noun:

• country with a constitutional government; constitutional state; country where the rule of law prevails; system based on the rule of law

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to clear; to make clear
• to be unruffled; to look unconcerned; to feign indifference
• to look demure; to look prim; to put on airs
• to strain (one's ears); to listen carefully ➜ 耳を澄ます【みみをすます】

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to put to bed
• to lay down lengthwise; to put a thing on its side
• to set something aside unused; to let lie idle
• to ferment; to lay down (wine)

noun:

• non-return-to-zero change-on-ones recording; NRZ-1; non-return-to-zero (mark) recording; NRZ(M) - IT term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to angrily reject; to snub; to give a person a good scolding; to give a person a rap on the knuckles

noun:

• going on an alms round (for food); going begging (for food); going to ask for alms of food; pindacara - Buddhism term

noun:

• before a Buddha or a mortuary tablet ➜ 仏前
• offerings made to Buddha or placed on a mortuary tablet

noun:

• hair on one's head
• head; top of one's head
• kanji "hair" radical at top ［かみがしら］

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to have one's eye caught on something; to have one's attention drawn to something

noun:

• five fruits (peach, Japanese plum, apricot, jujube, Japanese chestnut)
• five types of effect in cause-and-effect relationships ［五果］ - Buddhism term
• five effects of ignorance and formations on one's current life ［五果］ - Buddhism term

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to understand everything from only one part; to be perceptive; to be quick to understand; to be quick on the uptake - idiom

noun:

• ritual music and dancing in shrines and temples
• rice dance; rice festival
• tofu (or fish, etc.) baked and coated with miso - abbreviation - Food term ➜ 田楽焼き
• turning something in the manner one would use to cook dengaku-doufu on both sides - abbreviation ➜ 田楽返し

noun:

• Protectorate General; Han- and Tang-period Chinese office established to pacify and control peoples on the frontier (during the Tang period, six major Protectorate Generals were established) ➜ 都護・西域都護府・安東都護府・安南都護府・安西都護府・燕然都護府・単于都護府・北庭都護府

expression / ichidan verb:

• to shift one's attention to; to shift one's focus on

expression / godan ~る verb (irregular):

• (for something) to have occurred; to have done (something) - after the past tense form of a verb
• (for something) to happen on occasion

noun / ~の noun:

• lying face down; lying on one's face ➜ 俯せる【うつぶせる】

noun:

• placing upside down; placing face down

noun / ~する noun:

• self-satisfaction; self-complacency; complacency
• understanding (on one's own); realizing (through one's own ability)
• being paid back for one's deeds ➜ 自業自得【じごうじとく】

godan ~く verb:

• to ascend (the throne); to accede ➜ 付く【つく】
• to take (seat, position, course, office, etc.); to assume; to be hired; to be employed ［就く］
• to start (on a journey); to commence; to depart ［就く］
• to study (under teacher); to be an apprentice ［就く］

expression:

• one should not leave things unfinished; when a young Mencius returned home during the middle of school, his mother cut off the cloth she had been weaving on the loom to admonish him for stopping his studies midway - proverb ➜ 断機

expression / noun:

• hard work gone unnoticed; thankless task; a dance under a veranda [literal] - idiom
• off-stage dance that used to be performed on the 22th of the 2nd month in the lunar calendar in Osaka's Tennouji - orig. meaning

adverb:

• by return; (call or write back) without delay

noun:

• lapel; cuff; turn-up; flap
• going back; returning; turn (marathon, swimming, etc.)
• chorus; refrain
• shuttle service
• aliasing (in imaging)

noun / ~の noun:

• back-to-back; BTB - IT term

noun:

• wrapping (text on computer screen); wrap - IT term

expression:

• paper lanterns and temple bells (esp. as an example of two things looking similar on the outside, but of a completely different nature); (like) chalk and cheese; you can't judge a book by its cover - obscure term ➜ 月と鼈【つきとすっぽん】

expression / ichidan verb:

• to put one's life on the line; to risk one's life; to put everything one has into it

noun / ~する noun:

• working out one's salvation by own efforts; rehabilitating oneself by one's own efforts; rectifying one's ways of life without relying on others' help - four character idiom

noun:

• measuring container; measure
• box (seating at a theatre, etc.)
• square on a grid; cell of a grid - esp. マス
• square bearing block (at the top of a pillar) ［斗］