godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to tread (a nail) into the sole of one's foot; to tread through (the floor)

adverb:

• just when (one is about to ...); just as; the very moment when; on the point of

noun:

• death with dignity; natural death (as opposed to extending one's life unnaturally with life support)

godan ~う verb:

• to love one another; to be affectionate towards each other
• to have sex; to make love

expression:

• A cornered rat will bite the cat; One who is cornered will fight like a devil - four character idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to spread one's roots (of a tree, etc.); to take root (of an ideology, etc.)

expression:

• thinking the sun shines out of someone's eyes; being the apple of one's eye - idiom

noun:

• Feast of the Seven Herbs of Health (7th of January); one of the 5 seasonal festivals ➜ 五節句

expression:

• one of the 72 climates (from the 11th of the second lunar month until the 15th) ➜ 七十二候

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to speak one's mind; to be frank; to tell the truth; to be brutally honest

noun:

• 100 poems by 100 famous poets; (playing) cards of one hundred famous poems - four character idiom

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to be obvious; to be obviously correct; to point to one's palm [literal] - idiom

noun:

• the Six Forms of Avalokitesvara (one for each of the six realms) ➜ 六道

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to establish a school of; to make a home of one's own

noun:

• one kanji in the name of a nobleperson (with a multiple-kanji name) ➜ 偏諱を賜う

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to wait for one's chance; to wait for an opportunity

expression / ichidan verb:

• to glance at; to look at; to scan; to run one's eyes over

expression / noun:

• losing one's reason due to love; lack of judgment due to love

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to place one's arm around each other's shoulders; to join shoulders ➜ 組む

noun:

• going round in circles; game of cat and mouse; pointless and repetitive back-and-forth - idiom
• itachigokko; Japanese children's game - original meaning

noun / ~の noun:

• middle-age; middle age; midlife; one's middle years

conjunction:

• although I say; although one might say; although called

noun:

• love of (one's) family; family love; familial love

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to harden; to freeze; to strengthen; to solidify; to make (a fist); to tramp down (snow, dirt) ➜ 土を固める【つちをかためる】
• to put together; to collect; to gather; to consolidate
• to make secure; to stabilize; to settle down; to strengthen (belief, resolution, etc.); to establish (evidence) ➜ 身を固める【みをかためる】
• to fortify; to reinforce; to support ➜ 国境を固める【こっきょうをかためる】・嘘で固める【うそでかためる】
• to wear for a specific purpose (armor, coat, etc.) - in the form に身をかためる
• to swear; to resolutely vow; to sincerely promise
• to tie tightly; to fasten
• to hold a bow fully drawn

noun / ~する noun:

• shooting; gunning (down)