noun / ~する noun:

• obtaining items such as books, CDs and DVDs before the date they officially go on sale - abbreviation - From English "flying get" ➜ フライングゲット

noun / ~する noun:

• taking advantage of (an opportunity); jumping on the bandwagon
• taking passage (in); getting a lift; getting a ride

noun:

• waste-water port (of a dam, sewer, etc.); freeing port (on a ship)
• water hose outlet (for firefighting)

noun:

• title of a scripture or sacred text (e.g. Buddhist sutra)
• title on a scroll or rolled book ➜ 巻き物【まきもの】

noun:

• townhouse (i.e. house in the middle of a town); traditional townhouse
• tradesman's house (esp. a home with a shop in front); merchant's house; merchant's family

expression:

• rejecting the advances of women is a man's shame; shameful is he who spurns a woman's invitation; not eating the meal set before him is a man's shame [literal] - proverb ➜ 据え膳【すえぜん】

noun / suffix noun:

• gate
• branch of learning based on the teachings of a single master ［もん］
• division; phylum ［もん］ - Biology term

counter:

• counter for cannons ［もん］

expression:

• financially ruining oneself by overindulging in food and drink (as a fabled tendency of the people of Osaka) ➜ 京の着倒れ・食い倒れ

noun:

• image of the Samantabhadra of long life (with either two or twenty arms, usu. on a white elephant) - Buddhism term ➜ 普賢菩薩

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• echoing beautifully (of the sound produced by striking together jewels or metals); "beautiful (of a melody, etc.)" [figurative] - archaism

noun:

• recitation of Amida Buddha's name on a specified day and time period (practice of Pure Land Buddhists) - Buddhism term

noun:

• purity measure for gold; karat; carat; K; kt
• personality of a person born under the element of fire ➜ 金【きん】

noun:

• red suited tile that doubles the score of any hand (usu. a five of each suit) - Mahjong term ➜ ドラ

expression / ichidan verb:

• to run out of breath; to be short of breath; to lose one's breath
• to run out of steam; to be unable to continue; to collapse
• to die

noun:

• system of one-party rule; system of single-party rule

noun:

• before; this side
• one's standpoint; one's appearance

pronoun:

• we
• you ➜ 手前【てめえ】

noun:

• one's say; one's point
• complaint; grievance; objection; excuse

noun / ~する noun:

• parturition; delivery; one's child; branch; offshoot; one's other self

noun:

• (one's) beloved car (or motorcycle, bicycle, etc.); (one's) wheels

noun:

• worrying about one's master's affairs; one who so worries

noun:

• one's nature; one's destiny
• custom; tradition; habit; convention

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to rest one's chin in one's hands

noun:

• restoring one's impaired reputation; regaining one's honor; redeeming oneself - four character idiom

noun:

• restoring one's impaired reputation; regaining one's honor; redeeming oneself - four character idiom

noun:

• one's wife, children, and other relations; one's whole family - four character idiom