noun:

• reason of being; raison d'être; meaning of one's existence

expression:

• what is it (that); the meaning of something; what something is about

noun:

• distance from the seam in the back of a kimono to the end of the sleeve

noun:

• probe into the truth (of the matter); dig into the real facts of the case; get at the root of a matter - four character idiom

noun:

• one meaning
• primary importance; primary significance; primary consideration
• a reason; a truth

expression:

• better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion - proverb

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to scatter; to cause a shower of
• to disperse; to distribute; to spread
• to resolve (a symptom, condition, etc.); to relieve; to get rid of; to cure
• to distract; to divert - as 気を散らす, etc. ➜ 気を散らす

suffix / godan ~す verb:

• to do ... wildly (i.e. disorderly or frequently); to do ... all over the place - after the -masu stem of a verb

noun:

• veranda; porch; balcony; open corridor ➜ 縁【えん】
• bone at the base of a fin; meat at the base of a fin (esp. of a flatfish) ［縁側］ ➜ 担鰭骨

noun:

• six consciousnesses (i.e. functions of the six sense organs: seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, and reasoning) - Buddhism term

expression / noun:

• backbiting of a coward; grumblings of a loser; the far-off bark of a retreating dog [literal] - idiom

noun:

• the tip of a spear; the edge at the very tip of a sword

noun:

• lamp or electric light at the eaves of a house; door light

noun:

• yunwei (secondary vowel or consonant following the primary vowel of a Chinese character)

expression:

• with a gentle face and a nice word - four character idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to make a pun on a word

noun:

• Shinto ritual in which a shaman or priest soaks bamboo grass in boiling water and sprinkles the water on worshippers (originally a form of divination, later a purification ceremony, now primarily used to pray for good health) ➜ 巫女【みこ】

noun:

• meaning of phrase

noun:

• euphoria experienced by college students or workplace recruits at the beginning of school or work ➜ 五月病・六月病

noun:

• five punishments (of ancient China: tattooing, cutting off the nose, cutting off a leg, castration or confinement, death) - archaism
• five punishments (of the ritsuryo system: light caning, severe caning, imprisonment, exile, death) ➜ 律令制

noun:

• five punishments (of the ritsuryo system: light caning, severe caning, imprisonment, exile, death) - archaism ➜ 律令制
• five punishments (of ancient China: tattooing, cutting off the nose, cutting off a leg, castration or confinement, death) ➜ 五刑

pronoun / pre-noun adjectival:

• this (indicating an item near the speaker, the action of the speaker, or the current topic) ➜ 此れ・此の

noun:

• the flavor of Zen; the flavour of Zen; air or style of disinterestedness

noun:

• pallesthesia; sense of vibration; vibratory sense; vibratory sensation; vibration perception; vibratory perception - Biology term

noun:

• word-length; word size

noun:

• declinable word; inflectable word - Linguistics term