noun:

• intersection on a Go board

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to go into a huddle

noun:

• muscle; tendon; sinew
• vein; artery
• fiber; fibre; string
• line; stripe; streak
• reason; logic ➜ 筋が通る
• plot; storyline
• lineage; descent
• school (e.g. of scholarship or arts)
• aptitude; talent
• source (of information, etc.); circle; channel
• well-informed person (in a transaction)
• logical move (in go, shogi, etc.)
• ninth vertical line - Shōgi term
• seam on a helmet
• gristly fish paste (made of muscle, tendons, skin, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ 筋蒲鉾
• social position; status - archaism

suffix noun / noun / ~の noun:

• on (a river, road, etc.); along

suffix / counter:

• counter for long thin things; counter for roads or blocks when giving directions
• (Edo period) counter for hundreds of mon (obsolete unit of currency) - archaism

expression:

• being lavish with one's money; spending a huge sum of money at once on a treat - four character idiom

noun:

• dripping liquid (soup, sauce, etc.) from the tips of one's chopsticks (a breach of etiquette)

noun / ~の noun:

• one's circumstances or condition, esp. compared to that of another ➜ ばつが悪い
• coherence (e.g. of a conversation)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to grovel; to go down on one's hands and knees ➜ 這い蹲う

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to grovel; to go down on one's hands and knees ➜ 這い蹲る

noun:

• stairs at the front of a noh stage, which go over the white gravel separating the audience from the stage ➜ 白洲

noun:

• bottom of one's heart; depths of one's mind; innermost thoughts

adverb:

• completely (from the bottom of one's heart); truly

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to hit a nerve; to go for the throat; to touch a sore spot - idiom ➜ 痛い所

noun / ~する noun:

• one swing; one shake (e.g. of pepper)

noun:

• one sword

noun / ~の noun:

• one eye; one of one's eyes

noun:

• Murphy's Law ("Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong")

noun:

• Hon'inbō; Honinbo; grand master of the game of go ➜ 本因坊戦

noun:

• volume number; reel number; scroll number
• number of volumes; number of reels; number of scrolls; number of turns (of a coil); number of windings (of a transformer, electromagnet, etc.)
• a set number of scrolls to be read by a Buddhist monk ［かんじゅ・かんず］

noun:

• candlelight service (e.g. in a church)
• ceremony during a wedding reception where the bride and the groom go from table to table lighting a candle at each

noun:

• waiting for one tile to finish one's pair and one's hand while the rest of one's hand is exposed; waiting for half of one's pair with four melds exposed - Mahjong term ➜ 単騎待ち【たんきまち】

expression / ichidan verb:

• to break off with (e.g. one's lover) - idiom
• to be sharp enough to cut one's skin (of a new banknote, etc.)

noun:

• go-go

noun / prefix:

• both (e.g. both shoulders, etc.)

noun:

• ryo (obsolete unit of currency)
• 41-42 g (one sixteenth of a kin) ➜ 斤
• 2 tan (measure of fabric size) ➜ 反【たん】

counter:

• counter for carriages (e.g. in a train); counter for vehicles - also written 輛 and 輌

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to turn toward; to look (up, down, etc.)
• to face (e.g. east); to look out on
• to point to
• to be suited to; to be fit for
• to go in the direction of; to lean towards (of a feeling)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to cross over; to cross; to pass through; to pass over (out of); to go beyond; to go past - esp. 越える
• to exceed; to surpass; to be more (than) - esp. 超える

noun / ~する noun:

• performing a part in one's own play; playing a musical piece that one has written - four character idiom
• doing everything by oneself (from preparation to execution)
• put-up job; charade
• sock-puppeting (i.e. pretending to be more than one person on the Internet)

noun:

• archaic period of time (usu. a period of approx. two hours corresponding to one of the signs of the Chinese zodiac)
• carving; engraving; cutting; mincing ［刻］
• victory ［剋］
• strictness; cruelty