expression / noun:

• Now let's return to the main subject; To return from the digression,.. (in a conversation, speech, or story-telling) - four character idiom

noun:

• value honor; round wind, seat wind, and dragon tiles - Mahjong term ➜ 圏風牌・門風牌・三元牌
• winning hand containing one kong (or pung) of a value honor - Mahjong term ➜ 役【やく】

noun:

• anticipated questions and answers (e.g. for a press conference, interview or oral exam); collection of hypothetical questions and answers

ichidan verb:

• to connect; to join; to join or tie or knot together

noun / ~する noun:

• favourite poem or song; favorite poem or song
• lover of poetry and song

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to weaken; to grow weak; to wane; to decline (of one's health)
• to be downcast; to be dejected; to be dispirited
• to be troubled; to be at a loss; to be perplexed; to be annoyed

adjectival noun / adverbial noun / noun:

• very hard; with utmost effort; with all one's might; desperately; frantically; for dear life; all-out effort; sticking at living in and defending one place - four character idiom ➜ 一生懸命
• sticking at living in one place

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• outbreak; spring forth; occurrence; incidence
• generation (e.g. of power or heat); genesis; origin
• ontogeny; development of complex multicellular structures from cell(s) in a simple state ➜ 個体発生

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to visit; to call on; to pay a visit to

noun:

• little four winds; winning hand consisting of three kongs or pungs of winds and a pair of the fourth wind - Mahjong term - From Chinese

~する verb (spec.):

• to name; to take a second name or alias ➜ 号・号
• to announce; to boast; to declare

noun:

• shower effect (theory that placing high-selling items on the upper floors of a department store will lead to increased sales in the lower floors) ➜ 噴水効果

noun:

• device with axle used to change the backdrop of a (kabuki) play - archaism ➜ 田楽豆腐
• turning something in the manner one would use to cook dengaku-doufu on both sides

expression / noun:

• true love; deep love; love for someone so deep that it can reach a crow perched on that person's roof

noun:

• blood spilt from the body
• blood circulating within the body (often as a metaphor for strong emotion or hot-bloodedness)

noun / ~する noun:

• going in the opposite direction
• going against the wind
• running or operating a machine in reverse (such as an electric motor)

noun:

• vehicle-mounted electricity generator (e.g. for filming, emergencies, etc.)
• power-generating railway car (e.g. for air-conditioning on a non-electric train)

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to eat; to drink; to wolf; to knock back - vulgar
• to receive (e.g. a blow)
• to be on the receiving end (of something undesirable); to undergo (trouble)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to drive on; to urge forward (e.g. cattle); to rouse (game from its cover); to shoo away
• to press a tenant to leave; to evict

noun:

• holding out one or both hands and arching one's body backward like a shrimp (in kabuki, represents being overwhelmed by someone's power)

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to attend on; to wait upon; to accompany; to escort and wait on; to chaperone

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to blaze down on; to beat down on; to shine down upon

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to boil; to be boiling hot; to be on a rolling boil

noun:

• (one's) view on work; (one's) opinion on work-life balance

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hide; to conceal
• to lower volume (of a sound or one's voice) so as not to be heard
• to become quiet and inconspicuous