noun:

• leaving something where it is; abandoning something - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ 置きっ放し

noun:

• showery sky; (it is) looking showery - four character idiom

expression:

• no news is good news - proverb

particle:

• yes?; no?; isn't it?; is it? - used at sentence-end; indicates a question (sometimes rhetorical) - familiar language - Kansai dialect ➜ かい

expression / adjectival noun / noun:

• freedom; liberty; as it pleases you

noun / ~する noun:

• writing (e.g. as a profession)

adjectival noun:

• substantial; real (as opposed to nominal) Antonym: 名目的【めいもくてき】

noun / ~の noun:

• encouragement (as an abstract concept); stimulation ➜ 励み

noun:

• acting ability; talent as a performer

noun:

• dragon (as depicted in Western myths) ➜ 竜

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be low (as a hollow)

noun:

• working as a lady's maid

noun / ~する noun:

• collapsing load (as on lorries, trucks)

noun:

• as a matter of social courtesy

noun:

• public indignation; anger (as a citizen)

noun / ~する noun:

• acting as go-between; good offices

noun:

• in my case; as for me

noun:

• absolute (as opposed to relative) position

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• worn-out (as opposed to sleepy)

adverb / noun / adjectival noun / ~する noun:

• bits and pieces; frizzily (as in perm) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• as one flesh or body; simultaneously

noun:

• (jar used as a) charcoal extinguisher

noun:

• authority as chairperson or president, etc.

noun:

• money given as loan

adjectival noun / noun / ~の noun:

• self-indulgence; doing as one pleases