noun / ~する noun:

• entering a higher-level school, esp. going on to university

noun / ~する noun:

• focusing on; paying attention to
• observation; perception; taking notice of

noun:

• pole on which to hang laundry for drying; clothesline

noun:

• holiday ➜ 物日
• day on which prostitutes had to receive clients ➜ 物日

noun:

• bonus paid to employees on occasion of a full house

noun:

• safe day (one on which conception is unlikely to occur)

noun:

• dangerous day (one on which conception is likely to occur) ➜ 安全日

noun:

• manzai based on comic dialogue (as opposed to a skit) ➜ 漫才

expression:

• There's no point in staying (here) any longer; There's no point in prolonging a (the) visit; There's no point in extending one's stay - four character idiom

pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about something/someone close to the speaker (including the speaker), or about ideas expressed by the speaker); like this - Hiroshima dialect ➜ こんな

noun:

• field survey; field work (research); on-the-spot investigation

noun:

• counting on the abacus
• cost-benefit calculation; profit calculation

noun:

• person on top of the income scale; top earner ➜ 低所得者

pre-noun adjectival:

• this (something or someone close to the speaker (including the speaker), or ideas expressed by the speaker) ➜ 何の【どの】・此れ・其の・彼の

noun:

• muscle; tendon; sinew
• vein; artery
• fiber; fibre; string
• line; stripe; streak
• reason; logic ➜ 筋が通る
• plot; storyline
• lineage; descent
• school (e.g. of scholarship or arts)
• aptitude; talent
• source (of information, etc.); circle; channel
• well-informed person (in a transaction)
• logical move (in go, shogi, etc.)
• ninth vertical line - Shōgi term
• seam on a helmet
• gristly fish paste (made of muscle, tendons, skin, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ 筋蒲鉾
• social position; status - archaism

suffix noun / noun / ~の noun:

• on (a river, road, etc.); along

suffix / counter:

• counter for long thin things; counter for roads or blocks when giving directions
• (Edo period) counter for hundreds of mon (obsolete unit of currency) - archaism

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to work; to labor; to labour
• to function; to operate; to be effective; to work (i.e. ... works); to come into play
• to commit (e.g. a crime); to perpetrate; to do; to act; to practise; to practice
• to be conjugated - Linguistics term

noun / ~の noun:

• (on the) aisle; aisle seat

adverbial noun / ~の noun:

• every hour on the hour - usu. as 毎正時に

expression:

• spoiling someone's work; useless effort; laboring in vain; labouring in vain; if a peasant sows seeds, the crows will dig them up [literal]

noun / ~する noun:

• open-air tea ceremony
• aristocrat taking a break during a trip in a palanquin
• something standing in the open

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to only make work for oneself; to stir up a hornet's nest; to put one's foot in one's mouth - idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to draw the line (between two situations); to make a clear distinction ➜ けじめ
• to take clear responsibility for (mistakes, etc.)

noun:

• broiled eel on rice with green tea poured on top ➜ 茶漬

noun:

• custom of having toddlers step on a sticky rice cake on their first birthday

noun:

• crawling on all fours; getting on one's hands and knees; falling flat ➜ 四つん這い【よつんばい】