adverb:

• a little; a bit; slightly ➜ ちょっと

noun:

• (a) militant; (a) belligerent

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to read (a book); to open (a book) to read
• to unravel (e.g. a mystery); to discover (the truth)

noun:

• double-sword fencing; two-sword fencer ➜ 使い【つかい】
• being skilled in two fields; (an) expert in two fields
• liking both alcohol and sweets; person who likes alcohol and sweets equally well
• bisexual (person)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to break; to be smashed
• to split; to crack; to fissure; to be torn
• to be divided (opinion, vote, etc.); to split (e.g. of a party)
• to come to light; to become clear; to be identified; to be revealed
• to be distorted (of a sound)
• to be divisible (without a remainder)
• to go below a minimum

noun:

• a single word; (not even) a word; (not even) a syllable - four character idiom

noun:

• protecting a rice field; watching over a field; person who watches over a rice field

noun / ~する noun:

• advance (into a new market or stage of progress); launching (a new career or venture); expanding (into a new market); stepping forward; emerging

noun:

• filling in (e.g. between speakers at a meeting, acts at a show); material used to fill in (between speeches at a meeting, etc.); anecdote

godan ~う verb / transitive / intransitive verb:

• to sing

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to sing (one's praises in a poem, etc.); to compose a poem; to recite a poem - esp. 歌う, 詠う

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to place in a row; to line up
• to list; to enumerate
• to talk a lot of nonsense; to tell a lot of lies

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to be absent; to take a day off
• to rest; to have a break
• to go to bed; to (lie down to) sleep; to turn in; to retire
• to stop doing some ongoing activity for a time; to suspend business

noun:

• robe worn by military officials with a round collar, unstitched open sides, and no wrapped fabric along the bottom ➜ 闕腋の袍
• small opening in the side of traditional Japanese clothing (where the sleeve meets the bodice, below the armpit); clothing with such an opening (usu. worn by women or children) ➜ 八つ口

noun:

• shrine ritual held with the first two months of the year to forecast (or pray for) a successful harvest
• seasonal planting of rice on a field affiliated with a shrine

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to handle well; to handle deftly
• to deal with; to manage; to settle; to sort; to process
• to prepare (meat or fish) for cooking; to dress (meat, etc.); to cut and trim (fish)
• to sell out (completely); to dispose of (all stock)
• to untangle; to disentangle; to part; to arrange (e.g. the hem of a kimono)

noun:

• arraying a number of reference books in order to compose poetry; literary composition crammed with maxims, ancient episodes, legends, etc.
• otters lining a catch of fish on a river bank; (people) making offerings (esp. of fish) - orig. meaning

noun / ~する noun:

• appointment (to a position, job, etc.); being used for a role; promotion

noun:

• jigo; go game resulting in a tie or a draw

noun:

• capital punishment given personally by a feudal lord after a disrespectful act

noun:

• taking up a new position as chief priest of a Buddhist temple

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to enclose (a word, letter, symbol, etc.) with a circle

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to start a bout with the turn of a referee's fan - Sumo term

noun:

• peeler (for peeling a label from its base in a barcode printer)

noun:

• short pillar set on a beam to support a ridgepole ➜ うだつが上がらない

noun:

• a drop in the bucket (ocean); a small fraction (of); trifle - four character idiom