conjunction / interjection:

• come; come now; come along; go on; hurry up
• well; who knows; I don't know...; uh; hmm
• well now; let's see; there we go; all right - said when surprised or happy
• about that; you see

noun:

• (being beholden to someone for a favor of) a night's lodging and a meal - four character idiom

noun:

• unauthorized travel; riding without a valid ticket (e.g. on a train); stealing a ride

noun:

• false start of a bout - Sumo term
• backsies (called when taking back a move in a game)

noun / ~する noun:

• caricaturing
• turning a movie, novel, etc. into a manga; making a comic version of something ➜ 漫画

noun:

• karayuki-san; young Japanese women who were sent to work (mainly as prostitutes) in foreign countries, esp. in Southeast Asia (Meiji to early Showa)

noun / ~する noun:

• cough; hawking
• laughing and talking at the same time; speak laughing

noun:

• stage made of Japanese cypress
• the limelight; the big time

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to do nothing but; to spend all one's time doing

noun / ~する noun:

• winning one's first election; being elected for the first time

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to eat something for the first time in the season

noun:

• short term; short time

noun:

• irregular time; irregular metre - Music term

expression / noun:

• next inning; next time

noun:

• election time; election period

noun:

• first time

~の noun:

• first; initial

noun:

• older brother; elder brother - honorific language ➜ お兄さん
• brother (as older-brother figure in friendly and or work relationship)
• young man; buddy; fella; laddie - vocative

noun:

• communicating while drinking (usu. with colleagues); communicating through drinking together; boozing with work people - from 飲み and コミュニケーション ➜ ノミュニケーション

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to settle peacefully; to work out peacefully; to come to an amicable solution; to become reconciled

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

expression:

• you've hit the nail on the head; that's just what I thought; that's exactly like I feel; that's exactly what I think, too

noun / ~する noun:

• rōnin; ronin; masterless samurai
• waiting for another chance to enter university after having failed the yearly entrance examination ［浪人］

noun:

• person out of work; jobless person ［浪人］
• wanderer; drifter ［浪人］ - orig. meaning - archaism

noun:

• (a) grain; (a) drop; (a) bead

noun:

• arranging a group of people so as to form a character or spell out a message

adjectival noun / noun:

• standing on formality; in a reserved manner; treating a friend as a stranger; unduly distant; formal - four character idiom