noun:

• (unscrupulous) business practices based on an appeal to one's social conscience; (unscrupulous) sales methods used by someone falsely claiming to represent a charitable (social welfare) organization - four character idiom

expression / noun:

• red string of fate; in Chinese-Japanese folklore, fated lovers were said to be joined by an unseen red string, tied around one little finger of each

noun:

• white
• striped mullet fry (Mugil cephalus) ➜ 鯔【ぼら】
• speech; one's lines ➜ せりふ
• white dragon tile - Mahjong term
• winning hand with a pung (or kong) of white dragon tiles - Mahjong term
• white person; Caucasian - abbreviation - archaism ➜ 白人

prefix noun / suffix noun / noun:

• Belgium - abbreviation - obscure term ➜ ベルギー

expression / noun:

• cursing ritual where one visits a shrine at 2 in the morning and nails a doll representing a person to a tree, praying for said person's death ➜ 丑の刻参り

noun:

• cursing ritual where one visits a shrine at 2 in the morning and nails a doll representing a person to a tree, praying for said person's death

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to enclose (with); to surround (with); to encircle
• to turn (one's head, heel, etc.)
• to think over; to work out
• to notify (orally or in writing) - archaism

noun:

• compound ideograph formation (one of the six kanji classifications); making kanji up of meaningful parts (e.g. "mountain pass" is up + down + mountain) ➜ 会意文字

expression:

• one calamity followed close on the heels of another; out of the frying pan into the fire; tiger in front, wolf in the back [literal] - four character idiom

expression / noun:

• a thorn in one's side; a pain in the butt (often someone higher in rank, ability, etc.); nuisance; something in the way - idiom

expression:

• one cannot shake the will of even the lowliest man; a person's will should be respected; even a menial deserves his convictions - proverb

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be in a hurry; to be impatient; to be flustered; to lose one's presence of mind; to be surprised

ichidan verb:

• to anger someone; to provoke; to offend someone; to make somebody's hackles rise
• to square one's shoulders ［いからせる］

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to persist in; to carry out; to have one's own way; to push through; to carry through

expression / ichidan verb:

• to dart one's eyes about; to be surprised; to be bewildered; to be confused; to be flustered

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to turn over (in one's sleep); to toss and turn (in bed)
• to change sides; to double-cross; to betray

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to fail to hear something; to miss
• to act as if one didn't hear something; to let a remark slide

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to do what one is told to; to take someone's advice; to listen to what someone says ➜ 言うことを聞かない

noun:

• groom; footman; stableman; equerry
• steward; intendant
• head of an institution, esp. religious; head of one institution serving also as the head of another - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• going in order; proceeding in order; moving forward in order Antonym: 逆行
• direct motion; prograde motion - Astronomy term
• carrying out something without disobeying one's orders - archaism

ichidan verb:

• to become famous
• to go out into the world; to make one's way in the world; to appear; to be published

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to sleep (not necessarily lying down) ➜ 寝る
• to die
• to lie idle (e.g. of resources); to be dormant; to be unused ［ねむる］
• to close one's eyes - archaism

expression:

• danger past and God forgotten; once on shore, we pray no more; once it's past the throat, one forgets the heat (of the swallowed object) [literal] - proverb

ichidan verb:

• to carry on; to go on with one's life
• to keep alive; to stay alive; to survive

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be coming - abbr. of 来ている ➜ 来る【くる】
• to be popular; to be fashionable - slang
• to be angry; to have blown one's lid - slang ➜ 頭に来る

expression:

• as much as one can; as much as possible; if at all possible