expression:

• sacrifice something small in order to save something great; lose a leg to save one's life; to let a large bug live and kill a small one [literal] - proverb

noun:

• stock (in grafting)
• wood used as a platform (or base, etc.); block (i.e. chopping block); (gun) stock; unworked block of wood

noun:

• sō-on; Song reading; on reading of a kanji based on Song dynasty and later Chinese (esp. in words related to Zen Buddhism) ➜ 唐音【とうおん】・宋【そう】

noun:

• using one's chopsticks to jump from side dish to side dish without pausing to eat rice in between (a breach of etiquette) ➜ 渡り箸

noun:

• using one's chopsticks to jump from side dish to side dish without pausing to eat rice in between (a breach of etiquette) ➜ 移り箸

noun:

• decreasing birthrate and aging population; aging population combined with the diminishing number of children; declining birthrate and a growing proportion of elderly people; dwindling birthrate and an aging population; low birthrate and longevity ➜ 少子化・高齢化

expression:

• a wise person always follows the right course; a wise man never wavers - four character idiom

noun:

• refreshing breeze and the bright moon; a beautiful nocturnal scene with a full moon - four character idiom

noun:

• regular adoption (official adoption with the consent of both parties and without dissolving the relationship with the biological parents)

noun:

• lady-killer (i.e. a man who is popular with women); knocking a woman dead (with sex appeal)
• murderer of women
• murder of women

expression:

• evading blame for a transgression by pinning it on a subordinate and abandoning them; a skink lizard's shedding of its tail [literal] - idiom

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to become muddy; to become cloudy; to get impure (of a liquid, gas, etc.)
• to become dull (of a sound, color, etc.); to become hoarse
• to become impure (of a heart, society, etc.); to be corrupted; to be polluted
• to become voiced; to add voiced consonant marks ➜ 濁り【にごり】

noun:

• wooden doll with Japanese costumes made from cloth with the edges tucked into grooves in the wood; kimekomi doll

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be at a loss; to be in a corner

noun:

• Buddha figure carved into a rock
• Buddha figure in a cabinet

noun:

• in-car announcement (on a train); PA system on a train

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to forestall; to beat to the punch; to anticipate
• to play the first move (e.g. in go)

adverb:

• holding horizontally in one's mouth; holding on the side of one's mouth

noun:

• tooth hardening toy (for infants); teether; teething ring
• tooth hardening meal; New Year's feast

expression:

• the former and the latter; A and B

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to finish off; to ensure (something) is dead; to deliver the coup de grace
• to put an end to; to deliver the final blow
• to be the best for A - as ＡはＢに止めを刺す

noun / ~する noun:

• rendezvous; meeting; assignation

noun:

• area where guests gather before the start of a tea ceremony
• waiting room - abbreviation ➜ 待合室【まちあいしつ】
• meeting place for assignations, drinking, etc. - archaism - abbreviation ➜ 待合茶屋【まちあいぢゃや】

noun / ~する noun:

• landing on an aircraft carrier; deck-landing
• reaching a warship; arrival of a warship (at a port)

noun:

• semi-Western, semi-Japanese wooden sailing boat, popular during the latter half of the Meiji period and the Taisho period

noun:

• parting of the ways; the way to hades; one's way after the parting