noun / ~の noun:

• red and white; colours for festive or auspicious occasions (colors)

noun:

• two teams; two groups
• Red and White singing contest; annual contest between male and female popular singers on New Year's Eve (sponsored and broadcast by NHK) - abbreviation ➜ 紅白歌合戦【こうはくうたがっせん】

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to include (in a group or scope)
• to instruct; to make one understand
• to include (a nuance); to put in (an implication)
• to put in (someone's) mouth
• to permeate with flavor

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to demarcate; to delimit; to divide (an area); to mark off; to cut off - esp. 区切る
• to punctuate; to put an end to (e.g. a sentence); to insert pauses or breaks (e.g. when reading aloud) - esp. 句切る

expression / ichidan verb:

• to greet; to call out (to); to start talking (to)
• to invite; to get in touch (with); to give a shout (to); to let (somebody) know (one is in the area or has time to meet, etc.)
• to cheer (on); to give vocal support (to)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to follow suit; to imitate or follow someone blindly
• to ride on someone's back; to ride someone's coattails; to take advantage (e.g. of another's popularity)

noun:

• hundred times worship (e.g. visiting a shrine or temple a hundred times for prayer, walking back and forth a hundred times before a shrine offering a prayer each time) ➜ 御百度

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to write (a person) up (in a positive or negative light); to write something up so that it stands out; to write up in an exaggerated fashion; to detail; to list

noun:

• the wise readily adapt themselves to changed circumstances; the wise are quick to acknowledge their mistakes and correct them - four character idiom
• (in colloquial usage, ironically or as an excuse) the wise make no scruple in suddenly changing their demeanor

noun / suffix noun:

• hole - also read めど for this sense ➜ 穴が開く
• deficit; shortage; missing person (in a team, meeting, etc.)
• vacancy; opening
• flaw
• profitable place (or item, etc.) not well known by others
• upset victory (with a large payoff)
• pit (of a theater) - slang ➜ 平土間
• hiding place - archaism
• underbelly (of society, etc.) - archaism

noun:

• free and unbiased; fair and just; ruling or judging what's right is right and what's wrong is wrong; calling spade a spade - four character idiom

noun:

• one-sided wait for the end tile of a three-in-a-row which will finish one's hand (i.e. for a 3 while holding 1-2, or for a 7 while holding 8-9) - Mahjong term

noun:

• one-sided wait for the end tile of a three-in-a-row which will finish one's hand (i.e. for a 3 while holding 1-2, or for a 7 while holding 8-9) - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 辺張待ち【ペンチャンまち】

noun:

• circle (sometimes used for zero) ➜ 丸【まる】
• 'correct' (when marking) ➜ 二重丸【にじゅうまる】
• symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position, or because of censorship) ➜ 〇〇【まるまる】
• period; full stop ➜ 句点
• maru mark; semivoiced sound; p-sound ➜ 半濁点

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to pierce; to penetrate; to soak in; to permeate
• to sting (wound or sensitive area, etc.); to smart; to twinge ［染みる・沁みる］
• to be infected (with vice); to be steeped (with prejudice); to be influenced
• to feel keenly; to make a deep impression

particle:

• indicates direct object of action
• indicates subject of causative expression
• indicates an area traversed
• indicates time (period) over which action takes place
• indicates point of departure or separation of action
• indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc. ➜ が・が・が

noun:

• style of haikai or haiku from the Tenmei era (based on a return to the style of Basho) ➜ 天明・蕉風
• style of comical tanka from the Tenmei era (popularized by Oota Nampo) ➜ 狂歌

noun / ~する noun:

• grinding of the teeth; involuntary nocturnal tooth grinding; bruxism
• grinding one's teeth out of anger or vexation; gnashing one's teeth; gritting one's teeth

conjunction:

• used when referring to oneself in a letter to one's superior - humble language ➜ 下る
• after a time; later; down to (e.g. from the Restoration down to present day)
• used when listing items or people by decreasing worth, rank, etc.

adverb / ~と adverb:

• (dragging a large or heavy item) slowly - onomatopoeia
• (falling) little by little; (slipping) gradually; (drawing back) slowly; with a slither - onomatopoeia
• on and on; while putting off; slovenly; interminably - onomatopoeia
• with a slurp; with a sniffle - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun:

• loose; lax; inconclusive; unresolved - onomatopoeia

noun:

• ceremony on the fifth day of the 10th lunar month in which the emperor would watch prize archery (Heian and Kamakura periods)
• first firing of the bow (after the New Year or the reconstruction of the archery range (in military families))

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to scatter; to cause a shower of
• to disperse; to distribute; to spread
• to resolve (a symptom, condition, etc.); to relieve; to get rid of; to cure
• to distract; to divert - as 気を散らす, etc. ➜ 気を散らす

suffix / godan ~す verb:

• to do ... wildly (i.e. disorderly or frequently); to do ... all over the place - after the -masu stem of a verb

noun:

• head (of a household, etc.); leader; master
• owner; proprietor; proprietress
• subject (of a rumour, etc.); doer (of a deed)
• guardian spirit (e.g. long-resident beast, usu. with mystical powers); long-time resident (or employee, etc.)
• husband

pronoun:

• you - familiar language ➜ おぬし

noun / ~する noun:

• dubbing; adding a new audio (usu. voice) track to an existing video, film, etc. ➜ 吹き替え
• dubbing; re-recording existing video or audio data to a new DVD, tape, etc.

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to fall (of rain, snow, ash, etc.); to come down
• to form (of frost)
• to beam down (of sunlight or moonlight); to pour in
• to visit (of luck, misfortune, etc.); to come; to arrive

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to go under; to pass under; to go through; to pass through
• to dive (into or under the water) ➜ 潜る【もぐる】
• to evade; to get around; to slip past
• to survive; to surmount