expression / godan ~ぶ verb:

• to be the subject of attention; to call people's attention; to be the rage; to be of interest

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to work assiduously; to give one's all; to make the utmost effort; to make (grind) one's body into dust [literal] - idiom ➜ 身を粉にする【みをこにする】

noun:

• side entrance; tradesman's entrance; service entrance; staff entrance

expression:

• without being able to help oneself; against one's will; compelling; pressing; irresistible ➜ 止むに止まれない・止むに止まれぬ

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• (just) out of curiosity; (just) in order to satisfy one's curiosity; aimed chiefly at amusing; sensational (e.g. magazine) - four character idiom

expression:

• one can say more with a look than with ten thousand words; the eyes cannot belie one's true thoughts; the eyes are the windows to the soul; eyes are as eloquent as the tongue - proverb ➜ 物を言う

godan ~す verb:

• to fly into a rage; to lose one's temper; to flare up; to break out

noun:

• crocodile monitor (Varanus salvadorii, species of carnivorous monitor lizard found in New Guinea); Salvadori's monitor; Papua monitor; artellia ➜ クロコダイルモニター

noun:

• human (in Ainu); one's fellow man; kin; comrade - From Ainu
• self-referential term used by the Ainu about their people ➜ アイヌ

expression / adverb:

• by choice; of one's own free will; on one's own initiative; off one's own bat

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to pull a wry face; to screw one's face up; to pucker one's face; to scowl; to grimace; to frown ➜ 顔を顰める・眉を顰める

noun:

• sweet rocket (Hesperis matronalis); dame's rocket; dame's violet; damask violet
• Chinese violet cress (Orychophragmus violaceus) ➜ 大紫羅欄花【オオアラセイトウ】

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to prepare oneself for the worst; to strengthen one's resolve; to accept one's fate; to prepare oneself - idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to break up and start anew; to break out of one's shell; to make a fresh start; to go outside oneself - idiom

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be precocious; to be mature for one's age; to seem grown-up; to seem mature

expression / ichidan verb:

• to resolve to do; to make up one's mind to do; to set one's heart on; to have one's heart set on

expression / ichidan verb:

• to pull oneself together; to focus one's mind; to brace oneself; to gird up one's loins ➜ 気を引き締める【きをひきしめる】

noun:

• stamp book; pilgrim's passport; souvenir seal albumn; book for collecting commemorative seals or stamps (at tourist sights, temples, shrines, etc.)

expression / noun:

• changing seasons; season's transition; transition from one season to the next; turn of the seasons; turning of the seasons ➜ 移り変わり【うつりかわり】

expression:

• a fox is not taken twice in the same snare; there are no birds in last year's nest; there aren't always loach under the willow tree [literal]; good luck does not always repeat itself - proverb

noun:

• stamp book; pilgrim's passport; souvenir seal albumn; book for collecting commemorative seals or stamps (at tourist sights, temples, shrines, etc.)

noun:

• Russian tortoise (Agrionemys horsfieldii); Horsfield's tortoise; Central Asian tortoise; steppe tortoise; four-toed tortoise

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be frank; to speak one's mind; to open one's heart; to have a heart-to-heart talk (with someone) ➜ 打ち明ける【うちあける】

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to work assiduously; to give one's all; to make the utmost effort; to make (grind) one's body into dust [literal]

noun:

• stag seaweed (Codium fragile); green sea fingers; dead man's fingers; felty fingers; forked felt-alga; sponge seaweed; green sponge; green fleece; oyster thief