noun:

• Buddhist priest; bonze
• close-cropped hair; crew cut; person with a shorn head
• boy; sonny; lad - familiar language - derogatory term
• not catching anything (in fishing) ➜ お凸【おでこ】

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• in passing another (esp. colliding with oncoming traffic, bumping into a person); the moment two persons or objects meet

noun:

• Chinese "Extended Net" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - archaism - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿・朱雀【すざく】

suffix / counter:

• counter for objects with stretched strings (i.e. bows, kotos), curtains, papers, etc.

noun / ~する noun:

• squatting (usu. with elbows on knees and often while smoking, typically considered a low-class posture)

noun:

• Okinawan dish of grated carrot stir-fried with egg and sometimes meat or fish - Ryūkyū dialect - Food term

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to mince; to cut fine; to chop up; to hash; to shred
• to carve; to engrave; to chisel; to notch
• to tick away (time); to beat out (e.g. rhythm); to record the passing moments
• to etch (into one's mind); to remember distinctly - as 心に刻む, etc. ➜ 心に刻む
• to have tattooed - archaism
• to torment - archaism

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to well (up); to gush forth (of water); to spring out; to surge
• to appear (esp. suddenly) (sweat, tears, etc.)
• to feel emotions form (joy, bravery, etc.)
• to hatch (esp. of parasitic insects, etc.)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to eat up and spoil (e.g. crops); to eat away; to devour; to wolf down
• to eat a bit of everything
• to encroach upon; to take over; to steal (e.g. support)

noun:

• sliding feet; shuffling (one's feet)
• moving legs forward with feet never leaving the ground (exercise) - Sumo term

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to decorate with many bright colours (colors); to create a beautiful variegated pattern ［彩なす・綾なす］
• to manipulate skillfully

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to wheeze; to breathe with difficulty; to gasp

expression:

• empty vessels make the most noise; the silent firefly burns with more passion than the crying cicada [literal] - proverb

adverb / ~と adverb:

• clearly; plainly; distinctly - onomatopoeia

~する noun:

• to be clear; to be definite; to be certain; to be exact; to become clear; to clear up - often as はっきりした

noun:

• mid-January festival in northern Japan, with snow huts in which children play house
• snow hut

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to conform to; to be in accordance with; to follow (rule, tradition, example, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• viewing and treating as one; regarding as the same; equating one thing with another; identification

expression / ichidan verb:

• to find fault with; to rain on one's parade; to nitpick; to quibble

noun:

• near-field earthquake; local earthquake, esp. with a shallow focus directly under a populated area

noun:

• Gleichenia japonica (species of fern with white-backed leaves)
• white underside; white bottom; white inner - orig. meaning

noun / ~する noun:

• alliance (esp. originally of individual member states of the Six Kingdoms with the Qin dynasty) ➜ 合従・秦・六国

expression:

• super-low (description of a small truck with a low tray)

noun:

• even pitch; accentless pitch; Japanese pitch accent pattern with no drop from high to low pitch

adjectival noun / ~の noun / suffix:

• being fond of; having a liking for
• to the liking of; favored by; popular with

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to make take part in some activity; to take along with you (w. negative associations)

noun:

• girl (usu. attractive) with glasses; glasses-wearing girl - manga slang