adjectival noun / noun:

• dry (esp. as in not wet or as in dry humour)

noun:

• education in art and design; education in drawing and manual arts - four character idiom

noun:

• substrate (i.e. in biochemistry)
• matrix (i.e. in biology); stroma

noun:

• foil (i.e. aluminum foil) ➜ ホイル
• foil (in fencing) ➜ フルーレ
• foil (in Gothic architecture)

noun:

• everywhere in the capital (e.g. Tokyo); everyone in the capital

expression / godan ~る verb:

• be absorbed in deep thought; be sunk in thought

noun / ~する noun:

• nick in a blade (sword, knife); chip in a blade

expression / ~する verb (spec.):

• to assemble (in a hall); to meet together (in a room)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to grab a person by his vulnerable spot; to curry favour with one's superior; to curry favor with one's superior

noun:

• Showa-era stage show in which a woman would stand half-naked in a frame (resembling a Western-style painting)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to take one's place; to take one's position; to go into position; to line up

upper nidan verb (archaic) / intransitive verb:

• to fall down; to drop; to fall (e.g. rain); to sink (e.g. sun or moon); to fall onto (e.g. light or one's gaze) - archaism ➜ 落ちる
• to be omitted; to be missing - archaism ➜ 落ちる
• to crash; to degenerate; to degrade; to fall behind - archaism ➜ 落ちる
• to be removed (e.g. illness, possessing spirit, name on a list) - archaism ➜ 落ちる
• to fall (into someone's hands); to become someone's possession - archaism ➜ 落ちる
• to fall; to be defeated; to surrender - archaism ➜ 落ちる

noun:

• judicial decision made with human kindness and warmth in a fair manner (from the decisions of Ōoka Tadasuke, a jurist in 17th century Japan)

noun:

• karayuki-san; young Japanese women who were sent to work (mainly as prostitutes) in foreign countries, esp. in Southeast Asia (Meiji to early Showa)

adverb:

• in a line; in a row - onomatopoeia

~する noun / ~の noun:

• to contact; to get in touch ➜ ご連絡

noun:

• contacting; getting in touch; communication; call; message ➜ ご連絡
• connection; coordination; junction

~の noun:

• intercalary; intercalaris; internuncial

noun:

• dried codfish soaked in water for few days, and cooked almost to dryness in soy sauce and water (Kyoto speciality)

noun:

• finishing reading

noun / ~の noun:

• non-serialised story (e.g. in a magazine); complete story

noun:

• breaks and pauses (in a sentence) ➜ 句読

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to say in a round-about way (not to upset); to cushion the blow; to wrap in wafer paper [literal] - idiom

noun:

• in calligraphy, an abbreviated or mistaken form of a character, or a work written in more than one calligraphic style

noun:

• Tochū tea (high in minerals and reputed to be beneficial for weight loss and in cases of high blood pressure) ➜ 杜仲

noun:

• (in Japan) 6th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. G) ➜ 十二律・仲呂
• (in gagaku) scale similar to Mixolydian mode on G ➜ 呂旋・六調子

godan ~う verb:

• to lie on one's stomach; to sleep while lying on one's stomach; to crawl on the ground; to sprawl

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to hold between; to grip with (from both sides); to nip; to catch (e.g. one's finger in a door)
• to put between; to sandwich between; to insert; to interpose; to interject
• to be on either side of (a road, table, etc.); to be across (a street, river, etc.); to have between each other

noun:

• bystander's vantage point; outsider's better grasp of the situation - four character idiom

expression:

• onlookers see more of the game than the players do; people watching a game of go see 8 moves further ahead [literal]