expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be in the news; to be talked about; to become a popular topic of conversation; to become the talk of the town; to become topical

noun:

• apomictic; of or relating to a plant that reproduces by apomixis; related to reproduction without fertilization, meiosis or production of gametes, with the result that the seeds are genetically identical to the parent plant

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to slacken; to loosen; to relax; to droop (e.g. loose or flabby skin); to sag (ceiling)
• to slack off (e.g. one's work, attention); to not put one's heart in

noun:

• one's own country
• home country (as opposed to a colony)
• country of one's ancestors

noun / ~する noun:

• praising Buddha; sermon - Buddhism term
• praise (second of the five gates of mindfulness) - Buddhism term ➜ 五念門
• style of Buddhistic song of praise, usually praising Buddha, the Bodhisattva, the Buddhistic teachings, etc. - Buddhism term
• rumor; rumour; hearsay - archaism

adverb / ~する noun:

• roughly; approximately; loosely - onomatopoeia
• cutting or breaking apart with vigour - onomatopoeia
• deeply (cut or split) - onomatopoeia
• rough (woollens, etc., as adjectival phrase with (to)shita) - onomatopoeia
• sound of treading on pebbles - onomatopoeia

noun:

• altered photograph, usu. with sexual connotations, such as putting someone's face on top of a picture of a nude idol, etc. - From English "idol collage"

noun:

• karayuki-san; young Japanese women who were sent to work (mainly as prostitutes) in foreign countries, esp. in Southeast Asia (Meiji to early Showa) ➜ 唐行き【からゆき】

noun:

• three shop system; system employed by pachinko parlours of using separate shops to exchange prizes for cash as a way of circumventing Japan's gambling laws

noun:

• green tea; green leaf tea; non-powdered tea (as opposed to matcha) ➜ 抹茶
• medium-grade green tea ➜ 玉露・番茶

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to say as a tradition; to customarily say
• to have a habit of saying

~する noun:

• to become a mistress; to serve as a concubine ➜ 妾奉公
• to serve one's master ➜ 主人に仕える

noun:

• style of haikai or haiku from the Tenmei era (based on a return to the style of Basho) ➜ 天明・蕉風
• style of comical tanka from the Tenmei era (popularized by Oota Nampo) ➜ 狂歌

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to spit in the wind; to piss in the wind; to get caught in your own trap; to reap what you sow; to turn to the sky and spit [literal] - idiom ➜ 天に唾する【てんにつばする】

expression / ~する verb (spec.):

• to spit in the wind; to piss in the wind; to get caught in your own trap; to reap what you sow; to turn to the sky and spit [literal] - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• hit; base hit; safe hit; single - Baseball term
• hit; success
• hit (e.g. boxing, hockey); blow - Sports term
• hit (i.e. as a search result) - IT term

noun:

• double doors opening from the centre

~の noun:

• double-opening from the centre (e.g. doors, casement windows, etc.)

noun:

• method of filleting fish, chicken, etc. with a central cut and peeling back the flesh

noun:

• "Helping Hands" comedy performance; performance in which one person wears a haori on their shoulders, while another person behind them puts their arms through the sleeves of the haori and feeds the person in front ➜ 羽織

noun:

• origin of a character
• composition of a Chinese character
• Chinese character from which a kana character is derived

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to have an audience; to meet; to see - humble language
• to face (an enemy); to confront
• to serve (esp. as one's wife)

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to have a well-defined character (of video game, anime, etc. character); to stand out as a character

noun:

• outline; main point; gist

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• general; substantially; approximately; about
• in the first place; to begin with; from the start

noun:

• the northeastern (unlucky) direction; person or thing to be avoided; the demon's gate [literal]
• weak point; Achilles' heel

noun:

• the 36 (ancient Chinese military) strategies (of which the last resort was said to be beating a retreat) - four character idiom

noun:

• Japanese scull (oar attached to the rear of the boat by a traditional peg-in-hole oarlock)