noun:

• East Asian age reckoning; traditional system of age reckoning whereby newborns are considered one year old and on New Year's Day one year is added to everyone's age

expression / adjective:

• inarticulate; not making oneself quite clear; slurring one's words; evasive

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to be puffed up with pride; to throw out one's chest

noun:

• great sweater; one who perspires freely

noun:

• angry voice; one's voice when shouting with anger

noun:

• each; each one - often used adverbially as てんでんに ➜ てんでに

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to come home in triumph; to return to one's hometown in glory

noun:

• poor handwriting; humble reference to one's own handwriting - humble language

adverb / noun:

• by any chance; ten thousand to one

noun:

• physical strength; the strength of one's muscles

expression:

• another; one more

expression / adverb:

• not quite; not very good; lacking ➜ 今一つ【いまひとつ】

noun:

• alternate; every other one

noun / ~する noun:

• backdoor admission to a school; backdoor entry to a school; buying one's way into school; bribing one's way into a school - four character idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to pass away; to breathe one's last

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be descended from; to inherit (a disposition, etc.) from one's ancestors

noun / ~の noun:

• according to (depending on) the mood of the moment; as one's fancy dictates - four character idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to break the silence; to break one's silence

noun:

• diversionary tactics; concealing one's true motives until the last moment - four character idiom ➜ 敵は本能寺にあり

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to close up like an oyster; to retire into one's shell - obscure term

ichidan verb:

• to take a pinch of something (e.g. salt); to pick up in one's fingers

expression:

• some are wise and some are otherwise; one thousand with their eyes open; one thousand blind [literal] - proverb - sensitive

godan ~つ verb / intransitive verb:

• to get angry; to lose one's temper

expression / ichidan verb:

• to set about in earnest; to put one's back into something - sensitive

noun:

• (one's) youth; one's younger days

noun:

• obtaining the respective numbers of cranes and tortoises from the total of their heads and legs; calculating the values of two unknown quantities from their unit total and the total of one of their attributes