noun:

• large hole
• great deficit; heavy losses
• big and unexpected winnings; a killing (e.g. on a race)
• dark horse (horse racing)

noun / ~する noun:

• working overtime
• detention; being kept in (e.g. after school)

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to twirl; to spin
• to fiddle with; to change (e.g. wording)

noun / ~する noun:

• squatting; sitting
• breaking down; stopping (e.g. of car engine)

noun:

• gift; boon
• (good) result; fruit (e.g. of one's efforts)

noun / ~する noun:

• building; construction
• group effort by Buddhist practitioners; group activities by a community (e.g. cleaning, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• piercing through; penetrating; perforating
• persisting; sticking (e.g. to beliefs)

noun:

• mekuri karuta (card game popular in the late Edo period)
• hanafuda; Japanese playing cards (12 suits of 4 cards, each suit representing a month indicated by a flower) ➜ 花札

expression / ichidan verb:

• to take care of; to bring up under one's personal care
• to kill with one's own hands
• to do personally; to handle (e.g. a job)
• to request that someone deal with (something)

adjectival noun / ~と adverb / noun:

• jam-packed (physically or of schedule, etc.) - onomatopoeia
• grinding noise
• precisely; correctly (e.g. when working, etc.)

noun:

• acrida cinerea; oriental longheaded locust ➜ 精霊飛蝗

noun / ~する noun:

• playing around; having an active sex life; casual homosexual sexual activity - esp. gay sex ➜ 発展【はってん】

noun:

• (gay) cruising spot; (gay) pick-up joint (e.g. bar) - abbreviation ➜ ハッテン場

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to dam up; to hold back; to keep back; to bring to a halt; to intercept
• to stem (an activity); to check (e.g. progress)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to send; to dispatch; to despatch

godan ~す verb / auxiliary verb:

• to bestow (favour, etc.); to grant (e.g. pardon) - after て form, slightly pompous - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• clearing; cleaning up
• clearing; settling (e.g. payment)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to hit the bull's-eye
• to go as expected; to succeed (e.g. a plan)

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to point down; to look down Antonym: 上向く
• to get worse; to begin to fall (e.g. of a price)

noun:

• interpreter (languages, events, etc.) ➜ 通訳者・説明者
• interpreter; software that decodes and executes a high-level language (e.g. Java, Python, PHP) - IT term

noun:

• guard on sword, polearms, etc.; flange
• brim; visor (e.g. of a hat)

noun:

• standing

~する noun:

• to stand; to leave (e.g. for curd to form, fermentation to occur, etc.)

noun:

• appetizer
• later date; post-dating (e.g. a letter or cheque) ➜ 先日付け

noun:

• opening (of a bottle); broaching
• beginning; opening; commencement (e.g. of sales); first sale

noun:

• imperturbability; steadfastness
• cool head in an emergency; keeping one's calm (e.g. during a fight) - Martial Arts term

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to shake; to tremble; to sway; to flicker
• to be unsettled; to be unstable; to fluctuate; to waver (e.g. between options); to vacillate; to seesaw

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to draw in; to take in; to retract
• to withdraw; to take back (e.g. words)

noun / ~する noun:

• digestion (of food)
• digestion (of information); assimilation; thorough understanding
• consumption; absorption; using up; meeting (e.g. a quota); completion
• losing one's form and turning into something else - orig. meaning - archaism