noun:

• recognition and guarantee, by the shogunate, of ownership of the inherited estate of a samurai who pledged allegiance to it (in the Kamakura and early Muromachi periods) - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• cancellation; writing off (a debt)
• indicating a long sound in kana ➜ 長音【ちょうおん】

noun:

• tug o' war; tug of war

noun / ~する noun:

• abbreviation; simplified form of a character; cutting out some strokes in a character; omitting some passages

ichidan verb:

• to let a person take hold of; to bribe by slipping money into a person's hand

noun:

• alternative name; alternate name
• assumed name of a customer in a brothel (for anonymity)
• stage name

expression:

• do your best; go for it; hold on; keep at it

noun:

• godan (verb, verb conjugation) - abbreviation ➜ 五段動詞【ごだんどうし】・五段活用【ごだんかつよう】・一段【いちだん】
• fifth rank (in martial arts, go, etc.)

~の noun / noun:

• former; previous; old

noun:

• first move (in go, shogi, etc.); opening move

noun / ~する noun:

• dressing oneself (e.g. to go out); outfitting oneself

expression:

• hold on; go for it; keep at it; do your best ➜ 頑張る

noun:

• chairman; speaker (e.g. of assembly); president (e.g. of council, senate, etc.); moderator (e.g. of a newsgroup)

noun:

• shogi player; go player

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to go to bed

godan ~る verb:

• to go to Starbucks - slang

ichidan verb:

• to go; to come - usu. お出でる or 御出でる - honorific language

expression / noun:

• a matter of time; matter of hours; question of time

noun:

• lion dance; traditional dance performed by one or more dancers wearing a guardian lion costume

expression / ichidan verb:

• to have a hard time of it; to have a bitter experience

noun / ~する noun:

• ex-officio questioning; police questioning (of a suspicious person); a police checkup - four character idiom

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• rustling - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun / ~の noun / adverb / ~する noun:

• dry; rough feeling; rough to the touch - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~する noun:

• rough (of a person); course; crude; unrefined; uncouth - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• catching fish with a net

noun:

• entrance fee; initiation fee; registration fee; present to a teacher
• gift of dried meat from a new vassal or pupil - archaism

noun:

• fat underbelly of a fish
• sand polishing
• sand finish (e.g. finishing a wall with sand mortar)
• chicken gizzard - colloquialism - Food term ➜ 砂嚢

noun:

• alarm clock - abbreviation ➜ 目覚まし時計【めざましどけい】
• waking up; keeping oneself awake
• type of candy given to a child after it wakes up from a nap ➜ お目覚

noun:

• scattering
• leaflets - esp. チラシ - usually written using kana alone
• sushi rice in a box or bowl with a variety of ingredients sprinkled on top - abbreviation ➜ 散らし寿司
• writing in an irregular hand - abbreviation ➜ 散らし書き

noun / ~する noun:

• infringement (of a law, treaty, etc.); contravention; running afoul
• conflict (with a theory, claim, etc.); inconsistency; incompatibility; contradiction
• collision; contact; touching - orig. meaning - archaism