noun:

• foot towel; cloth for wiping the bottoms of one's feet

noun:

• to think or act fairly without concern for one's own benefit - four character idiom

noun:

• not fishing; needing more than one tile to win - Mahjong term ➜ テンパイ

noun:

• nowcast; prediction of the very near future (esp. one hour weather forecast)

noun:

• large regional newspaper (usu. sold in more than one prefecture)

godan ~ぶ verb / intransitive verb:

• to fall down; to fall over
• to turn out; to play out ［ころぶ］ - oft. as どう転んでも
• to abandon Christianity (and convert to Buddhism); to apostatize ［ころぶ］ - in early Japanese Christianity
• to roll; to tumble ➜ ころがる
• (for a geisha) to prostitute (herself) in secret - archaism

expression:

• and so on; and so forth; et cetera; and such; and the like

noun / ~する noun:

• comment; criticism

ichidan verb:

• to cut up; to cut and discard; to eliminate systematically (in fault-finding); to isolate

noun:

• pulling out by the roots; pulling up roots and all

~の noun:

• native born; true born ➜ 生え抜き

noun / ~する noun:

• staying up late; keeping late hours; sitting up late at night; nighthawk

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to haul up; to pull up (with both hands); to reel in

interjection:

• (expression of) effort or strain; Yo-heave-ho!

~する noun:

• to butter up; to suck up to

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to prune; to trim; to cut back; to clip
• to reap (a crop) and put into storage; to harvest
• to prune (a manuscript); to cut down

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to open (e.g. doors) - esp. 開く
• to open (e.g. business, etc.) - esp. 開く
• to be empty - esp. 空く
• to be vacant; to be available; to be free - esp. 空く
• to be open (e.g. neckline, etc.) - esp. 明く
• to have been opened (of one's eyes, mouth, etc.) - esp. 明く
• to come to an end - esp. 明く

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to open (one's eyes, mouth, etc.) - esp. 明く

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to have a hole; to form a gap; to have an interval (between events) ➜ 穴が開く

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

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• spring; springtime
• New Year
• prime (of one's life, etc.)
• adolescence; puberty
• sexuality

noun:

• native Japanese reading of a Chinese character ➜ 音【おん】

noun / suffix:

• precept; lesson; one's teachings ➜ 処世訓【しょせいくん】

noun / ~する noun:

• sponsorship (i.e. conducting under one's auspices); promotion; organizing; organising; hosting; staging

adverb / adjectival noun:

• intently; single‐mindedly; devotedly; solely; earnestly; with all one's heart ➜ 一向【ひたぶる】

noun:

• tire track
• traces of a person or thing; path one has taken
• locus - Mathematics term

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• comfortably; peacefully; with one's mind at ease; calmly; without worries
• (growing) quickly

noun:

• just cause; good reason; pretext; justification - four character idiom
• duty (to one's country, sovereign, etc.) - four character idiom

adjective:

• no match for
• unbearable
• unable; can't do; beyond one's power

adverb:

• just (now)
• quite (near)
• unintentionally; unconsciously; by mistake; against one's better judgement (judgment)

suffix noun / noun:

• itself

noun:

• one's own body; oneself

adverb:

• originally; naturally; by nature; from the start