expression / godan ~る verb:

• to nod one's head; to nod yes; to agree

noun:

• crevice; crack; gap; opening; clearance
• spare moment; interval; break; pause; spare time
• chink (in one's armor, armour); unpreparedness; carelessness

noun / adjectival noun:

• idle and incompetent; accomplishing nothing significant nor being capable of doing so; lacking the talent to do anything but idle away one's time - four character idiom

expression:

• one should not rush to make a profit; business is best run when sales flow like a cow's drool: long and thin - obscure term

noun:

• spreading baseless information to benefit one's own position in the stock market (etc.) - From English "position talk"
• statement that is beneficial to oneself

noun:

• state (of mind); mental state; emotional condition
• field (of activity)
• one's lot; circumstance; situation in life
• place; region; area; land - orig. meaning

noun / ~する noun:

• writing with the brush in one's mouth

noun:

• foreword; preface
• affidavit; written confession (of a commoner in the Edo period)

noun / ~する noun / intransitive verb:

• looking up to a person as one's own master or model; being influenced by a person through his works; idolizing

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• rumination; regurgitation; chewing the cud

noun / ~する noun:

• turning over in one's mind; thinking over something; pondering; musing; rumination (about a subject)

noun:

• one's business - archaism - polite language
• reading of scriptures before a (statue of) Buddha
• bargain; discount
• money paid to a prostitute or geisha

noun:

• seal; stamp - archaism
• depressing the string of a zither with one's left hand
• (in archery) left hand ➜ 引き手【ひきで】
• obstinacy; stubbornness

noun:

• pung (or kong) of east tiles when east is both the round wind and one's seat wind (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 連風牌

noun:

• pung (or kong) of south tiles when south is both the round wind and one's seat wind (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 連風牌

noun:

• pung (or kong) of west tiles when west is both the round wind and one's seat wind (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 連風牌

noun:

• pung (or kong) of north tiles when north is both the round wind and one's seat wind (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 連風牌

expression:

• I quit!; I'm out!; declaring one quits, mainly used in children's games - children's language - Ōsaka dialect

noun / counter:

• nth person to quit a game - children's language - Ōsaka dialect

noun:

• longing for someone or something; waiting for someone of great talent to arrive; stretching one's neck and standing on tiptoes [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• lifting one's buttocks (e.g. through exercise); getting a perkier bum; getting rid of sagging buttocks - From English "hip up"

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to freeze; to congeal
• to concentrate one's attention on; to devote oneself to something; to ponder; to meditate

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to correct; to rectify; to reform; to amend; to redress
• to straighten (one's posture, collar, etc.); to adjust ➜ 襟を正す

noun:

• deviation-value-oriented education; education focussed on test results; education that stresses studying and passing exams to raise one's ranking; academic cramming

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to bear; to carry on one's back ➜ 背負う
• to take responsibility for; to accept a duty
• to be injured
• to owe

noun / ~する noun:

• pressing one's hands together in prayer

noun:

• triangular frame of a thatched roof

expression:

• Yours sincerely; Yours truly; Sincerely yours - at the end of Buddhist correspondence ➜ 敬具

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to get up (e.g. from bed)
• to make one's way in the world; to achieve in life

noun:

• whereabouts; place; location
• place where one belongs; where one fits in; place where one can be oneself