godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to go through; to pierce; to penetrate ➜ 貫く【つらぬく】
• to stick to (opinion, principles, etc.); to carry out; to persist with; to keep (e.g. faith); to maintain (e.g. independence) ➜ 貫く【つらぬく】

noun:

• arrowhead
• target of a flying arrow; brunt (of an attack)
• the very moment (when); the point (of doing) ➜ 矢先に

noun:

• white night (i.e. at the North or South Pole); short night; night under the midnight sun

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to go to the bottom of an affair; to inquire into the origin ➜ 糺す

noun:

• six coins placed in a casket (said to be to pay the fare to cross the River Sanzu) ➜ 三途の川

adverbial noun / temporal noun / suffix:

• ago; before (some event); previously; (minutes) to (the hour) ➜ 前【ぜん】
• in front (of); before (e.g. the house)
• head (of a line); front (e.g. of a bus); fore part
• in the presence of
• helping; portion ➜ 人前【にんまえ】
• privates; private parts

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to abide (by the rules); to keep to the regulations Antonym: 規則を破る

counter:

• counter for the ichi-ni-san counting system (usu. directly preceding the item being counted); a noun read using its on-yomi

noun:

• totally useless (fruitless) effort; wasting time on an impossible task (like trying to scoop up a reflected moon from the bottom of the sea) - four character idiom

noun:

• Naso (genus of tropical marine surgeonfishes in the family Acanthuridae known as unicorn fishes due to a spike protruding from the forehead)

noun:

• young bird; chick
• hina doll; doll displayed during the Girls' Festival ［ひな］
• green; wet behind the ears; juvenile ［ひよこ・ひよっこ］

noun / ~する noun:

• writing with the brush in one's mouth

noun:

• foreword; preface
• affidavit; written confession (of a commoner in the Edo period)

noun:

• with no one upon whom to depend; utter loneliness; the lonely and the helpless; people who have no kith or kin - four character idiom

expression:

• harsh words make the going rough; consider your words; people may be offended (or not) by the way you speak - proverb

noun:

• milk shark (Rhizoprionodon acutus, species of requiem shark found in the eastern Atlantic and the Indo-Pacific) ➜ 平頭

noun:

• Heptranchias; genus of cow shark in the family Hexanchidae containing the sharpnose seven-gill shark as its only member

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to give an answer; to find an answer to a question; to work out a solution

noun:

• inspector (third highest of the four administrative ranks of the ritsuryo system) - archaism ➜ 判官【はんがん】
• (noh) old man ➜ 翁【おきな】
• white ash (of charcoal)

noun:

• euphonic change of unvoiced to voiced sound (on the first consonant of the non-initial mora of a compound)

noun:

• fake wedding cake with real cake insert used for the ceremonial cutting of the cake - From English "ceremony cake" ➜ ケーキカット

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to push up; to force up; to toss
• to pressure one's superiors
• to burst out (of emotions, etc.); to fill one's heart

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to fall behind; to drop out
• to drop; to fall; to spill; to scatter

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to fall apart; to collapse; to become useless
• to be completely defeated (in battle); to be wiped out
• to fall apart (one's body or health) - archaism

expression / ichidan verb:

• to violate the law; to have a brush with the law; to have a run-in with the law

noun:

• miso with sugar, sake, yuzu juice and skin - esp. ゆずみそ ➜ 練り味噌【ねりみそ】
• hollowed out yuzu stuffed with miso and yuzu juice then baked - esp. ゆみそ