expression / adverb:

• in all parts of the world; in all countries; anywhere in the world; both in the Occident and the Orient

ichidan verb:

• to give way to the light of the morning (i.e. the darkness gives way)

noun:

• water and moon
• the moon reflected on the water
• pit of the stomach; solar plexus ➜ 水落

noun:

• kakekotoba; pivot word; play on words (esp. in poetry); pun

noun:

• closing (a market or trading session)
• closing price

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to send or direct a person to

noun / ~する noun:

• collusion before a bid or tender; bid-rigging ➜ 談合入札

noun:

• email from a cell phone or mobile phone ➜ 電郵

noun:

• decreasing birthrate and aging population; aging population combined with the diminishing number of children; declining birthrate and a growing proportion of elderly people; dwindling birthrate and an aging population; low birthrate and longevity ➜ 少子化・高齢化

expression:

• a wise person always follows the right course; a wise man never wavers - four character idiom

noun:

• refreshing breeze and the bright moon; a beautiful nocturnal scene with a full moon - four character idiom

noun:

• rope weapon with a sickle on one end and a ring on the other

noun:

• do-or-die resistance; resistance to the bitter end

noun:

• regular adoption (official adoption with the consent of both parties and without dissolving the relationship with the biological parents)

noun:

• lady-killer (i.e. a man who is popular with women); knocking a woman dead (with sex appeal)
• murderer of women
• murder of women

expression:

• evading blame for a transgression by pinning it on a subordinate and abandoning them; a skink lizard's shedding of its tail [literal] - idiom

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to become muddy; to become cloudy; to get impure (of a liquid, gas, etc.)
• to become dull (of a sound, color, etc.); to become hoarse
• to become impure (of a heart, society, etc.); to be corrupted; to be polluted
• to become voiced; to add voiced consonant marks ➜ 濁り【にごり】

noun:

• half portion of noodles or fried rice; half ball (of noodles)

expression:

• the former and the latter; A and B

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to finish off; to ensure (something) is dead; to deliver the coup de grace
• to put an end to; to deliver the final blow
• to be the best for A - as ＡはＢに止めを刺す

noun:

• translational equivalent; equivalent word in translation

noun:

• search term; search word - IT term

noun / ~する noun:

• rendezvous; meeting; assignation

noun:

• area where guests gather before the start of a tea ceremony
• waiting room - abbreviation ➜ 待合室【まちあいしつ】
• meeting place for assignations, drinking, etc. - archaism - abbreviation ➜ 待合茶屋【まちあいぢゃや】

noun / ~する noun:

• landing on an aircraft carrier; deck-landing
• reaching a warship; arrival of a warship (at a port)

noun:

• Qi (kingdom in China during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Period of the Warring States); Ch'i