noun / ~する noun:

• make a choice among many; select the good (desirable, necessary, relevant) and discard the rest; decision to adopt or reject - four character idiom

noun:

• wooden plane with a convex base curved both along the direction of cutting and across the blade ➜ 反台鉋

noun:

• decorative gauze strap that hangs from the front left side of the kohimo when tying closed one's hanpi ➜ 小紐

noun:

• azuki bean rice gruel eaten on the day of the winter solstice (to chase away demons that spread contagious diseases)

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• starting in advance; starting first; going first; going ahead ➜ 後発
• starting (in team sports) - Sports term

noun:

• Chinese courtesy name (name formerly given to adult Chinese men, used in place of their given name in formal situations)
• nickname
• section of a village

expression / adjective:

• having no hesitation in stating; having no hesitation in declaring

noun / ~する noun:

• chanting in a loud voice; singing in a loud voice

expression / adjective:

• fresh in one's mind; fresh in one's memory

godan ~す verb:

• to rekindle one's love; to fall in love again (with a person one has previously been in love with) ➜ 直す

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to draw back; to sink; to cave in
• to be set back (e.g. from a road)
• to withdraw (e.g. from the public eye); to retire to (somewhere); to stay indoors; to butt out; to stay out of it

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to divide in two; to divide in half
• to apportion; to divide among; to portion out; to allot; to assign

~と adverb / adverb:

• ding (of a bell); bing; ting; tinkle; ring - esp. チーン, ちーん - onomatopoeia
• honk (i.e. sound of blowing one's nose); snort - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• heating in a microwave; cooking in a microwave; microwaving; nuking - from the sound of the microwave timer; usu. チン - colloquialism ➜ チンする

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to grow hot (e.g. water); to boil
• to get excited (at); to erupt (in applause, cheering, etc.); to be in a ferment; to take place energetically
• to ferment
• to melt (of metal)

noun / ~の noun:

• single ➜ ダブル
• single bed; hotel room with a single bed - abbreviation ➜ シングルベッド
• single-breasted
• single-cuffed
• single width (of cloth; usu. 0.71 meters) - abbreviation ➜ シングル幅
• singles (e.g. in tennis) - abbreviation - Sports term ➜ シングルス

noun:

• single - abbreviation - Baseball term ➜ シングルヒット
• single-figure handicap (in golf) - Sports term ➜ シングルプレーヤー
• shingle

expression / adjectival noun:

• woman's word for the sound of feet thumping across a noh theatre; space of noh theatre based on the reach of the sound of feet thumping - female language

noun:

• sentence
• composition; text; writings
• the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts); academia; literature ➜ 武
• statement - IT term

noun:

• crane (any bird of the family Gruidae, esp. the red-crowned crane, Grus japonensis)

noun:

• weather; look of the sky
• situation; turn of affairs; signs; way the wind is blowing

noun:

• Menshevik; member of the non-Leninist wing of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party - From Russian "Men'sheviki" ➜ ボルシェビキ

noun / ~する noun:

• raising the level (of); boosting; improving; improvement; rising to the next level - From English "level up"

noun:

• the way something ought to be
• the (current) state of things; how things are

expression / ichidan verb:

• to settle (a matter) for the time being; to complete the first stage (of something)

noun:

• provincial governor (under the ritsuryo system, any of a group of officials, esp. the director) ➜ 守【かみ】

noun:

• former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators) ➜ 律令制