noun / adjectival noun:

• the point of an argument being unclear; the tenor of an argument being poorly reasoned - four character idiom

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to give an answer; to find an answer to a question; to work out a solution

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to start an act (of a play); to have curtains open; to have an (event, period of history, etc.) start ➜ 幕を閉じる

noun:

• paper folded and tucked inside the front of one's kimono (esp. for use at the tea ceremony)
• paper used for writing tanka

noun:

• brown meat (crab); miso-like paste found inside a crab's (and arthropods in general) intestinal area
• miso mixed with crab innards or scraps

noun:

• payment on an installment system; payment on an instalment system; easy payment plan

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to air; to dry; to desiccate
• to drain (off)
• to drink up
• to deprive of a role, job, etc. - usu. in the passive

noun:

• humble language in which the listener (or a third party) is the indirect object of an action (or the recipient of an object, etc.) ➜ 謙譲語ＩＩ

noun / ~の noun:

• head of an organizational section; head of an organisational section

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to have an audience (with); to have an interview (with) ➜ 見える【まみえる】

noun:

• bracing oneself up to action, being inspired by something; getting down to work, putting heart and soul into it; tackling (a job) with gusto - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• pasturing; letting (an animal) run loose
• letting (someone) do as they please; leaving (something) to take its own course; letting (an issue) go unchecked; leaving uncontrolled; leaving at large (e.g. a criminal)

noun:

• water ball; large inflatable sphere that allows a person inside it to walk across the surface of a body of water

noun:

• leader; boss
• upper part of a flag
• (Okinawa) bamboo poles with an attached vertical flag and an elaborate display at the top that are used during the annual fertility and thanks-giving festivals

noun:

• this duty; this task; this job

pronoun:

• I (as the person in charge of this task)

noun / ~する noun:

• residence; stay; (job) posting; being stationed (overseas, etc.)
• residential police box; residential police box officer - abbreviation ➜ 駐在所【ちゅうざいしょ】

expression / ichidan verb:

• to leave one's post; to walk out on one's job

noun:

• possessing full mastery of an art (e.g. Judo); initiation into the secrets (e.g. of an art); full mastership - four character idiom

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hold an additional item in one's hand
• to use an additional hand to hold

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to draw; to paint; to sketch ➜ 書く
• to depict; to describe ［えがく］
• to picture in one's mind; to imagine
• to form a certain shape (e.g. path of an action, appearance of an object, etc.)

noun:

• being frustrated because something is not quite as hoped (just as one cannot scratch an itch from outside a shoe); having an itch that one cannot scratch - four character idiom

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to give an order; to place an order; to have made to order

noun:

• work-related injury; work-related illness; work-related death; on-the-job accident - abbreviation ➜ 労働災害
• workers' compensation insurance - abbreviation ➜ 労災保険

noun / ~する noun:

• quitting one's job as a government official to return to live quietly in one's own native region

noun / ~する noun:

• looking for a change of occupation; looking for a new job