expression / intransitive verb / godan ~る verb:

• to be on one's mind; to worry one; to care about; to be bothered by; to feel uneasy; to be anxious; to be curious about
• to feel like; to feel inclined to
• to fancy; to like; to catch one's eye

expression / ichidan verb:

• to resolve to do; to make up one's mind to do; to set one's heart on; to have one's heart set on

expression / ichidan verb:

• to close one's eyes partly; to squint
• to smile with one's whole face; to look fondly at

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to make narrower; to shut (an umbrella); to shrug (one's shoulders); to purse (one's lips)

noun:

• resting one's chin in one's hands ➜ 頬杖をつく
• brace (in construction); angle brace ［ほおづえ］ ➜ 方杖

noun:

• décolleté; décolletage; the part of a woman's chest and back exposed by a low neckline - From French
• robe décolletée; low-cut dress - abbreviation - From French ➜ ローブデコルテ

noun / ~の noun:

• low-cut (neckline style); décolleté - From French

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to manipulate figures to one's advantage; to count wrongly on purpose; to inflate or deflate one's age - idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to give one's everything; to make one's best effort; to be enthused; to put your back into it - idiom

adverb:

• with all one's strength; with all one's heart; to the utmost ➜ 思い切り【おもいきり】

noun:

• resolution; decisiveness ➜ 思い切り【おもいきり】

noun / ~する noun:

• venting one's anger (on someone or something); taking out one's anger on

adverb:

• with all one's strength; with all one's heart; to the utmost

noun:

• resolution; decisiveness

expression / ichidan verb:

• to have luck turn one's way; to have one's fortune change for the better

expression / ichidan verb:

• to flee from one's enemy; to turn tail
• to expose one's weakness to an adversary

expression:

• some are wise and some are otherwise; one thousand with their eyes open; one thousand blind [literal] - proverb - sensitive

expression:

• some are wise and some are otherwise; one thousand blind; one thousand with their eyes open [literal] - proverb - sensitive ➜ 目明き千人盲千人

pronoun:

• which way; which direction; where - どちら is polite ➜ 此方【こちら】・其方・彼方【あちら】
• which one (esp. of two alternatives)
• who ➜ どちら様

noun:

• reason; significance; cause
• piece of information that one has heard; I hear that ...; it is said that ... ［由］

noun:

• first words said (e.g. when meeting someone); first thing out of one's mouth
• first speech; inaugural address

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to let the tension out of one's shoulders; to relax; to not take oneself too seriously

expression / noun:

• fruits of one's wife's labour (in assisting her husband's career, e.g. by running the household)

noun:

• omen; sign of luck
• origin; history; causation
• dependent arising; doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing - orig. meaning - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 因縁生起

noun:

• central figure; pillar (e.g. of the nation); mainstay; chief support; leader
• chief; boss; leader; head
• master carpenter
• beams and ridge supports of a roof - orig. meaning

noun:

• inner sanctuary; inner shrine; sanctum sanctorum; holy of holies; place behind main hall of a temple enshrining temple founder, miraculous Buddhas, hidden statues, etc. - Buddhism term

expression:

• to be unable to accomplish something because one has chosen the wrong method; to ask for the impossible; to look for fish by climbing a tree [literal] - from Mencius - proverb

noun:

• losing initiative; being forestalled ➜ 先手【せんて】
• second move (in go or shogi); moving second; person with the second move
• rear guard ➜ 後詰め