expression / godan ~く verb:

• to spread one's legs
• to agree to have sex (for a woman)

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to put heads together; to gather (for discussion); to go into a huddle ➜ 額を集める【ひたいをあつめる】

noun:

• Shōwa restoration; Showa restoration; call for Imperial restoration by militarists in the 1930s

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to aim for laughs; to play to the crowd

expression / transitive / ~する verb (irregular):

• to need; to call for; to require

particle:

• too; also; in addition; as well; (not) either (in a negative sentence)
• both A and B; A as well as B; neither A nor B (in a negative sentence) - as ＡもＢも
• even; as much as; as many as; as far as; as long as; no less than; no fewer than - used for emphasis or to express absence of doubt regarding a quantity, etc.
• even if; even though; although; in spite of - often as 〜ても, 〜でも, 〜とも, etc.

adverb:

• further; more; again; another; the other - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ もう

noun / ~する noun:

• telephone call; speaking over the telephone

counter:

• counter for telephone calls of a set duration

noun / ~の noun:

• charity; benevolence; philanthropy; (love for) humanity; fraternity; brotherhood; brotherly love; love of fellow man

auxiliary adjective:

• seeming ...; appearing ... - expresses judgement based on evidence, reason or trustworthy hearsay

suffix / adjective:

• -ish; like a ...; typical of ...; appropriate for ...; becoming of ...; worthy of the name ... - after a noun, adverb or adjective stem

noun:

• stake all (on something); play for all or nothing; throwing all into a task - four character idiom

noun:

• sophism; chop logic; far-fetched argument; quibble; cavil; argument for argument's sake

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to yearn for; to pine; to be deeply in love with

godan ~ぶ verb / intransitive verb:

• to blow fiercely; to rage - esp. 吹き荒ぶ
• to play (a flute, etc.) for fun - esp. 吹き遊ぶ - archaism

noun:

• in itself; the thing itself; this itself; for its own sake; per se

noun:

• paper for fans or parasols (cut in a fan shape)
• ground paper; backing paper

proper noun:

• Hachiko; Akita dog that waited every day at Shibuya station for the return of his owner (1923-1935) ➜ 忠犬ハチ公【ちゅうけんハチこう】

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• gasping for breath; at one's last gasp; breathing feebly; on the brink of death; more dead than alive - four character idiom

noun:

• paper doll to which children pray for fine weather (usu. white, and shaped like a Buddhist priest)

noun:

• luxury grocery item (e.g. alcohol, coffee, tea, tobacco); indulgence; something consumed for taste or stimulant effect rather than nourishment

noun:

• kalpa (eon, aeon) ［こう・ごう］ - Buddhism term
• ko (in go); position that allows for eternal capture and recapture of the same stones - usu. コウ - usually written using kana alone

expression:

• twilight; time for disasters (similar to 'the witching hour' but not midnight) ➜ 大禍時

noun:

• plane with a blade at ninety degrees to its base used for maintaining the bases of other wooden planes

noun:

• carriage beautifully decorated with gold, silver, gems, etc., for use by Heian era nobles at festivals and like activities

noun:

• universal life force (the source of animation for all things)
• free spirit (i.e. a mindset unencumbered with worldly concerns)

counter:

• counter for the hito-futa-mi counting system (forming hitotsu, futatsu, mitsu, and misoji, yasoji, etc.)