expression / ichidan verb:

• to excel in one thing; to be a master in an art

noun:

• thumbing (in boxing, poking a thumb in one's opponent's eye)

noun / ~する noun:

• sulking in bed; going to bed in a huff

noun:

• doctor working in a hospital; physician working in public practice ➜ 開業医

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to participate in (as a member); to get involved in - idiom

expression:

• the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence - proverb

noun / ~の noun:

• conveying the will of the governing to the governed; top-down (system) - four character idiom

noun:

• "before the spirit of the deceased" (written on the condolence-money envelope)

noun:

• waist (the part of the pants located above the crotch); pant rise

noun / ~の noun:

• bones of the palm (esp. the metacarpals, but sometimes also including the carpals) - obscure term ➜ 中手骨

noun:

• land-tax rate during the Edo period (the government took 60 percent of the year's rice crop and the farmers kept 40 percent) - four character idiom

noun:

• being stuck between a rock and a hard place; being in a dilemma; being torn between conflicting demands

expression:

• better than a poke in the eye; better than none at all; better than nothing - idiom

noun:

• the five brights (high-scoring combination in hanafuda); the five light cards; the five hikari cards ➜ 花札

noun:

• Sichuan (province in China) ➜ 四川【しせん】
• Shu; Shu Han; kingdom in China during the Three Kingdoms era (221-263) ➜ 三国【さんごく】
• Shu; kingdom in ancient China (-316 BCE)

noun:

• sukiyaki; thin slices of beef, cooked with various vegetables in a table-top cast-iron pan - Food term

noun:

• giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis)
• qilin (Chinese unicorn)
• Kirin (brand of beer) ［麒麟］
• horse that can ride 1000 ri in a day ［騏驎］ - archaism

noun:

• statue of the birth of Buddha (right hand pointing at the heavens, left hand pointing at the earth) - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• removal (e.g. of a building); dismantling (e.g. a tent); striking (e.g. a stage set)
• withdrawal (of troops); evacuation; retreating

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to rise in revolt; to raise the standard of revolt

noun:

• Koya paper; Japanese paper produced in the vicinity of Mt. Koya ➜ 和紙

noun / ~する noun:

• a rise above a certain level (of a stock price, etc.) Antonym: 台割れ

noun:

• crime of plotting a crime; crime of preparing to commit an offense; preparation of a crime - Law term

pre-noun adjectival:

• that (something or someone distant from the speaker, close to the listener; actions of the listener, or ideas expressed or understood by the listener); the ➜ 何の【どの】・此の・其れ・彼の

interjection:

• um...; er...; uh...

noun:

• Onmyōdō; way of Yin and Yang; occult divination system based on the Taoist theory of the five elements