noun:

• bunbuku chagama (a mythical raccoon dog transformed into a teapot)

noun:

• call number (e.g. of a book in a library)

expression:

• a drowning man will catch at a straw - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• returning to a club (one was formerly a member of) - colloquialism - obscure term

noun:

• signboard depicting scene from a play (usu. outside a theatre)

expression:

• You must lose a fly to catch a trout - idiom

noun:

• running style (of a horse, e.g. a front runner)

noun:

• papercraft sculpture representing a scene akin to a painting

noun:

• storage chest for a suit of armour and a helmet

noun:

• coating a painting with a layer of transparent oil

noun:

• blow to a vital point of a person's body - Martial Arts term ➜ 当て身【あてみ】

expression / noun:

• fighting over nothing; making a mountain out of a molehill

expression / noun:

• fighting over nothing; making a mountain out of a molehill - idiom

expression / noun:

• fighting over nothing; making a mountain out of a molehill

expression:

• more than a friend (implies a degree of intimacy)

expression:

• taking a cut from a thief's plunder; vile deed

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to untie; to unfasten; to unwrap; to undo; to unbind; to unpack
• to unsew; to unstitch
• to solve; to work out; to answer
• to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.); to clear up; to remove (suspicion); to appease
• to dissolve (a contract); to cancel; to remove (a prohibition); to lift (a ban); to raise (a siege)
• to release (from duty); to relieve; to dismiss
• to comb (out); to card; to untangle (hair) ➜ 梳く【すく】

noun / suffix noun:

• charge; cost; price
• generation; age; reign
• era - Geology term
• a representative of; on behalf of; for (someone) - after someone's name or title
• used after a phone number to indicate that it is a switchboard number ➜ 代表電話番号

counter:

• counter for decades of ages, eras, etc.
• counter for generations (of inheritors to a throne, etc.)
• proxy application company - abbreviation ➜ 代理申請会社

noun:

• pronoun - used in dictionaries, etc. - abbreviation ➜ 代名詞

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to do (something) to spite (someone); to rebuke indirectly; to make an insinuation; to have a dig at
• to make a display of affection (for each other); to show off a relationship

expression:

• used to create a rhetorical question indicating that the speaker actually believes the opposite is true; emphasizes a determination not to do something by means of a rhetorical question - female language ➜ ものか

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

noun:

• guest room (at a hotel); guest cabin (on a boat); passenger cabin (on a plane)
• drawing room

noun:

• origin of a character
• composition of a Chinese character
• Chinese character from which a kana character is derived

noun / ~する noun:

• boarding (a train, bus, etc.); getting into (e.g. a taxi)

counter:

• indicates position in a sequence ➜ 目【め】

noun:

• divisions of a kabuki performance