expression:

• Unpreparedness is one's greatest enemy; He that is too secure is not safe - four character idiom

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to ask; to inquire; to hear; to be told - humble language
• to implore (a god for an oracle); to seek direction (from your superior)

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to visit - humble language
• to speak to (a large crowd at a theatre, etc.) - from 御機嫌を伺う

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to run (a business); to operate; to conduct; to practice (law, medicine, etc.)
• to carry out; to perform; to lead (a life)
• to hold (a Buddhist or Shinto ceremony)

noun:

• clicking the shutter of a camera without taking a picture (because no film is loaded, or in order to advance the film)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to cut off the head of a sleeping person; to assassinate someone while he sleeps
• to catch someone off his guard by setting traps

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun / adjectival noun:

• unsteadily (e.g. on one's feet); shakily; staggering; reeling; tottering; dizzily - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• wandering; wavering; aimlessly; without knowing what one is doing; having no goal in mind - onomatopoeia

noun:

• identity or background check (often to see if someone is a burakumin) - colloquialism

noun / ~する noun:

• adding or removing rolling stock to a train that is in service

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to stop (doing something); to cease; to put aside
• to leave as is; to leave alone
• to exclude; to except ➜ を措いて【をおいて】

adjectival noun:

• seeming to be for a certain reason; seeming to indicate there are special circumstances; seeming to indicate there is more than meets the eye

noun / ~の noun:

• (similar to) perinatal; period from around the 28th week of pregnancy to a week after the baby is born

noun:

• hit
• success
• guess; prediction
• affability; friendliness
• sensation; touch
• bruise (on fruit)
• situation in which a stone or chain of stones may be captured on the next move (in the game of go)
• bite (of a fish on a hook); strike - also written as 魚信 ➜ 魚信

suffix:

• per; each

expression:

• good advice is harsh to the ears; honest advice is often unpleasant to the ears - four character idiom

noun:

• flower charcoal (whereby a flower, seed, branch, or other item of flora is carbonized as is, retaining its form)

noun / ~する noun:

• reporting; returning (one's findings to a person)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to enjoy (a person's) favor (favour)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make (a person) pay for (something) ➜ 痛い目に合う

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to send a person on an errand

noun / ~する noun:

• coming to Japan (of a non-Japanese person)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make a person's blood run cold - idiom ➜ 寒からしめる

noun:

• convert; person converted to a religion or belief

expression / adverb:

• openly; squarely; directly; to a person's face

expression / noun:

• gathering to remember a dead person; memorial meeting

noun:

• great harm (esp. to a person); murder - obscure term

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to peek (though a keyhole, gap, etc.)
• to look down into (a ravine, etc.)
• to peek into (a shop, bookstore, etc.)
• to sneak a look at; to take a quick look at
• to peep (through a telescope, microscope, etc.)

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to stick out (a scarf from a collar, etc.); to peek through (sky through a forest canopy, etc.)

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to examine (an expression); to study (a face)

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to face - esp. 臨く - archaism ➜ 臨む