noun:

• water pistol; squirt gun; water gun

adjectival noun / noun:

• fairness; just and upright; aboveboard - four character idiom

godan ~う verb:

• to rage; to run amok (amuck); to tear around

noun / ~する noun:

• make a choice among many; select the good (desirable, necessary, relevant) and discard the rest; decision to adopt or reject - four character idiom

noun:

• crawling on all fours; getting on one's hands and knees; falling flat ➜ 四つん這い【よつんばい】

noun:

• political operations; (Heian Period) political operations and ceremonies of the Imperial Court; (Edo Period) civil suit

noun:

• equivalence operation; IF-AND-ONLY-IF operation; IFF - IT term

noun / ~の noun:

• bittersweet; having mingled feelings of joy and sorrow; joy and sorrow alternating in one's heart - four character idiom

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to read too much into things; to get wrong ideas by letting one's imagination run wild; to have a groundless suspicion

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to stumble a step or two forward (when trying to stop); to pass one's destination and stumble a step or two forward; to totter

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to scurry home; to run home; to fly back

noun / ~の noun:

• within a marriage; between husband and wife; conjugal

expression / ichidan verb:

• to live through hell; to go to hell and back; to suffer dire straits

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to sound shrill (of a voice); to sound high-pitched and excited; to sound hollow
• to get excited; to become restless
• to be thrown too high; to come in high - Baseball term

noun:

• happy-go-lucky fellow; easygoing and indifferent person; pococurante ➜ 極楽蜻蛉

expression:

• time flies like an arrow; time and tide wait for no man; life is short - proverb

noun:

• orthographical variants; words with the same pronunciation and meaning, but different written forms; spelling inconsistency

noun:

• one thing or another; this and that; something or another

expression:

• (whether at) peace or at war; in peacetime and at war; order and chaos

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• gasping for breath; puffing and panting; wheezing - onomatopoeia

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• time passes; the days and months go by; the months roll on

noun / ~する noun:

• happy family circle; sitting in a family circle and enjoying conversation; harmony in a family - four character idiom

noun:

• going round in circles; game of cat and mouse; pointless and repetitive back-and-forth - idiom
• itachigokko; Japanese children's game - original meaning

godan ~す verb:

• to draw off; to run out; to flush out

noun / ~する noun:

• whirling; going round and round; rushing a person off his feet