noun:

• variable measure of fabric (28.8 cm in width); for kimonos: at least 10 m in length; for haori: at least 7.27 m in length; for other clothes: at least 6.06 m in length
• 300 tsubo (991.74 meters square, 0.24506 acres)
• six ken (10.91 m)

noun / ~する noun:

• coming and going; keeping in touch; visiting each other
• street traffic; highway

noun / ~する noun:

• pinky swear; pinky promise; hooking each other's little fingers to confirm a promise ➜ 指切拳万、嘘ついたら針千本呑ます【ゆびきりげんまんうそついたらはりせんぼんのます】

expression / adverb:

• one more; another; the other - colloquialism
• not quite; not very good; lacking ➜ 今一【いまいち】

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to fly about; to flutter about; to flit about; to fly past each other

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• biennially; every second year; every other year

noun:

• lesson learned from someone's else mistake; object lesson; food for thought; stones from other mountains (can be used to polish one's own gems) [literal] - idiom ➜ 他山の石以て玉を攻むべし

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to be profoundly compatible; to be inseparable; to be so close as to reveal to each other the bottom of one's heart

adverb:

• alternately; in turn; one after the other

~の noun / adjectival noun / noun:

• facing; across from; opposite; facing each other

noun / ~する noun:

• the situation reverses itself; the table is turned; the shoe is on the other foot - four character idiom

adverb:

• though imperfect; somehow; somehow or other

adverb:

• especially; above all; particularly; among other things

noun:

• pinky swear; pinky promise; making a pledge by hooking each other's little fingers ➜ 指切拳万、嘘ついたら針千本呑ます【ゆびきりげんまんうそついたらはりせんぼんのます】・指切り

noun:

• catalpa bow; spirit bow; bow used to summon spirits, made of Japanese cherry birch, catalpa, or other wood - Shintō term

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to profit at someone else's expense; to rob Peter to pay Paul; to take risks with other people's money - idiom ➜ 他人のふんどしで相撲を取る【たにんのふんどしですもうをとる】

expression:

• there in body, but not in spirit; distracted; in one ear and out the other

~と adverb:

• feelings; memories; imagined items or dreams that sprout up one after the other - onomatopoeia ➜ にょきにょき

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to profit at someone else's expense; to rob Peter to pay Paul; to take risks with other people's money ➜ 人のふんどしで相撲を取る【ひとのふんどしですもうをとる】

adverb / ~の noun:

• competent enough; pretty good; like other people

noun:

• another dimension; different level; whole other level

noun:

• comparing and adjusting; reconciling; knocking into shape; bouncing of ideas, opinions, etc. off each other to obtain a fine-tuned integrated whole
• lapping; precision surface finishing; mating by rubbing together - Engineering term
• margination - usually written using kana alone - Medicine term

expression / adverb:

• one more; another; the other ➜ 今一つ【いまひとつ】
• not quite; not very good ➜ 今一つ【いまひとつ】

noun / ~する noun:

• crossing swords; fighting with swords; cutting each other (in fighting)

expression:

• the good you do for others is good you do yourself; those who are kind benefit themselves; compassion is not for other people's benefit [literal] - proverb
• you can't save others (from themselves) - incorrect usage - proverb