noun:

• nine gates; winning hand consisting of one pung of 1s, one pung of 9s and one tile each of every other number, plus one more suited tile, all in the same suit - Mahjong term - From English "chi"

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• thundering; purring; grumbling (e.g. stomach) - onomatopoeia
• something large and heavy starting to roll - onomatopoeia
• scattered about; common; commonplace; all over - onomatopoeia
• idleness; idling about - onomatopoeia
• having a foreign substance in (e.g. one's eye or stomach) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• thunder - children's language - onomatopoeia

noun:

• white night (i.e. at the North or South Pole); short night; night under the midnight sun

~する verb (spec.):

• to play with; to joke; to use (esp. trick, sophistry, etc.)
• to deride; to scoff at; to make fun of

noun:

• magic mallet; lucky mallet; nursery-tale mallet that delivers one's heart's desire at a wave

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to throw (liquid) at; to dash
• to inundate (with questions); to heap (praise); to hurl (abuse); to level (insults)

expression / godan ~ぶ verb:

• to go; to come; to turn out (at a meeting, event, etc.); to show up; to make your way to

noun:

• customer at a brothel; john; someone who has forgotten the eight virtues ➜ 八徳
• brothel; owner of a brothel

noun:

• cold wind blowing at Lake Biwa around the 24th day of the second month of the lunisolar calendar ➜ 法華八講

noun:

• selling out before the price drops (usu. shares); selling at the top of the market

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to fix one's eyes on; to stare intently at; to study carefully (with the eyes)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to hint at; to intimate; to suggest; to allude to; to imply

expression / adverb:

• in the end; at the end of the day

noun:

• shut-in; stay-at-home; hikikomori; people who withdraw from society
• social withdrawal; shunning other people

noun:

• elegance; grace; refinement; class; dignity

suffix:

• article; item

suffix / counter:

• counter for items (of food, etc.); counter for dishes or courses (at a restaurant) - sometimes pronounced ぴん

adverb / expression:

• using anything one can lay one's hands on; haphazardly; on the rebound; at random; indiscriminately

noun:

• rice gruel with diced sweet potatoes
• gruel with ivy broth and finely minced Japanese yam served at large Imperial banquets

noun:

• on-off timer (i.e. to automatically turn an electrical device on and off at specified times)

noun:

• New Year ornament (usu. of straw, fern leaves, seaweed and bitter orange fruit, and hung at the entrance of a home)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to accomplish; to achieve; to carry out
• to arrive at (a certain outcome); to come to; to end with

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to rage; to storm (at); to be furious
• to enthuse; to speak passionately; to get worked up; to galvanize

noun:

• upstage right pillar (on a noh stage), where the main actor stands at the start and end of the play ➜ 仕手

expression:

• helping and protecting in all ways; acting as a raincoat (protecting from rain) and acting as a hat (protecting from sun) [literal] - proverb ➜ 陰になり日向になり【かげになりひなたになり】

noun:

• root (of a plant)
• root (of a tooth, hair, etc.); center (of a pimple, etc.)
• root (of all evil, etc.); source; origin; cause; basis
• one's true nature
• (fishing) reef

noun / ~する noun:

• leading a meeting; presiding over a meeting; officiating at a ceremony; chairmanship

noun:

• chairman; presenter; host; moderator; master of ceremonies ➜ 司会者【しかいしゃ】