noun:

• tie-dyeing - archaism - obscure term
• heraldic design of a square with a hole in the center - obscure term

noun:

• winning hand formed by drawing a replacement tile after declaring a kong - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 嶺上牌

noun / ~する noun:

• turning (a comic, novel, etc.) into a serialized TV-show; dramatization

noun / ~する noun:

• bogging down; dragging on; turning into a quagmire; becoming mired in a mess

noun:

• returning of a package to depot after a failed delivery attempt

noun:

• death with dignity; natural death (as opposed to extending one's life unnaturally with life support)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be valuable as scrap; to be able to do other work; to have marketable skills

noun:

• child born to one's legal wife (as opposed to one's concubine, etc.) - archaism

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to make a decision; to draw a conclusion
• to give a judgement; to hand down a verdict; to pass a sentence; to give an order
• to let go down; to lower
• to do oneself; to do by oneself ➜ 手を下す
• to beat; to defeat
• to have loose bowels; to have diarrhea
• to pass (in stool); to discharge from the body

auxiliary verb / godan ~す verb:

• to do in one go; to do to the end without stopping

noun:

• shrine ritual held with the first two months of the year to forecast (or pray for) a successful harvest
• seasonal planting of rice on a field affiliated with a shrine

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to pierce; to stab; to prick; to stick; to thrust
• to sting; to bite ➜ 螫す
• to sew; to stitch; to embroider
• to pole (a boat) ➜ 差す
• to catch (with a limed pole)
• to put (a runner) out; to pick off - Baseball term

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to pin down; to hold down; to press down - also written as 圧さえる
• to cover (esp. a part of one's body with one's hand); to clutch (a body part in pain); to press (a body part)
• to get a hold of; to obtain; to seize; to catch; to arrest
• to grasp (a point); to comprehend
• to quell; to subdue; to suppress; to repress; to hold back; to check; to curb; to contain ➜ 抑える【おさえる】

expression:

• sacrifice something small in order to save something great; lose a leg to save one's life; let a large bug live and kill a small one [literal] - proverb

noun:

• loading a horse with passengers or baggage
• driving a horse into a pen
• Hexacentrus japonicus (species of katydid); Hexacentrus unicolor (species of katydid) - abbreviation ➜ 馬追虫

noun:

• taking delight in elegant pursuits; being absorbed in such elegant cultural pursuits as poetry, painting and calligraphy - four character idiom

noun:

• dyeing of degummed silk; dyeing of raw silk at the same time as degumming

expression / ichidan verb:

• to lend a hand; to give a hand; to help; to extend a helping hand

expression / ichidan verb:

• to get a rakeoff; to get a kickback; to take a kickback

~の noun:

• guaranteed (to be genuine, valuable, etc.); certified (as genuine, valuable, etc.) ➜ 極め付きの品

expression:

• room to breathe (usually in the negative as "no room to breathe") ➜ 立錐の余地もない

noun:

• young adult still living at home; dependent ➜ 部屋住み
• female servant working for a lady-in-waiting working in the inner part of a lord's house (Edo period) ➜ 部屋方
• freeloader living in a samurai's house
• young kabuki actor in service of a master (Edo period)

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to let things end up as they will; to let nature take its course
• to make do with what one has

expression / adverb:

• by the end of this month; before the month is out; in the course of this month

noun:

• set of three books of Buddhist stories, written in the late 8th and early 9th century, usually referred to as the Nihon Ryouiki

noun:

• set of three books of Buddhist stories, written in the late 8th and early 9th century, usually referred to as the Nihon Ryouiki