expression / ichidan verb:

• to determine whether something is right or wrong; to make something clear; to settle a matter - colloquialism

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to open (e.g. path); to clear (the way); to break up (e.g. land) ➜ 開く【ひらく】

noun:

• arrest rate; clear-up rate; crime-arrest ratio

noun:

• certain diagnosis; clear diagnosis; definitive diagnosis - Medicine term

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to clean up; to clear away; to put in order

noun / adjectival noun:

• being proven guilty of a crime; having one's guilt for a crime made clear; (the) nature of offense being (becoming) clear - four character idiom

godan ~す verb:

• to machine; to cut; to scrape

noun / ~の noun:

• being free from all distracting thoughts; keeping one's mind clear of all worldly thoughts; being free from all ideas and thoughts - four character idiom

noun:

• being kept uninformed; being cut off; out of the loop - sensitive
• upper gallery (where one can't hear); blind seat - archaism

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to carve into; to cut into; to dig into

noun:

• beautiful weather; clear and cloudless sky; clear Japanese weather

noun:

• scraps; cut end; cut-off piece

noun:

• someone unable to fulfil their shopping needs (esp. in areas of depopulation or due to lack of transport); people who have been cut off from the retail sector; shopping refugee [literal]

noun:

• scraps; cut end; cut-off piece

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to ease up (on an opponent); to cut corners; to be shoddy

noun / ~する noun:

• removal; cut off; mowing

noun:

• cutting a person's sidelocks; evenly cut sidelocks (symbol of adulthood for noblewomen in the Heian era); ritual of cutting the sidelocks (coming-of-age ceremony for women from about 1568-1867) - archaism

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be in sight (e.g. a resolution); to have a clear idea; to have bright prospects

noun:

• scraps; cut end; cut-off piece

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to take someone down a peg; to cut someone down to size; to dampen someone's confidence

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to break; to snap; to be cut; to split; to crack
• to be injured
• to wear out; to be worn out
• to break; to burst; to collapse
• to wear off; to stop working; to go dead
• to expire (time limit, etc.); to run out; to become due
• to run out (of stock, etc.); to be exhausted; to be used up; to be sold out; to be out of
• to be broken off (e.g. of a relationship); to break up; to have severed ties; to be cut off; to be disconnected
• to cut well; to be sharp
• to be sharp-minded; to be keen; to be shrewd; to be quick-witted; to be able
• to be short of; to drop under (a certain figure); to beat (e.g. a record time)
• to dry off
• to curve; to veer
• to shuffle (cards)
• to get angry; to snap; to blow one's top; to lose one's temper; to flip - colloquialism ➜ キレる

auxiliary verb / ichidan verb:

• to be able to do completely - after the -masu stem of a verb - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• fine weather (i.e. little or no clouds); fair weather; clear weather; clear sky; fair skies

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to detach; to decapitate; to cut loose; to let loose; to dismember

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

• clearly evident; quite obvious; as clear as day; beyond any doubt; strikingly apparent - four character idiom

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to quit (a shady business); to wash one's hands of; to cut one's ties with; to turn over a new leaf; to go straight - idiom
• to wash one's feet