noun:

• dial (on timepiece, meter, etc.)
• letter board (e.g. on typewriter, writing aide for the disabled, etc.); character board

noun:

• person who is made to do things or go get things for someone else; person who runs errands; gofer - abbreviation - colloquialism ➜ 使いっ走り

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be fit for; to be equal to; to function properly

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to carry over; to carry forward; to keep (for later); to defer ➜ 持ち越し

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to contract; to undertake
• to take over; to take responsibility for

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to call; to summon; to send for; to call together

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to use properly; to use (different things) for different purposes

auxiliary:

• to give; to let one have; to do for one; to be given - contraction of くれろ - Kansai dialect ➜ 呉れる

noun / ~する noun:

• inscription; epitaph; composing the text for an inscription, usu. an epitaph

expression:

• for some reason or other; somehow or other; by some chance - usu. ~に or ~で

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to be a match for; to rival; to be equal to

noun:

• profit motive; (with) the intention to profit; profit-making intention; for profit

noun:

• Japanese mugwort (Artemisia princeps, Artemisia indica var. maximowiczii)
• general term for plants in the Artemisia genus; mugwort; sagebrush; wormwood

noun:

• inn where one rests on the way - archaism
• inn that serves as a meeting place for lovers - archaism ➜ 出合い宿
• inn that introduces clients to prostitutes - archaism ➜ 引き手茶屋

noun:

• getting poised again for charging; toeing the mark again - Sumo term
• starting again; getting a fresh start; going back to square one

noun:

• son (of others); boy; young master - honorific language
• green young man from a well-to-do family; young man innocent of the ways of the world

noun:

• son (of others); boy; young master - honorific language ➜ 坊ちゃん【ぼっちゃん】
• green young man from a well-to-do family; young man innocent of the ways of the world ➜ 坊ちゃん【ぼっちゃん】

expression:

• the beauties of nature as the key poetic theme; the central theme in composing poetry (haiku) must be the beauties of nature and the harmony that exist between nature and man. (The slogan of the Hototogisu School of modern Japanese haiku) - four character idiom ➜ 花鳥風月

noun / ~の noun:

• shopworn goods; dead stock; shelf warmer
• being left unresolved for a long time (e.g. a problem); being shelved - often as 〜が店晒しになる or 〜を店晒しにする

noun:

• state of a country (population, resources, etc.); condition of a country; strength of a country

noun:

• nape of the neck; back of the neck; scruff of the neck

noun:

• degree of perfection; level of completion; degree of completion

noun:

• cheese for melting; melting cheese ➜ 蕩ける【とろける】

expression:

• an eye for an eye - from Matthew 5:38 ➜ 目には目を歯には歯を【めにはめをはにははを】

suffix / ~の noun:

• -clad - after an article of clothing
• in the midst of - after a -masu stem - usually written using kana alone
• tenths (e.g. wholesale price, as tenths of retail price) - after a number in the ichi, ni counting system
• times (i.e. multiplied by) - after a number in the hitotsu, futatsu counting system
• able-to-seat (of a chair, etc.) - after a number of people