expression / ichidan verb:

• to be lonely at the top; to be left high and dry by one's friends; to have the ladder pulled out from under one [literal]

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to not know what to do with; to be at a loss with; to have difficulty with; to be put out - idiom

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to furnish with; to equip with; to provide; to install
• to prepare for; to make preparations for; to make provision for
• to possess (all that is needed); to be endowed with; to be equipped with
• to be born with; to have since birth

noun:

• bench used by kabuki actors during performance ［合い引き・合引き］
• for enemies and allies to pull back their troops at the same time
• responding to enemy arrow fire with arrow fire

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to reach; to arrive; to get through; to get at
• to be attentive; to pay attention
• to be delivered; to carry (e.g. sound)

noun:

• thin, soft membrane inside the tip of a bamboo culm; silky inner covering at the tip of a bamboo shoot ➜ 絹皮【きぬかわ】

noun:

• someone who has come to say farewell; those who have come to say farewell; people at a send-off

noun / ~する noun:

• entering a track (of a train); arrival of a train (at a platform)
• passing the post (horseracing); crossing the finish line

expression / ichidan verb:

• to take a stab at arousing someone's interest - idiom
• (for a shrine maiden) to present water to spirits while invoking them
• to offer water before a grave

expression / ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to become unrestrained and go to excess; to lose all restraint; to lose one's tension and become relaxed; to let go; to become disorderly; to be scattered; to lose one's self-control

expression:

• the child is father to the man; the soul of a child of three (is the same) at 100 [literal]

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:

• awareness that somebody will be hard to deal with; awareness that one is not good at something; (feeling) not up to doing something

noun:

• second year at high school; second-year high-school student ➜ 高校

noun:

• (large number of people, esp. students) singing and dancing around a bonfire at night - From English "fire storm"

noun:

• thoughts; opinion; (one's) discretion - honorific language
• however much money you wish to give (as alms, a fee at a museum, etc.)
• fondness (for a significant other, etc.; often used teasingly); love; fancy; liking

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to slip into for the purposes of sex (e.g. lover's house, hotel, red light district, etc.); to shack up with
• to shut oneself away at home (due to lack of money)

godan ~う verb:

• to ridicule; to tease; to mock; to chaff; to razz; to banter with; to make fun of; to poke fun at; to make cracks about

noun:

• Yemen monitor (Varanus yemenensis, species of carnivorous monitor lizard found at the base of the Tihama mountains along the western coast of Yemen)

noun:

• doing things at one's own pace - From English "my pace"
• doing things one's own way

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to handle well; to handle deftly
• to deal with; to manage; to settle; to sort; to process
• to prepare (meat or fish) for cooking; to dress (meat, etc.); to cut and trim (fish)
• to sell out (completely); to dispose of (all stock)
• to untangle; to disentangle; to part; to arrange (e.g. the hem of a kimono)

noun:

• treatment offered at beauty salons, etc. usually including hair care, scalp care and head massage - From English "head spa"
• salon offering hair care, scalp care, etc.

expression:

• the nail that sticks out gets hammered down; people that stick out too much get punished - proverb ➜ 出る杭は打たれる
• tall trees catch much wind; people that excel at something become disliked - proverb ➜ 出る杭は打たれる

expression:

• the nail that sticks out gets hammered down; people that stick out too much get punished - proverb ➜ 出る釘は打たれる
• tall trees catch much wind; people that excel at something become disliked - proverb ➜ 出る釘は打たれる

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to show; to display; to flash
• to dangle (an offer) in front of; to hold out; to indirectly hint at; to intimate; to obliquely suggest; to allude to; to imply
• to send flurries (of snow, etc.)