - usu. after a verb ➜ やる気・気がない
• mood; feelings ➜ 気が重い
• ambience; atmosphere; mood

noun:

• demon; devil; evil spirit; evil influence

suffix noun:

• someone who (habitually) performs some (negative) act ➜ 覗き魔

noun:

• water ball; large inflatable sphere that allows a person inside it to walk across the surface of a body of water

noun / ~の noun:

• middle of the road; centrism; moderation; golden mean

noun:

• the middle (of what one is doing); half-way
• middle way; middle path - Buddhism term

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:

• Failure to think of the long term leads to grief in the short term - four character idiom

noun:

• the Four Heavenly Kings (Dhrtarastra, Virudhaka, Virupaksa, and Vaisravana) - Buddhism term
• the big four (i.e. four leaders in a given field)

expression / ~の noun:

• the way it was; the way it used be; as of old; in former times

noun:

• government and people; those in and out of the court or government; the entire nation

noun:

• advancing in the face of death; having a narrow escape from the jaw of death - four character idiom