noun:

• working on a day off (to make up for lost time, or to make an impression)

noun:

• one's mind; one's inner feelings; (a decision hinging on) how someone feels about it - four character idiom

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to cling to; to stick to; to lie flat (e.g. on the ground)

godan ~つ verb / transitive:

• to whip; to lash; to give the rod; to spur on; to encourage

adjectival noun / adverb / ~する noun:

• sticky - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• thickly (e.g. painted); heavily (applied) - onomatopoeia
• all over (pasting, stamping, etc.) - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• clinging (e.g. of a person); following around; being all over (each other); flirting - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun:

• cliched; hackneyed - colloquialism ➜ べた

noun:

• written work (esp. a bound text, as opposed to a scroll)
• a text written entirely in kana
• graphic novel (esp. one created between the 12th and 19th centuries)
• notebook (for practicing kana, drawing pictures, etc.)
• rough draft

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to drift; to float
• to waft (e.g. a scent); to hang in the air
• to be in the air (e.g. a feeling or mood)
• to wander; to walk around aimlessly
• to be unsteady; to be unstable - archaism
• to falter; to flinch; to wince - archaism
• to live in unreliable circumstances - archaism

noun:

• using multiple simple paper masks to represent different emotions in a play (from the middle of the Edo period) ➜ 百面相
• simple paper mask ➜ 目鬘

noun:

• menko; children's game in which thick circular or rectangular cards are slapped down on the ground to overturn other cards

noun:

• tug of war (orig. a form of divination to predict whether the year will be favourable or unfavourable)
• forward puller (of a rickshaw)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to borrow; to have a loan; to hire; to rent; to buy on credit

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to misplace; to put in the wrong place
• to make a mistake in deciding the winner - Sumo term

expression:

• (villains) of the same stripe; birds of a feather; badgers of the same hole [literal] - idiom

expression / adverb:

• by the end of this year; before the year comes to a close; during this year

noun:

• leading a group of people; someone who leads others into a song by singing the leading notes ➜ 音頭を取る【おんどをとる】
• workmen's songs; marching songs

adverb / ~と adverb:

• in a crowd; in droves; in a stream; in succession - onomatopoeia
• crawling (of insects); swarming - onomatopoeia
• dragging (e.g. along the ground); trailing; stretching out - onomatopoeia

noun:

• calling many harlots and entertainers and have a big party
• starting an important maneuver at the end of a game of go

noun:

• cash; cash payment; payment on the spot ➜ 即金・当銀

noun:

• cash; cash payment; payment on the spot ➜ 即金

noun:

• active player; player on the active list

noun:

• times and situations; the course of events of the times; a turn of Fortune's wheel - four character idiom

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to spur on; to urge forward; to impel
• to drive at high speed (e.g. a car)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to write down; to make a note of; to put on record; to chronicle

noun:

• second in command
• fourth athlete to compete in a 5-on-5 team competition (kendo, judo, etc.) ➜ 先鋒【せんぽう】

expression / adjective:

• unable to stay (on); unable to endure being somewhere a second longer; feel like running away