noun:

• first eastern wind of the year; first eastern wind of the spring

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• many flowers blooming in profusion; a gathering of many beautiful women (talented people); simultaneous emergence of many talents and achievements - four character idiom

interjection:

• Hi!; Yo!; Hey man!; Hey dude!; greeting used between close male friends

expression:

• good fences make good neighbors; a hedge between keeps friendship green - proverb

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to work (for); to be employed (at); to serve (in) - usu. 勤める
• to serve (as); to act (as); to fill (the position of); to play the role (of) - usu. 務める
• to conduct a religious service - usu. 勤める

expression:

• avarice brings doom upon oneself; if a hawk-eagle tries to catch two boars at once, the boars will try to run in opposite directions, splitting the hawk-eagle into two and killing it - proverb

noun:

• political and business circles; political and business establishment; politics and industry

conjunction:

• and (so); because of which - colloquialism ➜ それで

noun / suffix noun:

• ... and westward; west of

noun / suffix noun:

• ... and eastward; east of

noun / suffix noun:

• north of; and northward

conjunction:

• and; thereupon; because of that - colloquialism ➜ 其れで

conjunction:

• and; thereupon; because of that - Kansai dialect ➜ それで

expression / noun:

• backbiting of a coward; grumblings of a loser; the far-off bark of a retreating dog [literal] - idiom

noun:

• family registry (of the district); original of one's family register; archive of family registers

noun:

• the end of things (esp. used for one's last writings) - archaism
• one's dying hour (esp. used for the death of Confucius)

noun / ~する noun:

• addition of points; scoring
• addition of marks and symbols to a classical Chinese text to aid reading in Japanese

noun / ~の noun:

• one (esp. of two); the other; one way; the other way; one direction; the other direction; one side; the other side; one party; the other party

conjunction:

• on the other hand ➜ 一方【いっぽう】

noun:

• rights and wrongs (of a case); relative merits (of a case)

noun:

• white vinegar; plum vinegar made without perilla ➜ ホワイトビネガー・梅酢【うめず】
• dressing consisting of a dashi-diluted mixture of vinegar, ground sesame, tofu, sugar and salt - Food term

noun:

• person in the online community who seeks to identify others from the information they post online, or who tries to identify places and objects that appear in comics or games - derogatory term - slang

adverb:

• continuously in some state (for a long time, distance); throughout; all along; the whole time; all the way - ずーっと and ずうっと are more emphatic
• much (better, etc.); by far; far and away
• far away; long ago
• direct; straight

particle:

• if ... then; when
• and - often ...も...ば...も...
• why don't you...?
• the more (one does something) - often ...ば...ほど
• because; since - archaism

noun:

• drawing a katana and attacking in the same stroke
• doing something suddenly, without warning

noun:

• true parrot (esp. small parrots such as the parakeet, lory and conure)