noun:

• one-on-one fight; one-to-one fight - slang

noun:

• Tang-era Chinese music
• style of gagaku based on Tang-era Chinese music and ancient Indian song and dance ➜ 雅楽・林邑楽

noun / ~する noun:

• bringing up a matter; discussion; debate; submission (e.g. a measure); referral (e.g. bill to a committee); placing (e.g. item on an agenda)

noun / ~する noun:

• (coincidence of) mutual sentiment; sharing the same sentiment with somebody; finding oneself on the same wavelength as somebody; seeing eye to eye - four character idiom

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to commiserate; to pity; to have mercy on; to sympathize with; to sympathise with
• to enjoy the beauty of; to appreciate (e.g. the moon, flowers) ［哀れむ］ - archaism

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to rebuke; to scold; to tell off; to find fault; to harp on; to reprove
• to question persistently (in order to criticize or find fault with somebody)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to pay for another; to pay someone else's debt as a loan to him; to make temporary payment on a person's behalf

noun:

• one who is obsessed with (getting into, holding on to) political power; one who is obsessed with the idea of taking over government - four character idiom

noun:

• hair style where the hair is tied up in a bundle on the back of the head (resembling the shape of a tea whisk) ➜ 茶筅

expression / ichidan verb / transitive:

• to weigh on one's mind; to trouble one's heart; to be concerned about; to worry about

noun / ~する noun:

• riding in the same carriage (car) (with a superior); attending on (one's superior) in the same carriage

noun:

• summer (on the lunisolar calendar: 16th day of the 4th month to the 15th day of the 7th month) - Buddhism term

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to fall to one's knees; to go down on one's knees (e.g. to express respect)

noun:

• Amitabha (Buddha); Amida - Buddhism term
• ghostleg lottery; ladder lottery; lottery in which participants trace a line across a lattice pattern to determine the winner - abbreviation ➜ 阿弥陀籤【あみだくじ】
• wearing a hat pushed back on one's head - abbreviation ➜ 阿弥陀被り【あみだかぶり】

expression:

• sharp eyes and ears used for collecting information far and wide; having the acumen and shrewd discernment gained by widely-collected information; being well-versed on a subject; books which broaden our knowledge - four character idiom

expression / prefix:

• to allow oneself to ...; to take the liberty of ... - with noun+する or noun+をverb

expression:

• it is presumed that; (I, we) presume that
• on one's own accord; by one's arbitrary decision ➜ 勝手に

noun:

• peep show; device with lens mounted on a stand or in a box to view enlarged pictures ➜ 覗き機関【のぞきからくり】
• water glass; hydroscope; box, etc. with glass bottom for viewing underwater ➜ 箱眼鏡【はこめがね】

noun:

• Buddhist service held on the day of Buddha's death (orig. 15th of the 2nd month, now 15th of the 3rd month)

noun:

• Buddhist service held on the day of Buddha's death (orig. 15th of the 2nd month, now 15th of the 3rd month) - Buddhism term ➜ 涅槃会

~の noun / noun:

• average; medium; common; ordinary

noun / ~の noun:

• mid-grade (item); regular grade

suffix noun:

• same level as; equal to; equivalent to; on par with
• each (e.g. month); every
• row of (teeth, houses, etc.); line of

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to pass the baton (e.g. in a relay race)
• to pass the baton; to hand on the torch - idiom

noun:

• suede; leather using the underside of the skin ➜ スエード
• piece of leather on the underside of a bag, purse, etc.

godan ~ぐ verb / transitive:

• to row; to scull; to paddle ➜ 舟を漕ぐ
• to pedal (e.g. bicycle)
• to swing (on a swing)
• to operate a hand pump
• to push through (deep snow, the jungle, etc.)

expression:

• better starve than fatten on ill-gotten wealth; don't lower yourself to unjust acts, no matter how desperate you are; refraining to drink from a spring called Robber's Spring even if thirsty [literal] - proverb

noun:

• life; life force - sometimes written as 生命 ➜ 生命
• lifetime; lifespan
• most important thing; foundation; core
• paired tattoos of the "life" kanji on the upper arms of a man and woman (indicating unwavering love) - archaism
• fate; destiny; karma - archaism