noun:

• Woman of the Year, referring to a woman born in a year with the same Chinese zodiac sign as the current year

expression / ichidan verb:

• to open the lid; to lift a lid Antonym: 蓋を閉める
• to open the lid (on); to make public - idiom
• to start (something) - idiom
• to look at the results (consequences, outcome, effect); to look at the condition of something - idiom
• to open (of a theatre) - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• close examination; careful selection; testing; scrutiny
• examination of criminal charges
• reciting and appreciating traditional poetry - orig. meaning - archaism

noun:

• star (esp. television); personality - From English "talent"
• talent; skill
• talent; unit of currency in ancient Greece and Israel ➜ タラント

noun:

• administrative divisions of Japan: Tokyo-to, Hokkai-do, Osaka-fu, Kyoto-fu and remaining prefectures

noun:

• binding hand and foot; temporary feeling of paralysis; sleep paralysis
• being tied down with money - colloquialism

noun / ~する noun:

• enduring something out of pride; putting up with it; grinning and bearing it

adjectival noun:

• explosive
• sudden and dramatic (of an increase in sales, popularity, etc.); explosive; rapid; abrupt; tremendous

noun:

• training partner
• training hall (esp. one made of wooden planks and used for dancing practice)

noun:

• harmony, respect, purity and tranquility; the four most important elements of the tea ceremony - four character idiom

noun:

• distinctive body odor (odour) of the middle-aged and elderly (caused by the chemical nonenal) ➜ ノネナール

noun:

• prefixed unit of measurement (i.e. millimeter, kilogram, etc.) - obsolete term
• supplementary SI unit (radian and steradian) ➜ 組立単位

noun:

• Achilles argument (i.e. Achilles and the tortoise; one of Zeno's paradoxes) ➜ ゼノンの逆説

noun:

• moon
• Tsukuyomi (god of the moon in Shinto and mythology)

noun:

• holiday granted to servants on the 16th of the first and seventh months - archaism

noun:

• area of the Edo castle where the shogun would work and spend his daily life

noun:

• something that smells of fish or blood ➜ 生臭い
• meat and fish ➜ 生臭物
• degenerate monk; corrupt priest - abbreviation ➜ 生臭坊主

noun:

• all pungs; winning hand consisting of four pungs or kongs and one pair - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• soup of dumplings filled with walnuts and brown sugar, boiled together with vegetables, tofu, etc. - Food term

noun:

• off and on manner; intermittent style; dragging on and on - often 五月雨式に - four character idiom ➜ 五月雨【さみだれ】

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to fix upon (one-sidedly); to (ignore somebody's position and) arbitrarily decide something is the case
• to scold; to take (a person) to task

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to force someone to clamp with their teeth; to force into someone's mouth (e.g. a gag) ➜ 猿ぐつわをかます【さるぐつわをかます】
• to wedge into a space
• to inflict (a blow); to deal (a hit) ➜ 一発かます【いっぱつかます】
• to pull (a joke); to say or do (something stupid); to try (a bluff)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to force someone to clamp with their teeth; to force into someone's mouth (e.g. a gag)
• to wedge into a space
• to inflict (a blow); to deal (a hit)
• to pull (a joke); to say or do (something stupid); to try (a bluff)

noun:

• being carried away by a current
• drowning in a river; person who drowned in a river
• cancellation; standing up; breaking a promise

noun:

• labour and management; labor and management