noun:

• first letter of a word; capital letter (at the start of a word or sentence)
• initials (of one's name)

noun:

• ridge of earth between rice fields
• ridge between grooves in threshold or lintel
• footpath between rice fields; causeway - abbreviation ➜ 畦道

godan ~ぐ verb / transitive / intransitive verb:

• to support (someone) financially; to finance; to supply (money); to give (in support)

godan ~ぐ verb / transitive:

• to present (money or gifts) to a monarch - archaism

expression:

• need not (verb); (not) have to; expressing absence of obligation or necessity - after neg. stem of verb
• need not have; need not exist ➜ 無い

noun:

• large, perforated, turnip-shaped arrowhead cover made of Japanese bigleaf magnolia or paulownia; harmless arrow affixed with such a cover (that whistles when shot and is used to drive off evil spirits) - abbr. of 響目

noun:

• tatami room; tatami mat room; formal Japanese room
• dinner party in a tatami room (esp. when a geisha or maiko attends)

noun:

• classical school or style (e.g. of music, baseball pitching, etc.); orthodox school; authentic style
• purist; follower of the orthodox school

noun:

• goldfish with a shrimp-like tail ［えびお］
• head of a shamisen or lute (bent back like a shrimp's tail)

noun:

• branch of a sacred tree (esp. sakaki) with paper or cotton strips attached (used as an offering) - Shintō term
• sakaki (species of evergreen sacred to Shinto, Cleyera japonica) ➜ 榊

expression:

• expression used to depict a woman who is attractive primarily when it's dark out, she's far away, or her face is partially hidden by a bamboo hat

noun:

• lint (as in a clothes dryer or a pocket); waste thread; fibers, such as might wrap around the gears in small mechanisms and cause them to jam; fluff ➜ 綿ぼこり

noun:

• door frame; window frame; frame sections of the door or window that provide most of its structural integrity

noun:

• talk (esp. by a talk-show host, or by a stage musician to the audience between songs); banter; chat
• talk show - abbreviation ➜ トークショー
• toque

noun:

• temple name (a two-character posthumous name given to Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese royalty)
• name given to a mausoleum (or shrine, etc.)

noun:

• town order (Edo period); order issued by a shogun or daimyo affecting a whole town, and passed on by town officials

noun:

• fox (esp. the red fox, Vulpes vulpes)
• fox (i.e. a sly person)
• soba or udon topped with deep-fried tofu ➜ 狐うどん【きつねうどん】
• light brown; golden brown - abbreviation ➜ きつね色

godan ~む verb:

• to hold fast deep in (one's mouth or other orifice, often used in a sexual context)
• to bring in a man for sex

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to exhaust one's vocabulary (in trying to persuade somebody or explain something, etc.); to run out of words; to be verbose; to cajole; to talk someone's head off

noun:

• three sun (ca. 9.1 cm) ➜ 寸【すん】
• something small, short or thin (roughly the size of three sun)
• stall-keeper; huckster; hawker ➜ 的屋
• prostitute of the lowest rank - archaism

noun:

• symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position, or because of censorship)

prefix noun:

• certain; unnamed; undisclosed; unidentified

expression / noun / ~する noun:

• focusing on only the good points or strong points; incorporating the benefits (while ignoring the drawbacks); picking the best of both (everything); cherry-picking (e.g. information)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to share (someone's) good luck; to follow (someone's) example; to enjoy the same benefits (of someone or something)
• to be named after

noun:

• frame (i.e. of a sliding door)
• crosspiece; bar
• sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut) ➜ 猿
• rung (of a ladder)

noun:

• metallic foil cut into strips or other shapes to form decorative motifs ➜ 切り金
• cutting a thin sheet of metal into shapes and affixing it with lacquer forming natural features (e.g. clouds) ➜ 切り金

noun:

• personal ornament (adorned with gemstones, and usu. worn by the nobility in ancient India or adorning Buddhist statues); necklace; diadem
• moulded decoration hanging from the edges of a Buddhist canopy, gables, etc.