expression / noun:

• group of independents; usu. informal grouping of independent politicians in the National Diet or in prefectural assemblies

noun:

• being somewhat (half) joking; half seriously; half in jest; in a jocular vein - four character idiom

noun:

• being somewhat (half) joking; half seriously; half in jest; in a jocular vein - four character idiom

noun:

• useless card (in karuta); worthless card ➜ カルタ
• card only worth 1 point (in hanafuda) ➜ 花札

adverb:

• no matter what; anyhow; in any case; at any rate; in any event; anyway - archaism

expression:

• what's done is done; that's water under the bridge; it is no use crying over spilt milk; spilt water won't go back into its tray [literal] - proverb

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to take in; to bring in; to adopt (e.g. behaviour); to introduce ➜ 採り込む
• to capture (e.g. image); to import - IT term
• to win over; to please; to curry favour with; to flatter
• to defraud of; to swindle; to embezzle

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to be busy; to be in confusion; to have trouble

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to get into the swing of (one's work); to hit one's stride
• (for a fish or bird) to put on fat for the winter

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to sink (into); to cave in; to get stuck in

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to be interested in; to take an interest in; to care about

noun:

• a family; a household; a home; one's family; whole family
• (one's own) style; school
• gang; (yazuka) family

noun:

• free action; free activity; acting at one's own discretion; taking one's own course; free hand; independent action

noun:

• direction; way; side; area (in a particular direction)
• side (of an argument, etc.); one's part
• type; category
• field (of study, etc.)
• indicates one side of a comparison
• way; method; manner; means
• length (of each side of a square)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to feel dizzy; to have blood rush to one's head
• to lose one's cool
• to be obsessed; to be infatuated
• to become conceited

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to bake; to plate; to print; to fire (e.g. pottery); to stain
• to burn into one's memory; to sear into one's consciousness

noun:

• symbol used in place of a censored word (e.g. blank, circle, X, asterisk)
• turn (in set-type proofing); upside-down character - later printed as 〓

noun:

• person whose physical suitability for conscription in the former Japanese military could not be determined in that year (e.g. due to illness)

noun:

• dish of potatoes first boiled, then spun around while fried in a bowl (making them look as if covered in powder) - Food term

particle:

• too; also; in addition; as well; (not) either (in a negative sentence)
• both A and B; A as well as B; neither A nor B (in a negative sentence) - as ＡもＢも
• even; as much as; as many as; as far as; as long as; no less than; no fewer than - used for emphasis or to express absence of doubt regarding a quantity, etc.
• even if; even though; although; in spite of - often as 〜ても, 〜でも, 〜とも, etc.

adverb:

• further; more; again; another; the other - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ もう

expression:

• if everyone crosses against the red light, then there's nothing to be afraid of; there's no reason to feel guilty about doing something bad if everyone does it - proverb

godan ~ぶ verb:

• to study (in depth); to learn; to take lessons in

adverbial noun / noun:

• in the middle of; height of; in course of; midst

noun:

• in name and in reality; nominally and virtually; form and contents

expression:

• in any case; in either case; whichever the case may be

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to conspire; to act in collusion; to be hand-in-glove