noun:

• young men who are not competitive as in the traditional male stereotype, including in the avid pursuit of money and sex, and who may also be kind, co-operative and family-oriented - abbreviation ➜ 草食系男子
• men who pretend they aren't interested in women; spineless males; men with no balls - abbreviation - slang

noun / ~する noun:

• putting money aside; savings; deposit (e.g. in a bank)
• accumulated surplus of wins; wins in the bank - Baseball term

noun / ~する noun:

• standing together in a disorderly fashion; standing close around; crowding together
• flooding in (applicants, election candidates, etc.)

expression:

• many irons in the fire; engaged in two trades at the same time; wearing two hats - idiom

noun:

• slip of the pen; mistake in writing ➜ 書き損じ
• something ruined by a mistake in writing (e.g. postcard) ➜ 書き損じ

noun:

• Fifteen Years' War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945)

noun:

• Jizo Festival (child-focused religious festival, in which Jizo statues are decorated, esp. in Kyoto; 23-24 August)

noun:

• slip of the pen; mistake in writing
• something ruined by a mistake in writing (e.g. postcard)

auxiliary:

• if; in case; if it is the case that; if it is true that - hypothetical form of the copula だ, from なり and sometimes classed as a particle
• as for; on the topic of ［なら］

conjunction:

• if that's the case; if so; that being the case - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ それなら
• if possible; if circumstances allow ［ならば］

noun:

• man who takes his wife's family name and marries into her family; man who is adopted by his wife's family

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to disappear into; to be lost in; to slip into; to get mixed in among
• to do something under the cover of (confusion, etc.)
• to be almost indistinguishable; to be confusingly similar
• to be diverted from (negative emotions, etc.); to forget about
• to be distracted by; to be too absorbed in

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to poke (repeatedly, lightly); to nudge ➜ 突く【つつく】
• to peck at (one's food); to pick at
• to peck at (someone's faults, etc.)
• to egg on; to put up to

noun:

• immersion; dipping; in microscopy, immersing both the objective lens and the specimen in a liquid to increase the numerical aperture; in photolithography, filling the air gap between the final lens and the wafer surface with a liquid to increase the resolution

noun:

• taste (of a liquid, esp. alcoholic beverages) - usu. のみくち
• someone who enjoys alcohol
• place one's lips touch on the rim of a cup
• shape of one's mouth when drinking
• tap; faucet; spigot - usu. のみぐち

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to poke (repeatedly, lightly); to nudge
• to peck at (one's food); to pick at
• to peck at (someone's faults, etc.)
• to egg on; to put up to

ichidan verb:

• to scatter; to disperse
• to spend on; to squander (e.g. one's fortune)
• to chase away (e.g. one's worries); to kill (pain)

ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs):

• to scatter; to disperse
• to spend on; to squander (e.g. one's fortune)
• to chase away (e.g. one's worries); to kill (pain)

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

noun / ~する noun:

• growing en masse in a location (plants) ［ぐんせい］
• living gregariously (animals, people); living in a community ［ぐんせい］

noun:

• all animate creation - Buddhism term

noun:

• family trouble (quarrel); domestic squabble; internal squabble (over headship rights) in a daimyo family in the Edo period

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to be lost in lust for riches; to throw all caution and conscience away in pursuit of riches ➜ 目が眩む

expression:

• there is unexpected good in what others have left behind; last but not least; there is fortune in leftovers [literal] - proverb ➜ 残り物に福がある【のこりものにふくがある】

expression:

• there is unexpected good in what others have left behind; last but not least; there is fortune in leftovers [literal] - proverb

expression:

• there is unexpected good in what others have left behind; last but not least; there is fortune in leftovers [literal] - proverb ➜ 残り物には福がある【のこりものにはふくがある】

expression / ichidan verb:

• to think about; to send one's heart out to; to give more than a passing thought to; to think of something far away; to think nostalgically upon (esp. one's hometown) ➜ 思いを致す