noun:

• decorative gauze strap that hangs from the front left side of the kohimo when tying closed one's hanpi ➜ 小紐

noun:

• someone from one's own province (China) ➜ 外省人
• someone whose ancestors had lived in Taiwan before the Kuomintang related immigration wave ➜ 外省人

noun:

• carrying (on one's shoulder); bearing; shouldering; taking responsibility for
• bucket carried on either end of a pole - abbreviation ➜ 担い桶

noun:

• wait to turn either of two pairs into a pung to finish one's hand - Mahjong term

expression / adjective:

• unable to clear away one's ill feeling; not able to do anything (about...)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to decide; to choose; to determine; to make up one's mind; to resolve; to set one's heart on; to settle; to arrange; to set; to appoint; to fix
• to clinch (a victory); to decide (the outcome of a match)
• to persist in doing; to go through with
• to always do; to have made a habit of - as 決めている
• to take for granted; to assume
• to dress up; to dress to kill; to dress to the nines
• to carry out successfully (a move in sports, a pose in dance, etc.); to succeed in doing
• to immobilize with a double-arm lock (in sumo, judo, etc.) - Martial Arts, Sumo term
• to eat or drink something; to take illegal drugs

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to overcome (opposition); to push past; to force one's way
• to press and cut

noun:

• lion dance; traditional dance performed by one or more dancers wearing a guardian lion costume

noun:

• bringing one's child to the local park to play for the first time

expression:

• after the decimal point; below the decimal

expression / ~の noun:

• of no account; beneath one's notice

noun / adjectival noun / adverb:

• one's heart is filled with even deeper emotion; feeling the emotion all the more deeply - four character idiom

expression:

• dignified without being overbearing; being dignified, and moreover warm, as such one is gentle ➜ 威有って猛からず【いあってたけからず】

noun:

• savannah monkey (the vervet monkey, green monkey and grivet monkey taken collectively as one species, Cercopithecus aethiops)

noun:

• changing one's attitude or conduct and making a new start; turning over a new leaf

noun:

• Ama-no-Murakumo no Tsurugi (heavenly gathering of clouds sword; one of the three Imperial regalia) ➜ 三種の神器

noun:

• Rhincodon (genus of one species of whale shark, Rhincodon typus, in the family Rhincodontidae)

expression / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• being painfully-true (e.g. reprimand); making one's ears burn; striking home (e.g. remark) ➜ 耳が痛い

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to use one's influence; to pull strings; to take measures; to make the necessary preparations

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be relieved of a worry; to get a load off one's chest

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be drawn to; to feel the call of ...; to have one's heart-strings pulled

noun:

• taking over (e.g. store or family's headship)
• subrogation; substitution of one person for another (usu. a creditor)

adjectival noun / noun:

• inhuman; immoral; unreasonable; outrageous; wicked - archaism ➜ 無道

noun:

• (the crime of) barbarity (such as killing three people in one family, or dismembering a corpse) ➜ 八虐

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