noun / suffix noun:

• (mountain) pass; ridge; peak

noun:

• peak (e.g. of summer); worst (e.g. of an illness); crisis; critical point; most difficult part

noun:

• petitioning (an administration) for redress; suing civilly to seek redress (for a court's action); lodging an appeal - Law term

expression:

• give him an inch and he'll take an ell; give him an inch and he'll take a yard - proverb

noun:

• (being a) fan of an entire music group (esp. idol group); not having a favorite member of a group - slang ➜ 推し【おし】・単推し

noun or verb acting prenominally / ~する noun:

• resident in Japan (of a foreigner); situated in Japan (e.g. of an embassy)

noun:

• Korean living in Japan - abbreviation - sensitive ➜ 在日韓国人・在日朝鮮人

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to shine ➜ 射す
• to be visible
• to be tinged with
• to rise (of water levels); to flow in
• to be felt (i.e. as an emotion); to come over one ➜ 気が差す・魔が差す

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to hold up (an umbrella, etc.); to put up; to raise
• to extend one's arm straight ahead (in dance) ➜ 指す
• to insert; to put in ➜ 挿す
• to wear (a sword) in one's belt; to wear at one's side; to carry under one's arm ➜ 挿す
• to insert one's arm under an opponent's arm - Sumo term
• to pole (a boat) ➜ 刺す
• to pour; to add (liquid); to serve (drinks) ➜ 注す
• to put on (lipstick, etc.); to apply; to colour; to dye
• to light (a fire); to burn
• to shut; to close; to lock; to fasten ➜ 鎖す【さす】

suffix / godan ~す verb:

• to stop in the midst of; to leave undone - after the -masu stem of a verb ➜ 止す【さす】

noun:

• (of a woman) divorcing and moving back in with her parents - sensitive
• (of an employee) leaving a position only to return to it later
• (of a ship) leaving from and returning to the same port

expression / noun:

• red string of fate; in Chinese-Japanese folklore, fated lovers were said to be joined by an unseen red string, tied around one little finger of each

noun:

• humble samurai who served as a body guard on foot ➜ 徒侍
• bodyguards in service of the shogun who would walk ahead of him on an outing (Edo period) ➜ 徒士組【かちぐみ】

godan ~す verb:

• to whip an egg; to scramble (e.g. an egg)

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to have an accident; to meet with an accident

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to generate an event; to trigger an event - IT term

noun:

• performance; take; going before an audience or on-air
• game; season; crucial moment
• penetrative vaginal sex (with a prostitute); unsimulated sex (in an adult movie)

noun / ~する noun:

• temporary transfer (of an employee); secondment; relocation; loan
• proceeding to; leaving for ➜ 出向く

noun / ~する noun:

• descent; fall; drop; (atmospheric) depression
• passing down (of an order, decree, etc.)

adjectival noun / noun / ~の noun:

• an infinite variety of; multifarious; being extremely varied and wide-ranging - four character idiom

noun:

• set of dishes served on an individual tray for entertaining guests; banquet ➜ 懐石料理

noun / ~する noun:

• taking care of oneself (esp. used as an epistolary imperative)
• self-love

noun / ~する noun:

• shapeshifting (of an animal or spirit); goblin; ghost; apparition; bugbear
• incarnation ➜ 権化
• transformation

adjectival noun / noun:

• becoming an adult or full-fledged member of (a) society ➜ 一人前

expression / adjective:

• overly concerned with domestic affairs; having an air of domesticity

noun:

• practice of eating sushi or sashimi off an unclad woman's body

noun:

• secrets; mysteries; secret formula; essence; esoterica (of an art, martial arts, etc.) - four character idiom

noun:

• Reiyukai (Buddhist sect founded in 1919 as an offshoot of Nichiren Buddhism)

prefix:

• indicates the target of an activity; -ee (e.g. employee, examinee, trustee)