noun:

• purpose for which money is spent; the way money is spent; how goods are used

noun / ~する noun:

• running errands; going on errands
• (transaction of) business; going about one's business
• doing one's business (i.e. at the toilet); going to the washroom
• purveying; purveyor - esp. 用達 ➜ 御用達

noun:

• echo; reverberation
• sound (esp. the distinctive sound of an object or activity, e.g. rain, gun, gallop, drum); noise
• quality of a sound (e.g. a fine phrase, clear voice, resonant bell); feeling of a sound; emotion or feeling inspired by something heard or read

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to say the same thing over and over again; to talk until one is blue in the face

noun:

• great impropriety (esp. towards the imperial family) - archaism
• crime against the imperial family (or a shrine dedicated to them, etc.) ➜ 八虐

noun:

• heavy rotation; frequently broadcasting or listening to the same music; frequently wearing the same outfit

noun:

• side-foot (e.g. in soccer); kick with the side of the foot - From English "sidekick"
• side kick (e.g. in martial arts)
• sidekick; companion

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to advance on; to close in; to march on; to descend on (the enemy); to move towards; to surge forward (crowd, wave of nostalgia, wave, etc.); to rush for (the door); to inundate; to overwhelm; to push aside

noun:

• persons organized into gangs and wearing flashy clothes, who styled themselves as "chivalrous men" (Edo period) ➜ 男伊達

noun:

• high barometric pressure to the west, low pressure to the east - four character idiom

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to see through to the finish; to be seen to the end

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to take the initiative; to forestall; to beat to the punch

expression / adverbial noun / ~の noun:

• in the same manner as before; the same as always

particle:

• endorsing and questioning the preceding statement - sentence ending particle
• lamenting reflections on the preceding statement - sentence ending particle

noun:

• everywhere in the capital (e.g. Tokyo); everyone in the capital

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be performed (on the stage)
• to be in the limelight

expression:

• the trouble is that ...; the problem is that ...; unfortunately; annoyingly ➜ 困った事

noun:

• having food stuck around the mouth; having food all over the face

noun:

• daily employment; hiring by the day; day laborer; day labourer

noun:

• Shōwa restoration; Showa restoration; call for Imperial restoration by militarists in the 1930s

noun:

• light used for brightly lighting up a plaza, building, etc.

noun / ~の noun:

• silk gauze (esp. used in light clothing for high summer)

adjectival noun / noun:

• no good; not serving its purpose; useless; broken
• hopeless; wasted; in vain; purposeless
• cannot; must not; not allowed

noun:

• neutral point (in go); intersection owned by neither player at the end of a game

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be left without means of sustenance; to be turned adrift in the streets; to be rendered homeless; to be out in the cold; to be down and out - idiom

noun:

• wearing one's pants low (so that they hang from the hip rather than the waist); pants worn in such a manner - abbreviation - slang