expression:

• start with the first step; when embarking on a great project, start with immediate steps - proverb
• he who first suggests it should be the first to do it - proverb

noun:

• presumption of legitimacy; presumption of child in wedlock; presumption that the ex-husband is the father of a woman's child born within 300 days of their divorce - Law term

noun:

• pattern; figure; design
• state; condition
• conjecture of the current situation; the way it seems
• model; pattern; example
• indicates that something seems likely (e.g. rain or storm) - after a noun
• framework (in go); territorial framework; moyo

noun:

• leader; boss
• upper part of a flag
• (Okinawa) bamboo poles with an attached vertical flag and an elaborate display at the top that are used during the annual fertility and thanks-giving festivals

noun / suffix noun:

• angle
• square (or cube)
• bishop - abbreviation - Shōgi term ➜ 角行【かくぎょう】
• third degree (of the Japanese & Chinese pentatonic scale) ➜ 五音
• Chinese "horn" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - Astronomy term ➜ 角宿・二十八宿【にじゅうはっしゅく】・蒼竜【そうりょう】
• jiao (monetary unit of China; one-tenth of a yuan) ➜ 元【げん】

noun:

• young men who are not competitive as in the traditional male stereotype, including in the avid pursuit of money and sex, and who may also be kind, co-operative and family-oriented ➜ 草食男子【そうしょくだんし】

noun:

• the sum of the length, width, and height of a package; length + width + height

expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

• to extend from one year to the next; to go to the next year

noun:

• wearing a kasaya; wearing an article of clothing in the same manner as a kasaya (i.e. draped over one shoulder) ➜ 袈裟
• slashing a sword diagonally from the shoulder ➜ 袈裟切り

noun:

• thrust; stab; lunge; pass (in fencing)
• tsuki; thrust to the throat (in kendo) - Martial Arts term
• tsuki; thrust to the chest - Sumo term

noun:

• spring rain that falls around the time that flowers bloom; spring rain that hastens the blooming of flowers

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to go through; to pass through
• to struggle through; to get through (difficulties, danger, etc.); to escape (through the cordon); to evade (the law)

noun:

• number crossword (var. of kanji crossword puzzle with numbers where squares with the same number contain the same kanji)

noun / ~する noun:

• looking up while hitting the ball; keeping one's chin up and not looking at the ball while hitting it - Sports term - From English "head up"

noun:

• cannot allow (oneself) to live (with someone) under the canopy of heaven; cannot allow (the sworn enemy) to live in this world; irreconcilable (enemy) - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• reading (the parts one is interested in); reading here and there; skimming through; browsing
• reading word by word; reading only the parts one can understand

expression:

• used to create a rhetorical question indicating that the speaker actually believes the opposite is true; emphasizes a determination not to do something by means of a rhetorical question - female language ➜ ものか

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to publish; to print; to carry (an article)
• to put up; to hang out; to hoist; to fly (a sail); to float (a flag, kite, etc.)
• to tuck up (e.g. sleeves); to roll up
• to tout (a principle, plan, etc.); to adopt (a slogan)
• to stoke a fire; to fan a flame

noun:

• country with a constitutional government; constitutional state; country where the rule of law prevails; system based on the rule of law

noun:

• secretary-general; general secretary (esp. of Communist parties of the Democratic Republic of North Korea and the People's Republic of China) ➜ 主席

noun:

• priest's flapper made from the tail of a large deer; long stick with the tail of a large deer attached ➜ 払子

~する verb (irregular):

• to do; to carry out; to perform
• to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into)
• to serve as; to act as; to work as
• to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
• to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as - as 〜にする,〜とする
• to decide on; to choose - as 〜にする

~する verb (irregular) / intransitive verb:

• to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.) - as 〜がする
• to be (in a state, condition, etc.)
• to be worth; to cost
• to pass (of time); to elapse

~する verb (irregular) / transitive:

• to place, or raise, person A to a post or status B - as AをBにする
• to transform A to B; to make A into B; to exchange A for B - as AをBにする
• to make use of A for B; to view A as B; to handle A as if it were B - as AをBにする
• to feel A about B - as AをBにする

suffix / ~する verb (irregular):

• verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs")

auxiliary verb / ~する verb (irregular):

• creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go") ➜ お願いします・御
• to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to; to attempt to - as 〜うとする,〜ようとする ➜ とする

noun / ~の noun:

• the past; bygone days; the previous
• a past (i.e. a personal history one would prefer remained secret); one's past
• past (tense); preterit; preterite - Linguistics term
• previous life - Buddhism term

expression:

• rubbernecking; the thrill of looking at something scary or unpleasant and wanting to look at it all the more because it is scary or unpleasant

noun / ~の noun:

• one side; one party; counterpart; the other side; the other party ➜ 両方
• one of a pair; fellow; mate