noun:

• flashing lights; revolving lights; lights used on the top of emergency vehicles

expression:

• ahead; further on; beyond (this place)
• before this; prior to this; earlier

noun:

• hard candy; candy suckers molded on a griddle; tortoise-shell candy [literal] ➜ 鼈甲色

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to wait and see; to sit on the fence; to be noncommittal ➜ 日和見

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to go on waiting only to be disappointed; to wait in vain ➜ 待ちぼうけ

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be on the same wavelength; to think alike; to get along

expression / noun:

• being in a helpless situation; (like a) fish on a chopping board [literal] - idiom

expression:

• the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence - proverb ➜ 隣の芝生は青い

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to think (only used to speak of others) - honorific language
• to turn one's attention toward (only used to speak of others); to have feelings for (only used to speak of others)
• to honour the target of one's emotions

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb / transitive:

• to give one's name (as); to introduce oneself (as)
• to claim to be; to call oneself; to wear the title of
• to reveal oneself (as); to admit to being

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to adopt as one's name; to take (a name)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to call out the goods one is selling - archaism

noun:

• chimney; smokestack; funnel (of a ship); stovepipe
• carrying a passenger without turning on the taximeter - slang

noun / ~する noun:

• lifting a person high (in celebration); tossing someone into the air; carrying someone on shoulders

noun:

• administrative scrivener; notary public; paralegal qualified to prepare legal documents on administrative matters, e.g. immigration

noun:

• Gion Festival (in Kyoto during the month of July, with high point on the 17th)

noun:

• teppan-yaki (Japanese cooking prepared on a hot steel plate in the center of the table)

noun / ~する noun:

• cutting in half
• painting or calligraphy done on a half-sized piece of paper - esp. 半折

noun:

• ink line; tool for marking long, straight lines on flat surfaces
• inkpot; ink bottle

interjection:

• not yet!; cry by the referee when one wrestler is on the attack - Sumo term

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• remaining; left-over

noun:

• cramschool (for boys and girls who wish to go on to the next stage of education)

noun:

• radio or television program broadcast in the same time slot on all or most days (programme)

noun:

• zaru soba (soba served on a bamboo draining basket with dipping sauce)

noun:

• kanji used to represent syllables, based on their "kun" readings (prior to the advent of kana) ➜ 音仮名【おんがな】

noun:

• message butting in (to a conversation between two other people on a BBS, etc.) - slang

noun:

• school centred on preparing students to get into university ➜ 進学
• high-level school a person has entered

noun:

• summer purification rites (held at shrines on the last day of the 6th lunar month) ➜ 夏越しの祓