adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• last third of a month; 21st to the last day of a month

noun:

• finding a way out of a potentially fatal situation; seeking a way out of a desperate situation - four character idiom

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• flapping (of a flag, fan, etc.); fluttering; whack-whack (e.g. beating dust out of a rug); whap-whap - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• pitter-patter (of footsteps) - onomatopoeia
• quickly (making progress); in quick succession - onomatopoeia

expression:

• if you visit the toilet while travelling, you will get behind your fellow travelers; one chou for a piss, one ri for a shit [literal] - archaism - proverb ➜ 里【り】・町

expression:

• It's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one; They to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep; Poor thinking is futile; Inadequate ideas are worse than none at all - proverb ➜ 下手の考え休むに似たり

expression:

• It's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one; They to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep; Poor thinking is futile; Inadequate ideas are worse than none at all - proverb ➜ 下手な考え休むに似たり

expression / adjective:

• in good shape; strongly built; in good health; having a strong constitution

expression:

• in time of need; for a rainy day; in case of emergency

expression / ichidan verb:

• to excel in one thing; to be a master in an art

noun / ~する noun:

• sulking in bed; going to bed in a huff

noun:

• doctor working in a hospital; physician working in public practice ➜ 開業医

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to participate in (as a member); to get involved in - idiom

noun:

• inside of a castle
• area surrounded by castle walls

noun:

• area struck (by some disaster); location of a disaster

noun:

• buying a replacement; replacing by buying something new

noun:

• continental island; island formed by separation from a continent

noun:

• calendar era; year numbering system used by a calendar

expression / noun:

• completely empty (of a residence, etc.); vacant; deserted ➜ 蛻【もぬけ】
• body from which the soul has left; corpse
• shed skin (of a snake, insect, etc.) - orig. meaning

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• tarsal (relating to the tarsus - a group of small bones between the tibia and fibula and the metatarsus)

noun:

• banishment (to a nearby province); the least severe of the three banishment punishments under the ritsuryo system

noun:

• large, perforated, turnip-shaped arrowhead cover made of Japanese bigleaf magnolia or paulownia; harmless arrow affixed with such a cover (that whistles when shot and is used to drive off evil spirits) - abbr. of 響目

noun:

• probe into the truth (of the matter); dig into the real facts of the case; get at the root of a matter - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• kiss - colloquialism

noun / ~と adverb:

• squeak (as in the sound made by mice)
• sound of liquid being sucked up

noun:

• one's support (power) base; the base of one's support in an electorate - four character idiom

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to make progress; to move right ahead (with the work); to advance ➜ 捗【はか】