adverb:

• unexpectedly; accidentally; by chance

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to lose a battle to win the war; to incur damage so as to inflict greater damage on a foe; to allow one's flesh to be cut in order to sever another's bone [literal] - idiom

expression:

• how; in what way; by what means ➜ 如何して【どうして】

noun:

• behavior; bearing; demeanor; one's daily life - four character idiom

expression:

• well-known only to those in the know; be well-known but to the few; highly regarded by a select few

~と adverb:

• feelings; memories; imagined items or dreams that sprout up one after the other - onomatopoeia ➜ にょきにょき

noun:

• Lingchi; Leng Tch'e; slow torture by slicing off parts of the body

noun:

• teardrop butterflyfish (Chaetodon unimaculatus); teardrop coralfish; one-spot butterfly

noun:

• Defense Readiness Condition; DEFCON; alert state used by the United States Armed Forces

noun / adverb:

• peep; chirp; beep; whistling, chirping, piping, etc. sound made by birds, insects, pipes, children, etc. - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• poor; hard up; pinched

noun:

• the runs; diarrhea; diarrhoea
• flute; pipe
• beginner; novice

noun:

• pillow money; pillow tip; tip left by the pillow for the room maid

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to shed many tears; to weep; to wring dry one's sleeve (which has been soaked by tears) [literal]

noun:

• magic mallet; lucky mallet; nursery-tale mallet that delivers one's heart's desire at a wave

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to admire greatly; to salute (in admiration); to take one's hat off to - idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be hanged; to be struck dead; to eat one's hat - usu. figurative

noun:

• farewell poem; death poem; poem written during one's final moments

adjectival noun / ~の noun / noun:

• successive; consecutive; back-to-back; one after another - usu. as 続けざまに

expression:

• to the previous extent; as much as previously; as much as one used to - sometines written 前程

noun / ~する noun:

• diversionary tactics (maneuvering); disguise; hide by camouflage - four character idiom

noun:

• air transportation; air transport; transport by air

expression:

• in a few days; in the near future; soon; one of these days

noun / ~する noun:

• an extra effort; going the extra mile; one final push

noun / ~する noun:

• prostrating oneself; kowtowing; going down on one's knees - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to roll around laughing; to fold up; to hold one's sides with laughter

noun:

• parting of the ways; the way to hades; one's way after the parting