expression:

• if you do a favor for somebody, you will get a return favor; if a fish is friendly toward water, water will be kind to the fish too [literal]; you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours - proverb ➜ 魚心あれば水心

adverb / ~の noun:

• close by; right there; short distance away; a hop, skip and jump away
• at once; as soon as possible; immediately

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to weigh one thing against the other; to act in consideration of; to compare and take into consideration

noun:

• doorstop interview; doorstep interview; on-the-move interview; informal interview in which reporters surround a public figure and prod him for an off-the-cuff response

noun:

• sex; sexual intercourse; sound of bed creaking and woman sighing - onomatopoeia - slang ➜ ぎしぎし

noun:

• joint party (e.g. by students from several colleges); combined party; mixer; two or more groups, esp. female and male students, combining for a party ➜ 合コン

noun:

• numbness; going to sleep (of a limb); pins and needles

noun:

• Imjin War (1592-1597); Hideyoshi's invasions of Korea; battle(s) of Bunroku and Keicho

noun:

• heart-to-heart communication; thought transference; holding a flower and subtly smiling [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• Ten'ichijin; Nakagami; god of fortune in Onmyōdō who descends to the northeast on the 46th day of the sexagenary cycle and completes a clockwise circuit, spending five days on each cardinal point and six days on each ordinal point, returning to heaven from the north on the 30th day of the next sexagenary cycle; travelling in the direction of Ten'ichijin is considered unlucky ➜ 陰陽道・己酉・癸巳

noun:

• in-home separation; quasi-divorce; marriage that has broken down but where the wife and husband still live together without getting a divorce

expression:

• inflexible people; heartless people; Buddhist images of wood, metal, and stone [literal]

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to stab; to pierce; to run through (e.g. with a sword)

noun:

• something; something or other; so-and-so ➜ 何とか彼とか

noun:

• fight to the finish; desperate struggle; life-and-death struggle - From English "death match"

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• having presence of mind; self-possessed; imperturbable; calm and self-possessed - four character idiom

noun:

• small fry; ordinary soldiers; rank and file

noun:

• horsehair; horse hair; hair from mane and tail used for brushes and string instrument bows

noun:

• naan; nan; flatbread in Central and South Asian cuisine - From Hindi

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to follow; to pursue; to chase; to run after
• to die right after a loved one; to kill oneself after the death of a loved one
• to follow an example set by earlier generations (or one's master, etc.)

noun / ~の noun:

• snobbery; snobbishness; philistinism; vulgar and ostentatious nature (disposition) - four character idiom

noun:

• scanlation; scanslation; scanning, translation and editing of comics without permission

adverbial noun / ~の noun:

• single-mindedly; wholeheartedly; with one's heart and soul - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

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

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• hyperconsciousness; too great a sense (of); something being only one's imagination; letting imagination run away with one - four character idiom