noun:

• working one's way up

noun / ~の noun:

• self-made person; veteran

noun:

• noncommissioned officer of the Japanese Air Self Defense Forces (Defence)

noun:

• self-timer; delayed-action (shutter release)

noun:

• Dharma seals; three marks of existence (suffering, impermanence, non-Self)

prefix:

• self-
• from ... ［じ］ ➜ 至
• this ... (in contrast to some other ...); aforementioned ［じ］

noun:

• self-playing musical instrument (e.g. music box, player piano)

~する noun / adverb / ~と adverb:

• to be careless; to be inattentive; to be absentminded; to be slow - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun / ~する noun / adverb:

• long and disheveled (e.g. hair) (dishevelled) - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• flaring up (fire); rising (e.g. steam) - onomatopoeia - archaism

noun:

• departure; setting off; start
• being used up; being consumed; being burnt out
• passage of time; lapse
• rehearsal - abbreviation ➜ 立ち稽古【たちげいこ】
• leading male role in kabuki - abbreviation ➜ 立ち役【たちやく】
• rising from a crouch to charge; initial charge; faceoff - abbreviation - Sumo term ➜ 立会い【たちあい】

prefix:

• verb prefix conveying emphasis and sometimes formality

noun:

• antinomy; self-contradiction - four character idiom
• either-or situation; choice between mutually exclusive alternatives - colloquialism

noun:

• infantry (in the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force)
• general education curriculum ➜ 普通課程

noun:

• self-aggrandizement under pretense of aiding another (aggrandisement, pretence)

noun / ~の noun:

• desire to act only in one's self-interest; selfish desires - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• self-reliance; acting according to one's own ideas and beliefs - four character idiom

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

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

noun:

• boue chauffante (self-heating mud-pack for cosmetic purposes) - From French

noun:

• poor and careless way of living - archaism - male language
• self deprecating first person pronoun

noun:

• Transportation Corps (Service branch of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force) ➜ 輜重兵

noun:

• self-introduction (of a character in noh theatre) ➜ 名乗り

adverb / ~と adverb:

• focussing on only one thing; obsessively; intensely - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun:

• selfish; self-serving - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• taking care of oneself (esp. used as an epistolary imperative)
• self-love

adjectival noun / noun:

• self-willed; (doing or saying things) to suit one's own convenience - four character idiom

noun:

• boot camp for new recruits (conducted by Japan's Self-Defence Force)

noun:

• manas (defiled mental consciousness, which gives rise to the perception of self) - Buddhism term ➜ 末那識

noun:

• being absorbed in self-indulgent pleasures; giving oneself up to debauchery and dissipation - four character idiom

noun:

• being absorbed in self-indulgent pleasures; giving oneself up to debauchery and dissipation - four character idiom