noun:

• stain; spot; smudge; blot; smear; blotch
• spot (on one's skin, e.g. chloasma, liver spot); blemish; discoloration; freckle - esp. シミ ➜ 肝斑

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to fill (one's heart); to experience a welling up of feelings or sensations
• to feel nauseated

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to act arrogantly; to be puffed up with success; to behave like one is better than others

godan ~す verb:

• to raise; to record; to bring up (a matter); to serve (food); to send some one out - Kyōto dialect

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to reverberate; to resound; to echo
• to have one's fame spread; to be renowned

expression / ichidan verb:

• to bud; to sprout; to germinate
• to have luck on one's side; to get lucky ➜ 目が出る

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to give vent to (one's feeling); to hint (at something); to intimate; to suggest

noun:

• aizuchi; back-channeling; interjections indicating that one is paying attention
• two smiths hammering at an object in turn ➜ 向こう鎚

noun:

• one group comprising the lowest rank of Japan's Edo-period caste system (people whose work usually involved handling human bodies or animal carcasses) - vulgar ➜ 被差別部落民

noun:

• laying out (e.g. ground plan, garden); layout
• taking space (Go); obtaining land; gaining territory
• training done in one's own stable - Sumo term
• (police) legwork - abbreviation ➜ 地取り捜査

expression:

• avoiding unnecessary talk can prevent disaster falling on one; there is safety in silence; the pheasant would not be shot but for its cries [literal] - proverb

expression:

• something that cannot be done no matter how hard one tries (and is slightly frustrating because of this); eye drops from the second floor [literal] - idiom

noun / suffix noun:

• earth; ground; land; soil
• place
• territory
• bottom (of a package, book, etc.) ➜ 天地無用
• earth (one of the five elements) ➜ 五大・土【ど】

noun:

• highway (esp. one existing from the Edo period); main road
• highway (e.g. to success); path (to becoming ...) ➜ 出世街道【しゅっせかいどう】

noun:

• slipping one's hand beneath the opponent's arm and latching on to the underside of his belt - Sumo term

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to draw through one's hand; to stroke (e.g. a beard) ［しごく］
• to work someone hard ［しごく］

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to masturbate - usu. シゴく

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to chew thoroughly; to bite (e.g. one's lip)
• to reflect upon; to digest

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to lie on one's back with legs outstretched; to recline
• to get cocky; to be arrogant

noun:

• the hundredth year
• out of luck; (at the) end of one's rope
• rare chance; unusually good fortune

noun:

• (monetary) present to a person in distress; gift of money in token of one's sympathy; solatium

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to enter into a person's feelings; to guess what somebody feels (using one's intuition)

noun:

• technique of throwing one's opponent by pushing his chest while holding his thigh; thigh-grabbing push down - Sumo term

adverb:

• at last; at length ➜ やっと
• barely; just; by the skin of one's teeth

interjection:

• yo-ho!; heave-ho! ［やっとこさ・やっとこせ］ ➜ やっとこまかせ

noun:

• trick of leaning back and carrying one's opponent round and out of the ring - Sumo term
• last-minute reversal

noun:

• Muraji (hereditary title; orig. one of the two highest such titles, later demoted to seventh highest of eight) - archaism