noun:

• aizuchi; back-channeling; interjections indicating that one is paying attention
• two smiths hammering at an object in turn ➜ 向こう鎚

noun:

• one group comprising the lowest rank of Japan's Edo-period caste system (people whose work usually involved handling human bodies or animal carcasses) - vulgar ➜ 被差別部落民

noun:

• laying out (e.g. ground plan, garden); layout
• taking space (Go); obtaining land; gaining territory
• training done in one's own stable - Sumo term
• (police) legwork - abbreviation ➜ 地取り捜査

expression:

• avoiding unnecessary talk can prevent disaster falling on one; there is safety in silence; the pheasant would not be shot but for its cries [literal] - proverb

noun / suffix noun:

• earth; ground; land; soil
• place
• territory
• bottom (of a package, book, etc.) ➜ 天地無用
• earth (one of the five elements) ➜ 五大・土【ど】

noun:

• highway (esp. one existing from the Edo period); main road
• highway (e.g. to success); path (to becoming ...) ➜ 出世街道【しゅっせかいどう】

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to draw through one's hand; to stroke (e.g. a beard) ［しごく］
• to work someone hard ［しごく］

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to masturbate - usu. シゴく

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to chew thoroughly; to bite (e.g. one's lip)
• to reflect upon; to digest

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to lie on one's back with legs outstretched; to recline
• to get cocky; to be arrogant

noun:

• the hundredth year
• out of luck; (at the) end of one's rope
• rare chance; unusually good fortune

noun:

• (monetary) present to a person in distress; gift of money in token of one's sympathy; solatium

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to enter into a person's feelings; to guess what somebody feels (using one's intuition)

adverb:

• at last; at length ➜ やっと
• barely; just; by the skin of one's teeth

interjection:

• yo-ho!; heave-ho! ［やっとこさ・やっとこせ］ ➜ やっとこまかせ

noun:

• Muraji (hereditary title; orig. one of the two highest such titles, later demoted to seventh highest of eight) - archaism

noun:

• having one's baby nursed by another woman; wet-nursing; breast milk received from another woman

noun:

• widow (one or more lines separated from the rest of the preceding passage by page or column break) - obscure term - IT term ➜ 分断前部

noun:

• orphan (one or more lines separated from the rest of the following passage by page or paragraph break) - obscure term - IT term ➜ 分断後部

expression:

• the doting parent's purse is plundered; the thief caught turns out to be one's own son [literal] - proverb

noun:

• someone from outside one's own province (China) ➜ 本省人
• someone who moved to Taiwan from the continent after WWII ➜ 本省人

noun:

• winter daylight; winter sunlight - obscure term
• trying to make the most of each day; devoting oneself to one's parents - obscure term

noun:

• heaven and earth; the universe; nature; top and bottom; realm; sphere; world
• top and bottom ［てんち］
• gods of heaven and earth ［あめつち］

~する noun / adverb / ~と adverb:

• to be careless; to be inattentive; to be absentminded; to be slow - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun / ~する noun / adverb:

• long and disheveled (e.g. hair) (dishevelled) - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• flaring up (fire); rising (e.g. steam) - onomatopoeia - archaism

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to tear up; to tear off; to rip up
• to separate (e.g. a couple); to disrupt (a relationship)

noun:

• superior talent and strategic wisdom; outstanding abilities and a talent for developing and implementing grand strategies - four character idiom

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to jump up; to spring up
• to jump (market, price, etc.); to rise sharply; to skyrocket
• to act rashly; to jump the gun