noun:

• General Headquarters (office of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers); GHQ ➜ ＧＨＱ

noun:

• leavings of a meal; food scraps; leftovers
• food particles (in one's teeth or mouth); bits of food

noun:

• poking one's food around using one's chopsticks; playing with one's food with one's chopsticks (a breach of etiquette)

~する verb (spec.):

• to obey; to submit; to defer; to yield; to abide
• to serve (e.g. in the army, or a sentence in jail (gaol))
• to observe (e.g. mourning) - also pronounced ぶくする
• to drink (tea, medicine, etc.) - also pronounced ぶくする

godan ~す verb:

• to obey; to submit; to defer; to yield; to abide ➜ 服する
• to serve (e.g. in the army, or a sentence in jail (gaol))
• to observe (e.g. mourning)
• to drink (tea, medicine, etc.)

noun:

• ura-nage (in judo, an over-the-head throw performed by rolling backwards) - Martial Arts term

noun:

• entertaining people by serving tea (esp. in the Obaku school of Zen) - archaism

noun:

• racketeering by interceding in civil disputes and threatening the use of violence - abbreviation ➜ 民事介入暴力

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to study; to complete (a course); to cultivate; to master
• to order (one's life)
• to repair (a fault one has committed)

lower nidan verb (archaic) / transitive:

• to study; to complete (a course); to cultivate; to master - archaism
• to order (one's life) - archaism
• to repair (a fault one has committed) - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• warming something in a vessel placed in hot water

noun:

• ceramics made in a mold
• formulaic production style in kyogen

~と adverb / ~たる adjective:

• torrentially; swiftly flowing (water, esp. river); voluminously flowing
• (speak) eloquently; fluently; spout forth (a torrent of speech)
• flood of the times (moving strongly in one direction); current of the times

noun:

• putting one's own interest ahead of one's party (for a politician) - play on 党利党略 ➜ 党利党略【とうりとうりゃく】

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to groan; to moan
• to roar; to howl; to growl
• to hum (engine, wind, etc.); to buzz; to whiz; to sough; to make a low, dull sound
• to ooh and aah (in admiration)

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to sing in a strong, low voice (esp. traditional chant or recitation)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be about to burst; to overflow

noun / ~する noun:

• finishing (a race); running the whole distance; reaching the goal; staying the course

noun / ~の noun:

• rule; regulation
• settlement; conclusion; end; agreement; arrangement
• habit; custom; habitual way ➜ 御決まり
• countenance in front of another person; face - usu. as 決まりが悪い, etc. ➜ 決まりが悪い
• love relationship between a customer and a prostitute - archaism

noun:

• practice of buying a bottle of spirits at a bar which is then kept there for the customer - From English "bottle keep"

noun:

• explanatory notes (at the start of a book); introductory remarks; usage guide (e.g. of a dictionary)
• legend (on maps, drawings, etc.) ➜ キャプション

noun:

• box set at a gate of a home or near the front door, used for receiving deliveries of newspapers, mail, milk, etc.

noun:

• super spreader (carrier of a viral disease who spreads the virus to a large number of other people)

noun:

• cheap wines and unpalatable dishes (a modest (self-deprecating) way of offering a meal to a guest) - four character idiom

noun:

• period when one's voice changes; (age of) puberty

noun:

• General Headquarters (office of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers); GHQ

noun:

• empowering women; promoting women's contribution; removing obstacles to women's full participation in society and the workplace