noun:

• ground; land; earth; soil - abbreviation
• the region in question; the local area
• skin
• texture; fabric; material; weave
• base; background
• one's true nature
• narrative (i.e. descriptive part of a story)
• real life; actuality
• captured territory (in the game of go)
• noh chorus ➜ 地謡
• accompaniment music (in Japanese dance)
• basic phrase (in Japanese music; usu. repetitive)
• base part (of multiple shamisens)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to feel exhausted (after having been stressed); to feel spent; to feel relieved (from stress)
• to become stale (i.e. of a carbonated beverage); to go flat; to lose flavor; to lose flavour

adverb:

• sound of heavy breathing - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• blowing on something (e.g. to cool it down)

noun:

• dormitory; dorm; residence hall; student residence ➜ 寮【りょう】・学生寮【がくせいりょう】
• multi-bed room shared with unrelated travelers (e.g. in inexpensive guesthouse)

noun:

• tone (of voice)
• tone (e.g. in Chinese) - Linguistics term

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• teary-eyed ➜ 潤む【うるむ】
• damp (e.g. skin, hair); moist

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to speed; to tear away
• to skip over (e.g. pages)

adverb / ~と adverb:

• grumbling; complaining; muttering - onomatopoeia
• crumpling (e.g. paper) - onomatopoeia

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to project; to stand out; to jut out; to protrude
• to go somewhere (e.g. for work); to proceed to; to leave for; to go on an official tour; to go on a business trip

noun / ~する noun:

• playing with something with one's fingers
• searching with one's fingers (e.g. in the dark)

noun:

• wall material; wall-finishing material
• wallplate (e.g. in a mine)

noun / ~の noun:

• undesirable friend; bad company; bad companion; bad influence ➜ 良友
• partner in crime (i.e. good friend); close friend; buddy

noun:

• tide

expression:

• tied (e.g. tied aid)

noun:

• saliva; spit; spittle
• fluid (in Chinese medicine, esp. a colourless bodily fluid, e.g. tears)

noun / ~する noun:

• physical labor; physical labour; physical work
• forced labor imposed by the government (e.g. under the ritsuryo system) ➜ 力役【りきやく】

noun / ~する noun:

• compounding of medicine; dispensing (medicine)
• dispensation (e.g. of heaven); providence; combining; arranging; putting together

noun:

• new translation
• post-Xuanzang Chinese translation (i.e. mid 7th century onward) - Buddhism term

noun:

• short roughly woven fence - usu. not 間狭 - archaism
• divider between boxes (i.e. for box seats) in a theatre, etc.

noun:

• progressive form - Linguistics term
• in progress (e.g. of a project)

noun:

• yellow clothes
• Lama's clothes (e.g. Dalai Lama)

noun:

• trucking
• tracking (e.g. in computer graphic) - IT term

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to imitate; to copy; to mimic ➜ 擬する
• to enter someone as a candidate
• to press (e.g. a weapon against someone's back)
• to compare; to liken

noun / ~する noun:

• staring-out (down) game; game in which two children looking at each other try to make the opponents laugh first
• constant looking at something (e.g. the computer screen, the clock, etc.)

noun:

• slip of the pen; mistake in writing
• something ruined by a mistake in writing (e.g. postcard)

noun:

• foreign settlement; concession
• reservation (e.g. American Indian)