noun:

• the edge at the very tip of a sword

noun:

• the part of a province closest to the capital - archaism ➜ 道の後・道の中

noun:

• the part of a province midway from the capital - archaism ➜ 道の口・道の後

numeric:

• one-tenth; one percent (one-tenth of a wari); 3 mm (one-tenth of a sun); 2.4 mm (one-tenth of a mon, a traditional unit used to measure shoe sizes); 0.1 degree (one-tenth of a do, used to measure body temperature on any temperature scale)

noun:

• one-quarter of a ryou (obsolete unit of currency)
• thickness
• advantageous circumstances
• one-tenth of a monme of silver ➜ 匁【もんめ】

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb / transitive:

• to open; to undo; to unseal; to unpack
• to bloom; to unfold; to spread out
• to open (for business, e.g. in the morning)
• to be wide (gap, etc.); to widen

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to hold (meeting, etc.); to give; to open
• to found (nation, dynasty, sect, etc.); to open (a new business); to set up; to establish; to start
• to open (ports, borders, etc.)
• to open (an account)
• to open up (new land, path, etc.); to clear; to develop ➜ 拓く
• to open (a file, etc.) - IT term
• to extract (root); to reduce (equation) - Mathematics term
• to cut open (fish) - as 魚を開く - Food term
• to change (kanji into hiragana)

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to flare (e.g. skirt)
• to slacken (into a poor posture) - as 体が開く, 肩が開く, etc. - Sports term

noun / adjectival noun:

• licentiousness

noun:

• being something of a politician; having something of the politician in one - four character idiom

noun:

• meaning of a title (of a book, poem, etc.); point of a question

expression / godan ~ぶ verb:

• to cause a commotion; to create a big stir; to invoke a storm [literal]

noun:

• Shōwa restoration; Showa restoration; call for Imperial restoration by militarists in the 1930s

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to shoot dead; to bring down (an animal)
• to win (a prize, someone's heart, etc.); to make one's own

noun:

• bottle gourd
• ensign bearing a cluster of gourds (used by Toyotomi Hideyoshi)

noun:

• Cheki; brand of small instant cameras made by Fujifilm

interjection:

• check it out; take a look - From English "check it"

noun:

• robe worn by military officials with a round collar, unstitched open sides and no ran ➜ 襴

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to have readied a bow and stand at ready; to watch for an opportunity; to bide one's time; to wait until the time is ripe ➜ 満を持する

noun:

• upstage right pillar (on a noh stage), where the main actor stands at the start and end of the play ➜ 仕手

noun:

• ordinary person; member of the general public; non-celebrity

noun:

• chasing down; pushing down; deposing; ousting
• sacrificing to create a shortage of liberties, then capturing (in the game of go)

~と adverb / ~の noun:

• at the critical moment; when it counts - often used as ここぞというとき or ここぞとばかり

temporal noun / noun:

• period; epoch; era; age
• the times; those days
• oldness; ancientness; antiquity
• antique; period piece - abbreviation ➜ 時代物

noun:

• under one's arm; (in) the armpit

noun:

• wearing one's hair knotted in the back

noun / ~の noun:

• (for the) first time in one's life

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to bite; to chew; to gnaw
• to crash against (e.g. of waves); to break onto (shore)
• to engage (of cogs, zippers, etc.); to mesh; to fit together
• to be involved in ➜ 一枚噛む
• to fumble one's words (during a play, broadcast, etc.); to falter with one's words
• to strongly confute; to argue down; to rebuke; to scold harshly - archaism

noun:

• pumice stone
• loose rock; loose stone
• floating group (in the game of go); group without a base