noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• honourable defeat; honorable defeat; honourable death; honorable death; death without surrender
• trying but being utterly beaten; being completely rejected when professing one's love ［玉砕］ - colloquialism

noun:

• yarn dyeing; thread dyeing; prior dyeing of thread before cloth is woven

noun:

• hero package (commercial in which the product is the hero of the segment)

noun:

• somebody who has wild fantasies; someone who hears voices; someone who is crazy

expression:

• the future is unpredictable; unscrutable are the ways of heaven; the irony of fate - proverb ➜ 人間万事塞翁が馬

noun:

• way of hearing; way a spoken statement is taken; way of asking

expression:

• the eyes are the windows to the soul; the eye is the lamp of the body - proverb

noun:

• strong person; person putting on a brave front - after the name of a 12th-century warrior monk
• bamboo tube with holes drilled in it (used as a stand for kitchen utensils, fans, etc.)
• checks; plaid; checked pattern - abbreviation ➜ 弁慶縞

noun:

• making great haste, having been caught off guard; scurrying unprepared
• rushing to an emergency with sword in hand, not having had time to affix it at the waist

noun:

• thank God it's Friday; TGIF; going out on Friday night; flowery Friday (when young men et al. stay out late) [literal] - from 花の金曜日

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to dish up; to fill (a bowl) with
• to pile up; to heap up; to fill up; to stack up
• to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to prescribe
• to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)
• to mark out (e.g. scale); to graduate (e.g. thermometer)
• to exaggerate; to apply heavy makeup - slang

noun:

• populism (politics) - usu. ポピュリズム ➜ 人民主義
• populism; literary movement in France that emerged in the 1930s ［ポピュリスム］ - From French "populisme"

noun:

• clocks made in Japan, mainly in the Edo period; clocks that tell Japanese time

noun:

• the path that one should follow as a human being; the path of benevolence

expression:

• to not be getting with the times; to be unaware that things are changing - from a fable in Master Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals - idiom

expression:

• to not be getting with the times; to be unaware that things are changing - idiom

expression:

• to not be getting with the times; to be unaware that things are changing - from a fable in Master Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals - idiom

expression:

• A virtuous person does (should) not commit an act that offends his moral principles no matter how hard pressed he may be - four character idiom

noun:

• getting frightened even by a slight noise; hearing the enemy in every leaf that rustles; being afraid of one's own shadow - four character idiom

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to cure; to heal - usu. 治す
• to fix; to correct; to repair - usu. 直す

auxiliary verb:

• to do over again - after -masu base of verb; usu. 直す
• to replace; to put back as it was - usu. 直す - Kansai dialect
• to convert (into a different state); to transform - usu. 直す

noun:

• wrapping paper for a present; gift wrapping paper; wrapping paper with a noshi decoration printed on it ➜ 熨斗【のし】

expression:

• a moment of time in a spring evening (is worth a thousand pieces of gold) - four character idiom

expression:

• a moment of time in a spring evening is worth a thousand pieces of gold - proverb ➜ 春宵一刻

noun:

• supermoon; full moon or new moon occurring while the Moon is closest to the Earth

godan ~つ verb / intransitive verb:

• to stick up (hair, etc.); to stand up straight
• to stand up abruptly; to jump to one's feet
• to stand in one place, doing nothing in particular; to stand around; to stand flat-footed