noun:

• prince's message; command of a prince

noun:

• driving skill; one's skill as a driver

noun:

• (as small as a) cat's forehead ➜ 猫の額

noun:

• Buddha's seat; seat of a high monk - Buddhism term

noun / ~の noun:

• artisan's temperament; character of a complete artisan ➜ 職人気質【しょくにんかたぎ】

noun:

• staying the night (of an itinerant priest in Zen buddhism); itinerant priest's lodging - Buddhism term
• providing a room for an itinerant priest so that he may meditate for a long period of time - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• looking up (e.g. a word in a dictionary); retrieval (e.g. data); searching for; referring to

noun:

• temporary employment; a temporary job while looking for a better job; work just to kill time - four character idiom

noun:

• a question (an issue) of where responsibility (liability) lies; a question of who is responsible (to blame) - four character idiom

noun:

• fate; destiny (esp. as a mysterious force that binds two people together)
• relationship (e.g. between two people); bond; link; connection
• family ties; affinity
• opportunity; chance (to meet someone and start a relationship) ［えん］
• pratyaya (indirect conditions, as opposed to direct causes) ［えん］ - Buddhism term ➜ 因
• narrow open-air veranda ［えん］ - also written as 椽

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to get up; to rise; to blaze up (fire)
• to wake up; to be awake; to stay awake
• to occur (usu. of unfavourable incidents); to happen; to take place

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to get used to; to grow accustomed to; to become familiar with - esp. 慣れる
• to become skilled in; to become experienced at - esp. 慣れる
• to become tame; to become domesticated - esp. 馴れる

ichidan verb / auxiliary verb:

• to get used to doing - after the -masu stem of a verb

adverb / ~する noun:

• straight; quickly; directly; all of a sudden - スーッと and すうっと are more emphatic - onomatopoeia
• quietly; gently; softly - onomatopoeia

~する noun:

• to feel refreshed; to feel satisfied

noun / ~する noun:

• parting in tears; tearful parting; coming to grief; having to take a different tack; going separate ways

noun:

• tapir (Tapirus spp.)
• mo; mythological Chinese chimera similar to a tapir, said to devour bad dreams

expression:

• inability to discern the truth due to conflicting testimony (name derived the Akutagawa Ryūnosuke story "In A Grove")

noun / ~する noun:

• raising (a question); bringing up (a problem); instituting (a lawsuit); filing (a claim); submitting (a case)
• lifting up - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• responding to a call-up for military service; answering a call-up - Military term

noun / ~する noun:

• cancelling a meeting; adjournment of a meeting (due to lack of attendance)

noun:

• congratulations on entering a school; gift to someone entering a school

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to wrap up; to tuck in; to pack; to do up; to cover with; to dress in

godan ~む verb:

• to conceal; to hide; to be engulfed in; to be enveloped by

noun:

• one's line of sight; one's gaze; one's eyes (looking); glance; gaze; look

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to lean (to one side); to incline
• to be unbalanced (e.g. diet); to be unduly weighted towards; to be concentrated on
• to be partial; to be biased; to be prejudiced

noun:

• entrance fee; initiation fee; registration fee; present to a teacher
• gift of dried meat from a new vassal or pupil - archaism

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to boil up; to come to the boil; to seethe - esp. 沸き上がる
• to arise; to break out
• to get excited; to be in uproar