noun:

• political dynamics; dynamics of political forces; the balance of political power - four character idiom

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to be jealous of; to be envious of; to envy ➜ 焼く【やく】

noun:

• mechanism of action (e.g. drug); mode of action; action mechanism - Medicine term

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

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

noun:

• voice; speech; sound of a voice
• sound (e.g. of a TV) ［おんせい］

noun / ~する noun:

• getting tired of; getting sick of; getting bored with; getting fed up with

noun:

• Chinese yam (variety of Dioscorea opposita)
• Japanese yam (variety of Dioscorea japonica)

noun:

• Budget Committee (of the Upper and Lower Houses of the Diet)
• budget committee

noun:

• bamboo dealer; person selling bamboo or articles made of bamboo
• house made of bamboo

noun:

• first sound of the year for an animal; first sound of the season - obscure term

noun:

• go or shogi board
• position of a game of go or shogi

noun:

• Raggiana bird-of-paradise (Paradisaea raggiana); Count Raggi's bird-of-paradise

noun:

• course of a thrown ball - Baseball term
• course of a hit ball (golf, tennis, etc.) - Sports term

noun / ~の noun:

• unilaterality (e.g. of a contract); one-sidedness (e.g. of a treaty)

noun / ~の noun:

• bilaterality (e.g. of a contract); two-sidedness (e.g. of a treaty)

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to give up all thoughts of; to abandon; to despair of

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to make up one's mind; to take a momentous decision

noun:

• presence (of a nobleman, the emperor, etc.) ➜ おまえ
• outrider (person riding horseback in the lead position of a cavalcade) ➜ 前駆

noun / suffix noun:

• My Lord; My Lady

noun:

• Protector General; Tang-period Chinese official in charge of the local Protectorate General ➜ 都護府
• travelling inspector of the provincial governments (Nara- and Heian-period position) ➜ 按察使

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

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be a topic of conversation; to be made much of
• to be taken in

noun / ~する noun:

• profit; gains
• benefit; advantage; interest (of the public, etc.)
• grace (of God, Buddha, etc.) (esp. as attained through rightful actions, prayer, adherence to one's faith, etc.); blessing; miracle ［りやく］

adjective:

• terrible; dreadful - colloquialism ➜ 凄い
• amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); wonderful; terrific - colloquialism ➜ 凄い
• to a great extent; vast (in numbers) - colloquialism ➜ 凄い

noun:

• flounder (esp. the large-tooth flounders of family Paralichthyidae, but also lefteye flounders of family Bothidae)
• bastard halibut; olive flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus)

expression:

• metaphor in which the road to paradise is likened to a white road between two rivers, one of water (wrath) and one of fire (greed) - Buddhism term

noun:

• room or pavilion of residence for the master of the house (Heian period palatial-style architecture) ➜ 寝殿造
• room where the emperor usually lives in the imperial palace