ichidan verb / transitive:

• to look back on (the past); to reflect on; to reminisce about ➜ 省みる【かえりみる】
• to look behind (at); to turn round (and look); to look over one's shoulder
• to consider; to concern oneself about; to take notice of; to pay attention to; to take into consideration - usu. in the negative

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to feel nervous; to feel afraid; to feel self-conscious; to lose one's nerve; to get cold feet; to get the jitters
• to be startled; to be surprised; to be shocked; to feel frightened; to be spooked - colloquialism
• to be shy; to be bashful - archaism

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to store; to save up; to stock up on; to lay in stock; to set aside
• to accumulate (e.g. knowledge); to build up (e.g. experience); to develop (e.g. one's skills)
• to grow (a beard, moustache, etc.); to wear

expression:

• metaphor in which the road to paradise is likened to a white road between two rivers, one of water (wrath) and one of fire (greed) - Buddhism term

noun:

• Smith's red-backed vole (Eothenomys smithii); Smith's vole

noun:

• transverse temporal gyri; ridges on the cerebral cortex; Heschl's gyri; Heschl's convolutions ➜ 脳回

expression / godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to fall into someone's hands; to place oneself in someone's power

noun:

• eleven; 11 ［じゅういち］
• jack (playing card)
• Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus fugax); Horsfield's hawk cuckoo - ateji derived from its call - usually written using kana alone

noun / ~の noun:

• mercy; compassion; clemency; pity; charity; benevolence

noun:

• Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus fugax); Horsfield's hawk cuckoo - abbreviation ➜ 慈悲心鳥

noun:

• traveller's cheque; traveler's check

expression:

• it's none of your business; it's not your concern

noun:

• pilgrim's song; pilgrim's hymn; song in praise of the Buddha - Buddhism term

expression:

• like water off a duck's back; water on a frog's face [literal]

noun:

• daimyo's spare residence or emergency refuge
• residence of a daimyo's successor

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to loosen; to slacken Antonym: 締める
• to relax (attention, efforts, etc.); to let down (one's guard); to relieve (tension)
• to relax (a rule); to ease (e.g. restrictions); to loosen (control)
• to reduce (speed); to slow down; to ease up
• to make more gradual (of a slope)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to let go of; to release; to drop
• to part with (e.g. a possession); to relinquish; to spare; to sell
• to send away (e.g. one's child); to let go; to part with
• to temporarily stop working

noun:

• cooking over a second fire to prevent contamination from one's everyday fire for performing Shinto rites; cooking over a second fire to prevent contamination from mourning people, menstruating women, etc.

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to finger; to touch; to play with; to fiddle with; to toy with
• to make changes to; to tinker with; to tamper with ［いじる］
• to dabble in; to do as a hobby; to play around with ［いじる］
• to grope; to feel around (in one's pocket, bag, etc.) ［まさぐる］

noun:

• physician's license (licence); doctor's license; medical license ➜ 医師免許

noun:

• Spencer's monitor (Varanus spenceri, species of carnivorous monitor lizard native to northern Australia); Spencer's goanna

expression:

• one has no other choice but to do what one has to do ➜ っきゃ

noun:

• pile; heap; layers (e.g. of clothing); set (e.g. of boxes); course (e.g. of stones) - esp. 重ね

counter:

• counter for things that are stacked, piled up (or layered, etc.) - esp. 重ね; used after a word from the "hito-futa-mi" counting system

noun:

• layers of clothing worn under one's overcoat - esp. 襲
• combination of colors created by layering of garments (colours) - esp. 襲 - abbreviation ➜ かさねの色目【かさねのいろめ】

noun:

• cat's-eye (semiprecious stone) ➜ 猫目石
• cat's-eye (light-reflecting road stud)

noun:

• United Nations Children's Fund (formerly Children's Emergency Fund); UNICEF

noun:

• physician's license (licence); doctor's license; medical license; license to practice medicine