lower nidan verb (archaic) / transitive:

• to change; to alter; to revise; to replace - archaism ➜ 改める
• to examine; to check; to inspect - archaism ➜ 改める

noun:

• number (in a series)
• (one's) turn
• watch; guard; lookout
• bout; match - Sumo term

noun:

• the opening(s) (e.g. in a game of go or chess)

noun:

• one's feeling while riding; comfort (of a vehicle); ride quality

noun:

• unbuttoning a collar
• opening up (one's heart)
• open-necked shirt - abbreviation ➜ 開襟シャツ

noun:

• (historical) banishment from one's residence as a form of judicial punishment

noun:

• activist (in a political movement); crusader (e.g. for women's rights)

noun / ~する noun:

• lover's whispers; sweet nothings; whispered intimacies

noun:

• babbling (of a baby); babble

noun:

• final cut severing a wrestler's top-knot in his retirement ceremony - Sumo term

noun / ~する noun:

• breaking off short (in one's speech); rendered speechless for a moment - four character idiom

noun:

• determination of a child's sex before birth (e.g. by ultrasound)

noun:

• gold braid (e.g. on a military officer's uniform)

noun:

• P-valve; urinal built into a diver's dry suit

noun:

• men's hairstyle with small sideburns and a wide forehead (Edo period)

noun:

• going elsewhere
• travelling afar with one's client (of a geisha, etc.)

noun:

• taking food with one's chopsticks upside down (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• winning on a tile robbed from another player's kong - Mahjong term ➜ 加槓【かカン】

adverbial noun / temporal noun / ~の noun:

• whole life; a lifetime; all through life; one existence; a generation; an age; the whole world; the era

~の noun:

• (the only, the greatest, etc.) of one's life

noun:

• meeting one's master for the first time (of a new servant); ceremony at which a new servant has his first audience with his new master - archaism

upper nidan verb (archaic) / intransitive verb:

• to pass through; to pass by; to go beyond - archaism ➜ 過ぎる【すぎる】
• to pass (i.e. of time); to elapse - archaism ➜ 過ぎる【すぎる】
• to have expired; to have ended; to be over - archaism ➜ 過ぎる【すぎる】
• to exceed; to surpass; to be above - archaism ➜ 過ぎる【すぎる】

noun:

• shrine ritual held with the first two months of the year to forecast (or pray for) a successful harvest
• seasonal planting of rice on a field affiliated with a shrine

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to become intimate with (e.g. a woman); to become acquainted

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to sigh; to breathe a sigh

~する noun:

• to make an all-night vigil; to spend a sleepless night - from the name 小室哲哉, as 哲哉 and 徹夜 are read てつや - slang

expression / godan -いく／-ゆく verb (spec.):

• to be adopted; to enter a family as an adopted child