noun:

• fellow (at an academic institution, etc.)

expression / noun:

• attention seeker; look-at-me - colloquialism

noun:

• cicada singing at dusk

noun:

• love call; calling out to someone with love or good will
• phone call to a loved one
• fervent request; heartfelt appeal; passionate call to action

noun:

• placing ropes or wires around trees to protect them from the snow; ropes stretched from the top of a tree to the lower branches to prevent their breaking under heavy snow ➜ 雪折れ

noun:

• external character; user-defined character; character not included in the JIS character set - IT term
• kanji not included in the jōyō or jinmeiyō list ➜ 常用漢字・人名用漢字
• foreign letters (esp. of a western language); foreign writing

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• cooking for oneself; cooking one's own food; doing one's own cooking; making food oneself; self-catering
• scanning a book or magazine to create an ebook by oneself

expression:

• something that comes too late and is useless; like a chrysanthemum prepared for the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar for the Chrysanthemum festival but that blooms only on the tenth ➜ 重陽

noun:

• "Helping Hands" comedy performance; performance in which one person wears a haori on their shoulders, while another person behind them puts their arms through the sleeves of the haori and feeds the person in front ➜ 羽織

expression:

• take a long walk off a short pier; go stick your head in a pig; bash your head against the corner of a block of tofu and die [literal]

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to grow senile; to be childish with age
• to be mentally slow; to be befuddled
• to play stupid; to say something stupid (oft. on purpose; esp. as part of a comedic routine)
• to become engrossed (in something) ［ほうける］

expression / ichidan verb:

• to put one's palms together (e.g. when praying or asking for something); to place one's hands together
• to compete against somebody; to play (a game, match, etc.) against somebody - idiom

noun:

• striking sparks with flint and steel or by rubbing sticks together (usu. to start a fire); fire lit by sparks from flint and steel, etc. ➜ 鑽る
• Shinto fire-purification ceremony - Shintō term

noun:

• penitence by chanting sutras; confession (of sins); Tendai ritual of chanting Lotus Sutra or to Kanzeon, Amida, or Kichijoten for forgiveness of sins performed unknowingly - Buddhism term

noun / suffix noun:

• penitence sutra - Buddhism term

noun:

• guidebook to penitence - Buddhism term

noun:

• a verse (e.g. in the Bible); stanza; paragraph; passage; a joint; section; a tune; note; strain; measure

expression:

• a friend is a good thing to have; a good friend is a great blessing

expression:

• a friend is a good thing to have; a good friend is a great blessing ➜ 持つべきものは友

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to make (the best) use of; to put to good use; to leverage (skills, attributes, experience, etc.); to capitalise on (experience, etc.)
• to let live; to keep alive
• to revive; to resuscitate; to bring back to life
• to restore (a deleted passage; in proofreading)

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to demarcate; to delimit; to divide (an area); to mark off; to cut off - esp. 区切る
• to punctuate; to put an end to (e.g. a sentence); to insert pauses or breaks (e.g. when reading aloud) - esp. 句切る

noun:

• adoration which is performed three times or repeatedly; act of worship which is performed three times or repeatedly

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to complain of itching; to be bothered by an itch (or rash, etc.); to feel itchy; to have an itch (or rash, etc.); to itch

noun:

• a snipe and a clam; a snipe and a mussel ➜ 鷸蚌の争い

noun:

• salt pan (used for boiling seawater to make salt)
• cooking a fish inside a salt crust - abbreviation ➜ 塩釜焼き
• candy made with a wrapping of sweetened rice flour (looking like a salt crust)

~する verb (spec.):

• to be on the verge of; to be about to; to be on the point of

adverb:

• finally; at last; ultimately; in the end