noun:

• Shoki the Plague-Queller; Zhong Kui (traditional Chinese deity said to prevent plagues and ward off evil beings); vanquisher of ghosts and evil beings, and reputedly able to command 80,000 demons
• Shoki (WWII fighter aircraft)

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to put; to place
• to leave (behind)
• to establish (an organization, a facility, a position, etc.); to set up
• to appoint (someone to a certain position); to hire; to employ
• to place (one's trust, one's faith, etc); to bear (in mind etc)
• to put down a tool (e.g. a pen) hence stopping what one is doing with that tool
• to take in (boarders, etc.); to provide lodging in one's house
• to separate spatially or temporally

godan ~く verb / auxiliary verb:

• to do something in advance - after the -te form of a verb - usually written using kana alone
• to leave something in a certain state; to keep something in a certain state - after the -te form of a verb - usually written using kana alone

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

~する noun / adverb / ~と adverb:

• to be hairy (person); to be thickly bearded - onomatopoeia
• to be dense (vegetation); to be thick - onomatopoeia
• to be slow (person); to be dull - onomatopoeia

expression:

• the soft may prove more durable than the hard; willow trees don't break under the weight of snow [literal] - proverb

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be choked up; to be crushed (emotionally); to be overcome (with emotion); to be shocked; to be horrified

noun:

• method of dyeing in which a color repeatedly goes from dense to diffuse, diffuse to dense - imported from western China and used in Buddhist pictures, temple ornaments, etc., during the Nara and Heian periods

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to develop a rash or inflammation (e.g. in response to a skin irritant); to react to (something)
• to be strongly influenced (usu. negative or critical nuance)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make someone understand their fate; to reason with; to persuade; to deliver an imperial edict (which cannot be refused) [literal] - archaism

expression:

• if one is unlucky; if one is careless; if things don't go well

expression:

• if one is unlucky; if one is careless; if things don't go well

godan ~ぶ verb / intransitive verb:

• to be blown off; to blow off; to blow away
• to vanish; to disappear

expression / ichidan verb:

• to press alcohol on someone; to urge somebody to drink; to offer alcohol to someone

expression / ichidan verb:

• to lend an ear; to hearken; to give an ear to; to listen carefully

godan ~く verb / expression:

• to turn away; to face away; to ignore
• to be uncooperative; to be unconciliatory

expression / ichidan verb:

• to speak to; to give a (something) talk to; to speak words of (something)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to give oneself to (esp. of a woman to a man); to surrender oneself to

godan ~う verb:

• to put on armour (armor); to wear armour; to arm oneself
• to wear; to cover

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to glare at; to scowl at; to glower at ➜ 睨む
• to stare intensely at; to examine carefully ➜ 睨む

noun / ~する noun:

• performing a part in one's own play; playing a musical piece that one has written - four character idiom
• doing everything by oneself (from preparation to execution)
• put-up job; charade
• sock-puppeting (i.e. pretending to be more than one person on the Internet)

expression:

• the more you do (it), the... (e.g. "the more you drink, the better it tastes")

expression:

• the light comes from the East; the light rises from the East; ex oriente lux - from the Roman saying, in reference to Constantinople - proverb

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be befuddled (with drink); to be intoxicated
• to be infatuated; to be entranced; to be carried away

ichidan verb:

• to be saucy (of children); to be impudent; to be cheeky; to be sassy; to be precocious

noun:

• New Year's holiday; period encompassing the close of the old year and the start of the New Year - four character idiom