ichidan verb / transitive:

• to combine; to join; to tie on; to attach with a knot; to bind (e.g. an address)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hold out (e.g. against an attack); to hang on; to withstand; to endure; to last

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to dash (e.g. liquid on someone's face); to slosh; to splash; to souse; to pour

noun:

• pearlscale butterflyfish (Chaetodon xanthurus, Western Pacific species found from Indonesia and the Philippines north to the Ryukyu Islands); Philippines chevron butterflyfish; orange butterflyfish; netted butterflyfish; yellow-tailed butterflyfish

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be packed (with); to be full (space, schedule, etc.)
• to be blocked (road, pipe, etc.); to be clogged; to be plugged up ➜ 鼻が詰まる
• to shorten (width, interval, etc.); to shrink (shirt, word form, etc.); to narrow
• to be at a loss; to be hard pressed - often in the form …につまる ➜ 言葉に詰まる・気の詰まる【きのつまる】
• to end up; to be settled ➜ 詰まる所【つまるところ】
• to become a geminate consonant ➜ 促音【そくおん】
• to hit the ball near the handle of the bat - Baseball term

noun:

• refusing to allow a passenger on board a train or into a bus or taxi

expression / ichidan verb:

• to weigh on a scale
• to weigh up options; to compare pros and cons

noun:

• angel's index; proportion of one's income spent on one's children ➜ エンゲル係数【エンゲルけいすう】

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be too busy; to be occupied; to concentrate on single-mindedly

godan ~ぶ verb / intransitive verb:

• to be harmonious; to get on well; to be intimate or close

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to be harmonious; to get on well; to be intimate or close ➜ 睦ぶ

ichidan verb:

• to hunt a spy; to put a tail on someone; to stalk - from 尾行する and 付ける

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to put on coquettish airs; to act flirtatiously; to act kittenish

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• tightly (holding on); firmly; securely - onomatopoeia
• strongly (built); solidly; sturdily; steadily - onomatopoeia
• properly; well; sufficiently; hard (working, etc.); fully; completely - onomatopoeia
• reliably; dependably; levelheadedly; shrewdly; wisely; cleverly - onomatopoeia

noun:

• minced meat or fish with soy sauce, etc. (served on rice) - Food term

noun / adjectival noun:

• shred (e.g. old clothing falling apart); tangle (objects twisted together); thin slices (esp. food)

noun:

• Edo-period form of torture in which criminals were stuffed into straw bags with their heads exposed, piled together, and whipped (commonly used on Christians)

noun:

• indigenous person; inhabitant of a country
• local; native ［くにびと］
• local lords and samurai
• daimyo who did not leave his domains to meet the shogun in Kyoto (during the Muromachi period) ［くにうど・くにゅうど］ ➜ ざいこくしゅう

noun:

• archaic period of time (usu. a period of approx. two hours corresponding to one of the signs of the Chinese zodiac)
• carving; engraving; cutting; mincing ［刻］
• victory ［剋］
• strictness; cruelty

noun / ~する noun:

• drawing away from someone because of their speech or actions; having the mood ruined
• zooming out or backing the camera away to get a wider image (film, TV)

noun / ~の noun:

• middle of the road; centrism; moderation; golden mean

noun:

• the middle (of what one is doing); half-way
• middle way; middle path - Buddhism term

expression:

• it's no big deal; it's nothing to fret about; it's not like it's the end of the world

expression:

• might is right; history is written by the victors; winners are always right and losers are always in the wrong - proverb

noun:

• thin, soft membrane inside the tip of a bamboo culm; silky inner covering at the tip of a bamboo shoot ➜ 絹皮【きぬかわ】

noun / ~する noun:

• entering a track (of a train); arrival of a train (at a platform)
• passing the post (horseracing); crossing the finish line

noun:

• orca (Orcinus orca); killer whale; grampus
• mythical carp with the head of a lion and the body of a fish (auspicious protectors of well-being) ［しゃち］ - abbreviation ➜ 鯱【しゃちほこ】