noun:

• message butting in (to a conversation between two other people on a BBS, etc.) - slang

noun:

• school centred on preparing students to get into university ➜ 進学
• high-level school a person has entered

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to set free; to let go; to release
• to miss (e.g. a chance); to lose; to let get away; to fail to catch

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to loiter; to putter; to prowl; to wander aimlessly; to knock around; to hang around
• to be confused from not knowing what to do

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to break (into pieces); to be broken; to be smashed
• to collapse; to crumble; to decline; to cool (e.g. enthusiasm); to dampen (e.g. one's will to fight)
• to become less formal; to throw off reserve; to become affable ➜ くだけた
• to become easy to understand (e.g. a story) ➜ くだけた
• to be worried

noun / ~する noun:

• bowing respectfully with one's hands clasped in front of one's chest - obscure term
• abdication of an emperor to a successor (China) - archaism

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to have a narrow view of things; to look at the ceiling through a reed [literal]

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to have a narrow view of things; to look at the ceiling through a reed [literal]

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to chase after two hares; to try and do two things at the same time - idiom ➜ 二兎を追う者は一兎をも得ず

expression / ichidan verb:

• to help a long-term employee to establish a branch of the same shop

noun:

• humble language in which an action or object is not directed toward the listener (or a third party); humble language used as a courtesy ➜ 謙譲語Ｉ

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to extend the term; to extend a deadline

expression / ichidan verb:

• to summer; to go away for the summer - obscure term

noun:

• customer appeal; the power to appeal to customers - four character idiom

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to whirl; to eddy; to swirl; to curl (smoke)
• to be all jumbled together (feelings, thoughts, etc.)
• to surge; to sweep

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be sorry; to beg pardon; to be much obliged; to feel small
• to be grateful
• to be amazed; to be filled with awe; to be surprised
• to be disconcerted; to be embarrassed

noun:

• portable shrine (carried in festivals) - polite language ➜ 御輿
• buttocks; lower back; waist; hips - usually written using kana alone ➜ 腰【こし】

noun:

• back screen (esp. hitter's background in center field) - Baseball term

noun:

• parroting back; repeating (something one was told) like a parrot - oft. adv. as おうむ返しに

adjectival noun / noun:

• laid-back; carefree; easygoing; thoughtless; happy-go-lucky

noun:

• dropping; losing - abbreviation
• missing item; something one forgot to write down
• trap
• wooden protrusion from a Japanese door frame that fits a hole in the threshold, acting as a lock when closed
• conclusion (of a speech, etc.)
• metallic bowl used to hold the charcoal in a wooden hibachi ➜ 落とし掛け

noun:

• Naso (genus of tropical marine surgeonfishes in the family Acanthuridae known as unicorn fishes due to a spike protruding from the forehead)

expression:

• what will happen to everyone else if I am not the one who goes? (expression of confidence from someone going out into the world)

noun:

• with no one upon whom to depend; utter loneliness; the lonely and the helpless; people who have no kith or kin - four character idiom

noun:

• kingdom - Biology term
• erathem (rock layer corresponding to the era in which it was deposited) - Geology term
• partition of land

suffix:

• the world of (some category)