noun:

• mythical Japanese hominid (similar to yeti or Bigfoot)

noun:

• Japanese staunton-vine (Stauntonia hexaphylla)

noun:

• Japanese domestic market (esp. for automobiles); JDM

noun:

• 16th-century Jesuit-founded Japanese college - From Portuguese "collegio"

noun:

• Japanese book size (approx. 17.5cm by 25cm) ➜ 半紙【はんし】

noun:

• Japanese containing expressions literally translated from European languages

noun:

• traditional Japanese steel (e.g. used in swords)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to wear (sword, decoration, etc.); to carry
• to be entrusted (e.g. with a mission); to take on
• to have a trace of; to be tinged with ➜ 赤味を帯びた【あかみをおびた】

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to do; to undertake; to perform; to play (a game); to study - colloquialism ➜ 為る【する】
• to send; to dispatch; to despatch
• to put; to move; to turn (one's head, glance, etc.)
• to give (esp. to someone of equal or lower status); to let have; to present; to bestow; to confer
• to make (a vehicle) go faster
• to run (a business); to keep; to be engaged in; to practice (law, medicine, etc.); to practise
• to have (food, drink, etc.); to eat; to drink; to smoke
• to hold (a performance); to perform; to show ➜ 演る
• to ease (one's mind)
• to harm; to injure; to kill - colloquialism ➜ 殺る
• to have sex with - slang ➜ 犯る

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to live; to get by; to get along ➜ やって行く・やって来る

suffix / godan ~る verb:

• to do ... completely - after the -masu stem of a verb, often in the negative
• to do ... broadly; to do ... to a great distance - after the -masu stem of a verb

auxiliary verb / godan ~る verb:

• to do ... for (someone of equal or lower status); to do ... to (sometimes with negative nuance) - after the -te form of a verb
• to make active efforts to ... - after the -te form of a verb

noun / ~する noun:

• trifling with; toying with; playing with; making sport of; making fun of; leading around by the nose
• tossing about (a ship)

noun:

• water from the capital (Kyoto), rumored to have a whitening effect - archaism
• type of washing lotion from the end of the Edo period - archaism ➜ 化粧水

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to advance; to go forward
• to precede; to go ahead (of)
• to make progress; to improve
• to deepen; to heighten
• to be fast (of a clock); to be ahead
• to do of one's own free will ➜ 進んで

noun / ~する noun:

• front and back; inside and outside; two sides; both sides

noun:

• duplicity; double-dealing; being two-faced

noun:

• eyes and ears; seeing and hearing
• one's attention; one's interest

adverb / ~の noun:

• repeatedly; frequently; over and over; time and time again

adverb:

• exceedingly; sincerely; very much

noun:

• between-season wear; spring and autumn clothing; spring and fall clothing

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to descend (e.g. a mountain); to go down; to come down - esp. 下りる
• to alight (e.g. from bus); to get off; to disembark; to dismount - esp. 降りる
• to step down; to retire; to give up; to quit
• to be granted; to be issued; to be given - esp. 下りる
• to form (of frost, dew, mist, etc.) - esp. 降りる
• to be passed (from the body; e.g. of a roundworm) - esp. 下りる ➜ 下り物

noun:

• five flavors (sweet, salty, spicy, sour, bitter); five palates; five tastes
• five flavors (milk at various stages of making ghee: fresh milk, cream, curdled milk, butter, and ghee); "the five periods of the Buddha's teachings" [figurative] - Buddhism term ➜ 五時教

noun:

• between-season wear; spring and autumn clothing; spring and fall clothing - also written as 間 - abbreviation ➜ 合い服

suffix:

• together
• condition; situation; state
• -ish

expression:

• sleep four hours and pass, sleep five hours and fail (when cramming for university entrance exams) - four character idiom

expression:

• Riches and honors are as fleeting as floating clouds; Fortune and fame are here today, gone tomorrow - four character idiom

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• being both repellant and attractive at the same time; being both cute and disgusting - slang - colloquialism

noun:

• inner sanctuary; inner shrine; sanctum sanctorum; holy of holies; place behind main hall of a temple enshrining temple founder, miraculous Buddhas, hidden statues, etc. - Buddhism term

noun:

• rear gate (esp. of castle); back entrance ➜ 大手【おおて】
• one who arrests
• force attacking the rear of a castle ➜ 大手【おおて】
• (opponent's) weak point

noun:

• formality; social rules
• social status; social standing
• amendments and enforcement regulations (of the ritsuryo) - usu. きゃくしき - archaism ➜ 律令