ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to become known; to come to light; to be discovered ➜ お里が知れる【おさとがしれる】
• to be known; to be understood - often in the negative ➜ 気が知れない【きがしれない】・得体の知れない【えたいのしれない】
• to obviously not amount to much; to seem trivial ➜ 高が知れている【たかがしれている】
• to be evident; to be obvious; to go without saying - in the form しれたこと
• to be very intense (worry, hope, etc.); to be extremely severe - in forms like どれほど…かしれない

noun:

• shade; shadow
• other side; back; background

noun:

• bent back
• indecisive attitude; timidity; lack of nerve

noun:

• shell; carapace
• person's back
• years of experience

noun / ~の noun:

• back (esp. of a building, etc.); rear; behind

noun:

• strained back; slipped disk; lumbosacral strain

noun:

• switch-back (reversal of redundancy switching following repair)

noun:

• three-quarter back (rugby)

noun:

• back cover (e.g. camera, watch, etc.)

noun:

• buttocks; lower back; waist; hips - honorific language ➜ 腰
• kimono underskirt - female language ➜ 腰巻

adverb / ~と adverb:

• without holding anything back; mercilessly; relentlessly; energetically; vigorously - onomatopoeia

noun:

• pushback (e.g. aircraft); push-back
• resistance; objection

noun:

• stamina; endurance; physical strength; resilience; resistance to disease
• strength of an organization (e.g. profitability, productivity, economic clout, stability, growth potential)

noun:

• shot; charge; explosion
• blow; punch
• home run - Baseball term

noun / adverbial noun:

• try; attempt

noun:

• win on the first go-around after calling riichi - Mahjong term

noun:

• bonus footage (e.g. behind-the-scenes interviews), such as that included on DVDs of movies, television programs, etc.

noun:

• Chinese bronze inscriptions; type of lettering used on metal objects, especially in China during the Yin and Zhou dynasties

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to be complete; to be all present; to make a full set; to be satisfied (of conditions)
• to be equal; to be uniform; to be even; to match; to agree
• to gather; to assemble; to be collected

noun:

• cabinetwork; joinery - usu. 指(し)物
• hair ornament; hairpin - often 挿(し)物
• colours; banner; small banner worn by soldiers during battle (for identification) from the Sengoku period to the end of the Edo period - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• community door-to-door campaign; search operation; cleaning campaign carried out thoroughly over an area

~する noun:

• swat - to hit with a sharp slapping blow usually with an instrument (as a bat or flyswatter)

noun / ~の noun:

• ankle; malleolus; ankle bone; bony prominence on each side of the ankle - Anatomy term

noun:

• striking on the side; slanting or driving (rain); side sweep; side blow

noun:

• flashing lights; revolving lights; lights used on the top of emergency vehicles

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to (take out and) show; to demonstrate; to tell; to exemplify; to make apparent
• to point out (finger, clock hand, needle, etc.)
• to indicate; to show; to represent; to signify; to display

auxiliary verb:

• indicates recollection or realization (i.e. of hearsay or the past); can form a poetic past tense
• indicates continuation from the past to the present
• end; conclusion - also written with the ateji 鳧