noun:

• determined purpose
• an incredibly short span of time (i.e. the time occupied by a single thought) - Buddhism term
• a single repetition of a prayer (esp. in Jodo-shu) - Buddhism term ➜ 浄土宗

noun / ~する noun:

• being orientated (towards); pointing (towards); directing (towards) ➜ 志向

~の noun:

• directional (e.g. microphone)

suffix noun:

• -oriented

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to jump; to leap ➜ 踊る
• to pound (of one's heart, i.e. with excitement); to throb
• to be messily written

noun / ~する noun:

• judgement; judgment; discernment; discrimination; having an eye for
• appraisal (e.g. of an antique); evaluation; assessment

noun:

• forensics; (criminal) identification; crime lab

noun:

• hands behind one's back; hands tied behind one's back
• behind (e.g. someone); rear; back
• appearance from behind ➜ 後ろ姿

noun / ~する noun:

• looking straight ahead; looking in the face
• looking squarely at (e.g. a problem); facing (e.g. the truth); confronting

noun:

• normal vision; emmetropia

noun:

• user; consumer; employer
• master (e.g. of swordsmanship)
• prodigal; spendthrift

noun / ~する noun:

• payment in advance; advance payment; prepayment ➜ 前払い
• payment on delivery (e.g. business-reply mail, collect phone calls) ➜ 着払い【ちゃくばらい】

noun:

• forerunner

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to change color (esp. leaves, fruit, flowers) (colour)
• to turn crimson (e.g. leaves in autumn); to begin to redden
• to ripen; to grow ripe

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• shrill; strident; piercing; tinkling; metallic-sounding - onomatopoeia
• sharp (pain, e.g. headache, earache) - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun:

• ice-cold; very cold

noun:

• broom (esp. one for sweeping a silkworm-raising room on the first Day of the Rat of the New Year)
• plant used for constructing brooms (e.g. kochia) ➜ 箒草
• liquor; alcohol; sake

noun:

• icy road - From German "Eisbahn"
• frozen snow surface (e.g. on a ski slope)
• skating rink - orig. meaning

expression / noun:

• formidable person; shrewd person; someone not to be taken lightly; person of no common order
• certain person (e.g. whose name cannot be disclosed); someone
• that sort of person; that kind of person - archaism

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to swing; to wield (physically); to exert ➜ 槍を振るう
• to exercise (e.g. power, ability); to exhibit; to display; to wield (metaphorically) ➜ 威を振るう
• to flourish; to prosper; to thrive

counter:

• counter for ships (large boats)
• counter for half of a pair (e.g. half of a folding screen)
• counter for fish, birds, arrows, etc.

adverb / ~と adverb:

• sticking; clinging - onomatopoeia
• with a smack (e.g. sitting down); hard - onomatopoeia
• all over; thickly - onomatopoeia

noun:

• flat ground
• seats immediately in front of the stage (e.g. in kabuki) ➜ 平土間【ひらどま】
• multi-brand display area (in a shop)

noun:

• link; connection; tie; bond; contact

noun / ~の noun:

• filler; stopgap (job, budget, etc.)

noun:

• thickener (e.g. in cooking); thickening; liaison
• hedging; hedge - Finance term ➜ ヘッジ
• overalls; coveralls; boiler suit
• intermission (in kabuki); interval

noun:

• research society
• study class (e.g. religious)
• seminar (e.g. presentation of research)

noun:

• continued alertness; unrelaxed alertness; remaining on one's guard; being prepared for a counterstroke
• follow-through (e.g. in archery)
• lingering affection; attachment; regret; regrets; reluctance - orig. meaning

noun:

• measure
• square (e.g. of graph paper or Japanese manuscript paper)
• box (e.g. on a form)

noun / ~する noun:

• bursting through the surface; suddenly surfacing; rapid ascent
• sudden increase (e.g. in public interest)
• fast rise (e.g. in rank)

noun / suffix noun:

• lattice - Mathematics term

noun / suffix noun / counter:

• counter for large bundles (e.g. 10 sheafs of rice, 200 sheets of calligraphy paper, 20 whistling arrows, 100 fish)
• handbreadth (unit for measuring the length of arrows)

noun:

• Edo-period unit of silver coinage ［銀目］
• steel-blue eyes (e.g. of a cat)
• silver eye (species of beardfish, Polymixia japonica) - usually written using kana alone - abbreviation ➜ 銀目鯛

noun:

• main text (as opposed to any included commentary or annotations)
• authentic text (e.g. of a treaty, as opposed to any translation not specified as authentic) - Law term
• Chinese classical literature