noun / ~する noun:

• tossing oneself about in great pain; writhing in agony - four character idiom

noun:

• going in and out of style; changes in fashion

noun:

• beside oneself with joy; in raptures; in an ecstasy of delight - four character idiom

adverb / ~する noun:

• squelching; gurgling; bubbling

adverb:

• raking in (money); rolling in; hand over fist

noun:

• work in progress; WIP; goods in process

noun:

• sex establishment in which staff dress in costumes (schoolgirl, nurse, etc.) - abbreviation - From English "image club" ➜ イメージクラブ

prefix:

• single; simple

noun:

• singles (in tennis) - abbreviation ➜ 単試合
• winning system (as in horse racing) - abbreviation ➜ 単勝式

expression / adverb:

• honestly speaking; in truth; in all honesty; to be frank

expression:

• the more you do (it), the... (e.g. "the more you drink, the better it tastes")

expression:

• the light comes from the East; the light rises from the East; ex oriente lux - from the Roman saying, in reference to Constantinople - proverb

adjective:

• low (rank, degree, value, content, quality, etc.) Antonym: 高い・高い
• low (position); close to the ground
• short (height)
• deep (voice); in a low key; low (volume)

noun:

• nine traditional astrological signs in Onmyōdō, each corresponding to the year of a person's birth and used to create a horoscope ➜ 陰陽道・一白【いっぱく】・二黒【じこく】・三碧【さんぺき】・四緑【しろく】・五黄【ごおう】・六白【ろっぱく】・七赤【しちせき】・八白【はっぱく】・九紫【きゅうし】

noun:

• stealing a car by rear-ending it lightly and having a friend jump in and drive off after the driver gets out - slang

noun:

• coloring fabric by placing a paper stencil over it and brushing on the dye; fabric colored in such a manner - obscure term

noun:

• courteous language (i.e. humble language in which an action or object is not directed toward the listener or a third party) ➜ 謙譲語ＩＩ

expression:

• in public; in company

expression:

• in response; in concert

noun:

• wrapping something in a bamboo mat
• wrapping somebody in a bamboo mat and throwing him in a river (Edo period unofficial punishment)

noun:

• New Year's holiday; period encompassing the close of the old year and the start of the New Year - four character idiom

noun:

• group of mountain nomads (in Japan); group of mountain people; the Sanka

noun:

• this duty; this task; this job

pronoun:

• I (as the person in charge of this task)

noun:

• rock partially submerged in water; rock partially emerging from the water
• pumice stone

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to weigh one thing against the other; to act in consideration of; to compare and take into consideration

noun:

• ghostleg lottery; ladder lottery; lottery in which participants trace a line across a lattice pattern to determine the winner

noun:

• peacock monitor (Varanus auffenbergi, species of carnivorous monitor lizard native to the island of Roti in Indonesia); Auffenberg's monitor