noun / ~する noun:

• entering a village; moving to a village

noun / ~する noun:

• coming to a castle; visiting a castle

noun / ~する noun:

• reefing a sail; bringing in a sail

noun:

• middle of a word
• within a word

expression / godan ~る verb (irregular):

• to have a tendency to; to be liable to; to have a touch of; to have a smack of

expression:

• a day in life is better than a thousand days in the afterlife; better one day in this world than a thousand in the next - proverb

noun:

• stretching out a string; stretching out like a string
• silk reeling; silk spinning; filature; silk reeler; silk spinner ➜ 糸取り
• pulling someone's strings
• appearance of strings from a Buddha's fingertips when being prayed to (folk belief)
• menstruation - euphemism

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to pick up
• to adopt (e.g. a proposal); to accept; to take up (a topic, complaint, etc.); to listen to; to deal with; to feature
• to take away; to confiscate; to deprive (someone) of; to revoke
• to deliver (a baby)
• to collect (taxes)

noun:

• very superior old pale (cognac); VSOP
• one-track mind; person who always acts the same or says the same thing (esp. person who always cracks the same kind of jokes) - humorous term - From English "very special one pattern" ➜ ワンパターン
• VLBI Space Observatory Programme; Very Long Baseline Interferometry Space Observatory Programme ➜ 超長距離干渉計【ちょうちょうきょりかんしょうけい】

noun:

• sitting outdoors - archaism
• room that served both as a reception room and as a living room in a Heian-period mansion ➜ 寝殿造り
• temporary sitting place installed in the garden at the imperial court, used on the occasion of archery or sumo ceremonies

noun:

• umbrella; parasol
• something shaped like an umbrella or a conical hat; shade (of a lamp); mushroom cap; pileus ➜ 笠【かさ】

noun / ~する noun:

• reference; bibliographical reference; consultation; browsing (e.g. when selecting a file to upload on a computer); checking out

noun:

• crotch; crutch; groin; thigh
• fork (in a tree, road, river, etc.); tines (of a fork)

~の noun:

• lengthy (of a book, etc.); voluminous Antonym: 小部

adverbial noun:

• most (e.g. most part); greater; fairly; a good deal; much

noun / ~する noun:

• rivalry of local warlords; a number of powerful (talented, influential) persons standing by themselves in a given field - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• pardon; extenuation; excuse ［かしゃく］
• borrowing ［かしゃく］

noun:

• borrowing a kanji with the same pronunciation to write a similar-sounding word

noun:

• hanafuda; Japanese playing cards (12 suits of 4 cards, each suit representing a month indicated by a flower)

noun:

• strut; short vertical post
• thickness (of a book minus the cover, a sheaf of paper, etc.)
• handbreadth; bundle - archaism ➜ 束【そく】

suffix noun:

• suffixed to words indicating a class of people to create a plural (esp. in impolite contexts)

noun:

• shintai; object of worship believed to contain the spirit of a deity, typically housed in a shrine - honorific language - Shintō term ➜ 神体

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to become empty (hollow)
• to relax from a tense situation into a vacant or absent minded state

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make a gesture or say something during a break in conversation, playing of songs, etc.; to interrupt

noun:

• available to promise (i.e. a product is in stock and can be promised to a buyer); ATP

noun:

• robe with a round collar, stitched sides and a ran, worn by the emperor and high-ranking officials ➜ 襴

noun:

• coherence theory (theory that a proposition is true if it corresponds with a specified set of other propositions) ➜ 対応説