noun:

• tyre chains; anti-skid device
• backup measure; taking entrance examination to a university in case one fails at other universities

noun:

• soft, downy hair (i.e. such as on one's cheek); peach fuzz; fluff; pappus
• lanugo

~の noun:

• lanuginous; pappose; pappous

noun:

• sitting position similar to seiza (but with both legs splayed out slightly and one's backside resting directly on the ground) ➜ 正座【せいざ】

noun / suffix noun:

• room
• wife (of someone of high rank) - obscure term
• scabbard - obscure term
• Chinese "Encampment" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿・玄武【げんぶ】

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to have a secret affair; to meet secretly (for two persons); to flirt with one another ➜ 密会・乳繰り合う

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hold a person back; to restrain; to catch in one's arms

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be onto a good thing; to make money without working; to line one's pockets - idiom

expression:

• there in body, but not in spirit; distracted; in one ear and out the other

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be furious; to seethe with anger; to have one's blood boiling

expression / ichidan verb:

• to take a solid stance
• to put one's back in it; to exert oneself ➜ 本腰を入れる

expression / ichidan verb:

• to get (e.g. the gist of something); to understand
• to turn out as one thought ➜ 我が意を得たり

noun:

• sweeping the soot from one's house (to welcome the kami of the New Year) ➜ 神【かみ】・すす払い

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to conceal one's true nature or feelings; to feign friendliness; to play the hypocrite - idiom ➜ 猫をかぶる【ねこをかぶる】

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to make a formal salutation (between gamblers); to formally greet; to pay one's respects

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to feign composure; to act like one has (time, money, strength, etc.) to spare - colloquialism

expression / noun:

• dream within a dream; (beyond) one's wildest dreams; entirely unrealizable dream; pie in the sky

noun:

• passing a bone fragment from one pair of chopsticks to another while placing the remains of the deceased in a funerary urn; two people picking up the same bone fragment with chopsticks at the same time
• passing food from one pair of chopsticks to another (a breach of etiquette); two people picking up the same piece of food with chopsticks at the same time ➜ 拾い箸

adjectival noun:

• free (of restraint, controls, etc.)
• free (of cost)
• freelance - abbreviation ➜ フリーランス
• one-size ➜ フリーサイズ

noun:

• qian (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: heaven, northwest)

noun:

• xun (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: wind, southeast)

noun / ~する noun:

• acting arbitrarily on one's own authority; acting arbitrarily without consultation - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• being off to one side; being away off in the country

noun:

• dui (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: swamp, west)

adverb / noun:

• all that one has; all that there is; the whole

noun:

• goods in stock or on hand or in one's possession