noun:

• elder brother; one's senior - colloquialism - familiar language ➜ 兄貴
• dashing young man; gallant young lad

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be deeply impressed; to take to heart; to engrave on one's heart; to bear in mind - idiom

noun:

• a cut above; one step above

noun:

• foolish opinion; one's opinion

noun / ~の noun:

• bedside; near one's pillow

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to step out of the ring; to put one's foot outside the ring - Sumo term

noun:

• chest and stomach; one's innermost being

adjective:

• patronizing; expecting gratitude in return; acting like one is doing someone a favor; condescending ➜ 恩に着せる【おんにきせる】

noun:

• long stay; overstaying one's welcome

expression:

• you better watch your step!; sleep with one eye open!

noun / ~する noun:

• writing by oneself; one's own handwriting

noun:

• contest decided by a single round (bout); contest decided by a single roll of dice; one-shot game (contest); make-or-break game - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• suddenly seeing the light; it suddenly dawning upon one - four character idiom ➜ 豁然大悟

noun / ~する noun:

• dying of shame; being so ashamed one wants to die

expression / noun:

• red string of fate; in Chinese-Japanese folklore, fated lovers were said to be joined by an unseen red string, tied around one little finger of each

noun:

• time appointed for meeting (assembling); time one is supposed to meet

noun:

• mon; one-thousandth of a kan (unit of currency 1336-1870)
• 2.4 cm (traditional unit used to measure shoe sizes)
• letter; character; sentence
• scripture; incantation - abbreviation ➜ 経文・呪文

noun / adverb:

• whole face; all over one's face

expression / ~と adverb / adverb:

• this and that; one thing or another

noun:

• Rip van Winkle feeling; feeling that everything has changed once one comes back to one's hometown

noun / ~する noun:

• adherence (to one's beliefs) (positive nuance); persistence; sticking to one's guns; standing one's ground

noun:

• sit-ups; exercise to strengthen one's abdominal muscles

expression:

• once a beggar, always a beggar; if one begs for three days, one cannot stop [literal] - proverb

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to harm oneself in an attempt to harm someone else; to spit at the heavens and have one's spit land back on one's face [literal] - proverb ➜ 天に唾する

expression / godan ~ぬ verb:

• to die a natural death; to die in one's own bed - sensitive