noun:

• samadhi (state of intense concentration achieved through meditation) ［さんまい］ - Buddhism term - From Sanskrit

suffix noun:

• being immersed in; being absorbed in; indulging in; doing to one's heart's content - usu. ざんまい
• prone to; apt to - usu. ざんまい

noun / ~する noun:

• appearing with one's (full) name; showing one's name (on a nameplate, etc.)

expression / adjective:

• being driven into a corner; having no way out; being caught between a rock and a hard place

noun:

• year of a person's birth ［せいねん］

noun / prefix noun:

• number of years since one's birth; age - e.g. 生年35歳

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to write from top to bottom
• to write out (at a stretch); to write without a pause
• to rewrite classical Chinese in Japanese word order

noun / ~する noun:

• reading (a text) aloud without trying to understand it ➜ 素読【そどく】
• reading a second draft without checking it against the original

noun:

• ratio indicating the quantity of polished rice gained from a given quantity of brown rice (nowadays usually expressed as a percent)

noun:

• hundredth of a yen
• coin made of non-precious materials ➜ 銭【ぜに】
• one-thousandth of a kan (as a unit of currency) - obsolete term ➜ 貫
• one-thousandth of a kan (as a unit of mass) - archaism

noun:

• staying awake on the eve of the 57th day of the sexagenary cycle (to prevent the three worms from reporting one's wrongdoings and shortening one's lifespan), while worshipping Sakra, the Blue-Faced Vajra, or Sarutahiko ➜ 三尸

noun:

• being at one's wit's end; being (quite) at a loss (what to do) - four character idiom

noun:

• living only for one's work; a life with no other interest than one's work - four character idiom

noun:

• daimyo's spare residence or emergency refuge
• residence of a daimyo's successor

noun:

• girl who has led a sheltered life; pet daughter; naive girl; ingénue
• wooden block puzzle; Daughter in the Box; Klotski

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be highly-reputed and sell extremely well (of a printed literary work); to raise the price of paper in Luoyang [literal] - idiom - archaism

noun:

• unidentified craft said to have washed ashore in Ibaraki Prefecture during the Edo period (sometimes alleged to have been a UFO)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to bow (in great numbers) to a greater authority; to be drawn (en masse) to something attractive; even the plants yield [literal] - idiom

noun:

• ceremony on the fifth day of the 10th lunar month in which the emperor would watch prize archery (Heian and Kamakura periods)
• first firing of the bow (after the New Year or the reconstruction of the archery range (in military families))

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】

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to throw; to cast (e.g. vote, light, shadow)
• to devote oneself (e.g. to a cause) - in the form of 身を投じる ➜ 身を投じる
• to invest; to put in
• to administer (medicine); to give

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to surrender
• to take advantage of; to make full use of
• to fit well with; to match with; to be in tune with
• to stay (at a lodging)

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

• to throw; to cast (e.g. vote, light, shadow) - usu. 投じる ➜ 投じる

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

• to devote oneself (e.g. to a cause) - in the form of 身を投ずる
• to invest; to put in
• to administer (medicine); to give

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

• to surrender
• to take advantage of; to make full use of
• to fit well with; to match with; to be in tune with
• to stay (at a lodging)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to blow a conch; to blow a trumpet shell; to blow the war horn ➜ ほら貝【ほらがい】

noun / ~する noun:

• selling on the market (in the marketplace, in stores, etc.); making something commercially available

~の noun:

• commercial (e.g. software); over-the-counter; off-the-shelf; store-bought

noun / suffix noun:

• member

noun:

• rhyme ➜ 韻を踏む

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to drive into (e.g. a nail into a board); to hit into (e.g. a home run into the stands)
• to throw into (e.g. jail)
• to drum into (someone) (an idea, skill, etc.); to hammer into; to drill into