noun:

• ceremony on the fifth day of the 10th lunar month in which the emperor would watch prize archery (Heian and Kamakura periods)
• first firing of the bow (after the New Year or the reconstruction of the archery range (in military families))

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to scatter; to cause a shower of
• to disperse; to distribute; to spread
• to resolve (a symptom, condition, etc.); to relieve; to get rid of; to cure
• to distract; to divert - as 気を散らす, etc. ➜ 気を散らす

suffix / godan ~す verb:

• to do ... wildly (i.e. disorderly or frequently); to do ... all over the place - after the -masu stem of a verb

noun:

• head (of a household, etc.); leader; master
• owner; proprietor; proprietress
• subject (of a rumour, etc.); doer (of a deed)
• guardian spirit (e.g. long-resident beast, usu. with mystical powers); long-time resident (or employee, etc.)
• husband

pronoun:

• you - familiar language ➜ おぬし

noun / ~する noun:

• dubbing; adding a new audio (usu. voice) track to an existing video, film, etc. ➜ 吹き替え
• dubbing; re-recording existing video or audio data to a new DVD, tape, etc.

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to fall (of rain, snow, ash, etc.); to come down
• to form (of frost)
• to beam down (of sunlight or moonlight); to pour in
• to visit (of luck, misfortune, etc.); to come; to arrive

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to go under; to pass under; to go through; to pass through
• to dive (into or under the water) ➜ 潜る【もぐる】
• to evade; to get around; to slip past
• to survive; to surmount

noun:

• flying; leaping; flight; leap - abbreviation ➜ 飛ぶ
• naught; zero; oh - when reading a number aloud
• flying fish (esp. the Japanese flying fish, Cypselurus agoo) ➜ 飛魚
• running out of points (zero or fewer); game ending due to a player running out of points ［飛び］ - Mahjong term

noun:

• øre; Danish or Norwegian monetary unit equal to one hundredth of a krone - From Danish or Norwegian ➜ クローネ
• öre; Swedish monetary unit equal to one hundredth of a krona - From Swedish ➜ クローナ

noun:

• five punishments (of ancient China: tattooing, cutting off the nose, cutting off a leg, castration or confinement, death) - archaism
• five punishments (of the ritsuryo system: light caning, severe caning, imprisonment, exile, death) ➜ 律令制

noun:

• five punishments (of the ritsuryo system: light caning, severe caning, imprisonment, exile, death) - archaism ➜ 律令制
• five punishments (of ancient China: tattooing, cutting off the nose, cutting off a leg, castration or confinement, death) ➜ 五刑

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to glare at; to scowl at; to glower at
• to stare intensely at; to examine carefully
• to estimate; to guess; to suspect; to judge
• to keep an eye on someone (e.g. a suspicious or untrustworthy person); to watch - often as 睨まれる ➜ 睨まれる
• to take account of; to take into consideration

noun:

• (of Chinese) pronunciation of kanji with a medial between the initial consonant and center vowel
• (of Japanese) the long "o" vowel arising from combination of the "o" and "u" or "e" and "u" sounds

noun:

• road; path; street; lane; passage
• route; way
• distance; journey
• road (e.g. to victory); course
• way (of living, proper conduct, etc.); moral principles
• teachings (esp. Confucian or Buddhist); dogma
• field (e.g. of medicine); subject; speciality
• means; way; method

noun:

• box; case; chest; package; pack; crate
• car (of a train, etc.)
• shamisen case; shamisen
• public building; community building - often written as ハコ - colloquialism ➜ 箱物
• man who carries a geisha's shamisen - archaism ➜ 箱屋
• receptacle for human waste; feces (faeces) - archaism

suffix / counter:

• counter for boxes (or boxed objects)

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to send (a thing); to dispatch; to despatch; to transmit
• to take or escort (a person somewhere); to see off (a person)
• to bid farewell (to the departed); to bury
• to spend (time); to live one's life
• to pass (down the line)
• to affix okurigana ➜ 送り仮名

noun:

• blow striking with the flat of the sword
• to slap ➜ 平手打ち
• metal flattened by striking
• tape; flat braid
• type of flat ornamental hairpin made of silver and inscribed with a clan's crest or patterns of birds and flowers ➜ 簪

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to cut; to cut through; to perform (surgery)
• to sever (connections, ties) ➜ 縁を切る
• to turn off (e.g. the light)
• to terminate (e.g. a conversation); to hang up (the phone); to disconnect ➜ 電話を切る
• to punch (a ticket); to tear off (a stub)
• to open (something sealed)
• to start
• to set (a limit); to do (something) in less or within a certain time; to issue (stamps, vouchers, etc.)
• to reduce; to decrease; to discount ➜ 値切る
• to shake off (water, etc.); to let drip-dry; to let drain
• to cross; to traverse
• to criticize sharply
• to act decisively; to do (something noticeable); to go first; to make (certain facial expressions, in kabuki)
• to turn (vehicle, steering wheel, etc.)
• to curl (a ball); to bend; to cut
• to shuffle (cards)
• to discard a tile - Mahjong term
• to dismiss; to sack; to let go; to expulse; to excommunicate
• to dig (a groove); to cut (a stencil, on a mimeograph)
• to trump ➜ 切り札
• to cut (the connection between two groups) (in go)
• to start a fire (with wood-wood friction or by striking a metal against stone) - also written as 鑽る
• to draw (a shape) in the air (with a sword, etc.)

auxiliary verb / godan ~る verb:

• to finish; to complete - after the -masu stem of a verb ➜ 疲れきる

godan ~ぶ verb / intransitive verb:

• to play; to enjoy oneself; to have a good time
• to mess about (with alcohol, gambling, philandery, etc.)
• to be idle; to do nothing; to be unused
• to go to (for pleasure or for study) - as 〜に遊ぶ
• to intentionally throw a ball to lower the batter's concentration - Baseball term

noun:

• lintel of the alcove in a tea room or a window in a shoin-style reception room
• cloud-shaped carving on the bottom of a transom
• metallic bowl used to hold the charcoal in a wooden hibachi ➜ 火鉢

noun / ~する noun:

• raid; military attack by a mobile unit; hit-and-run attack; search-and-kill mission; search-and-destroy mission; military action without a predetermined target; attacking the enemy or assisting allies as the opportunity arises

noun:

• shortstop; short - abbreviation - Baseball term ➜ 遊撃手

prefix noun:

• (of) Japanese descent

noun:

• non-Japanese of Japanese descent; nikkeijin - abbreviation ➜ 日系人
• company, etc. set up with Japanese capital; company managed by Japanese or non-Japanese of Japanese descent

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to join a household (as a housewife or househusband); to become a housewife; to become a househusband

noun:

• leader of a (large) group ➜ 小頭
• large decorative black flagpole tassel made from tail hair (of a yak, horse, ox, etc.) or dyed hemp ➜ 大纛
• leader of a (large) group
• puffbird (any bird of family Bucconidae) - usually written using kana alone
• first makushita rikishi listed on the banzuke - Sumo term

noun:

• lipstick that actors put on their earlobes, cheeks and corners of eyes
• lipstick discreetly put on the earlobes or the corners of the eyes (by women)

noun:

• side dish; okazu; side dish (meat, fish, pickles, etc.) accompanying the rice in a typical Japanese meal
• food for thought (esp. in the context of conversation, or material for assisting arousal during masturbation) ［おかず・オカズ］ - sometimes オガズ
• fill; fill-in (drumming)