noun / ~する noun:

• cleaning up or covering for another; bearing the consequences of someone else's error; paying a debt for someone; wiping another's buttocks [literal]

noun:

• person who is ready to comment on every subject; ready critic - four character idiom

noun:

• study of the English language as a means to acquire Western knowledge (esp. after the end of Japan's period of isolation)
• English literature; British studies

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to turn inside out; to turn the other way; to turn (something) over ➜ 裏返す
• to look at it from another perspective - usu. as 裏を返せば
• to visit the same prostitute or geisha for a second time

noun:

• book cover; outer wrapper for a book (put on by a bookseller before being handed to a customer) ➜ ブックカバー

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be lost (e.g. luggage); to be missing ➜ 無くなる【なくなる】
• to be used up; to be run out; to be exhausted; to be consumed ➜ 無くなる【なくなる】
• to disappear (e.g. pain); to be lost (e.g. a dream, confidence) ➜ 無くなる【なくなる】

godan ~う verb:

• to knock (ideas) against each other; to present competing ideas; to have a lively exchange of ideas
• to smash together; to crash into each other; to throw at each other

noun:

• type Japanese folkloric monster (yokai), thought to be a trio of weasels who appear in a whirlwind to cut their victim
• cut caused by whirlwind

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to get back to normal; to get back into one's stride; to get back into the swing of it

noun:

• nest (of boxes); nesting
• concealed information
• adopting a child after one's own has died; child adopted in this manner ［入れ子］
• cavity in an oar (fitted onto a peg as part of a traditional oarlock) ➜ 櫓杭

noun:

• inherent flavor; inherent flavour; natural taste
• distinctive characteristic (of a person, work, etc.); peculiar quality; special ability

adjectival noun / adverb / noun:

• direct; in person; frankness; honesty; simplicity; cheerfulness; correctness; being straight
• night duty; shift (e.g. in a factory) ➜ 当直

noun:

• "winner" of a meal paid for by dutch treat (i.e. the person who eats the most) - slang ➜ 割り勘負け

noun:

• "loser" of a meal paid for by dutch treat (i.e. the person who eats the least) - slang ➜ 割り勘勝ち

noun:

• purity measure for gold; karat; carat; K; kt
• personality of a person born under the element of fire ➜ 金【きん】

noun / ~する noun:

• buying books and not reading them; stockpiling books

noun:

• books bought but not read

noun:

• S; s
• south - abbreviation
• sulfur - abbreviation ➜ 硫黄

prefix:

• nth year in the Shōwa era (1926.12.25-1989.1.7) - abbreviation ➜ 昭和

noun:

• small - abbreviation
• second - abbreviation
• subject (grammar) - abbreviation ➜ 主語
• sadist; sadistic - abbreviation Antonym: Ｍ
• sister; female partner in a homosexual relationship - abbreviation

adverbial noun:

• due to the nature of one's job; because of one's line of work

expression:

• that being the case; in that case; if that's how it's going to go

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to become bald from the forehead; to recede (of one's hairline)

ichidan verb:

• to stay on (e.g. at one's friends house); to remain in the same neighborhood

expression / adjective:

• all bark and no bite; unable to live up to one's claims

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to suffer a blast or indirect blow; to be subject to the surplus force of an impetus

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to have a secret affair; to meet secretly (for two persons); to flirt with one another ➜ 密会

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to outwit; to get the better of; to overcome a superior opponent and leave him speechless