noun:

• decorative paper envelope for giving New Year's gifts (usu. money given to children) and congratulatory gifts ➜ お年玉【おとしだま】

noun:

• carrying (on one's shoulder); bearing; shouldering; taking responsibility for
• bucket carried on either end of a pole - abbreviation ➜ 担い桶

noun:

• children's lunch box of cooked rice and a Western-style side dish (popular late Meiji and Taisho periods)

noun:

• wait to turn either of two pairs into a pung to finish one's hand - Mahjong term

expression / adjective:

• unable to clear away one's ill feeling; not able to do anything (about...)

noun:

• menko; children's game in which thick circular or rectangular cards are slapped down on the ground to overturn other cards - Ōsaka dialect ➜ めんこ

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to decide; to choose; to determine; to make up one's mind; to resolve; to set one's heart on; to settle; to arrange; to set; to appoint; to fix
• to clinch (a victory); to decide (the outcome of a match)
• to persist in doing; to go through with
• to always do; to have made a habit of - as 決めている
• to take for granted; to assume
• to dress up; to dress to kill; to dress to the nines
• to carry out successfully (a move in sports, a pose in dance, etc.); to succeed in doing
• to immobilize with a double-arm lock (in sumo, judo, etc.) - Martial Arts, Sumo term
• to eat or drink something; to take illegal drugs

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to overcome (opposition); to push past; to force one's way
• to press and cut

noun:

• tip of one's hand
• cheap trick; superficial wit; superficial cleverness

~の noun:

• lukewarm; cheap; perfunctory; makeshift; shortsighted

noun:

• tooth hardening toy (for infants); teether; teething ring
• tooth hardening meal; New Year's feast

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to understand each other well; to call forth a response in another's heart; to relate to

noun:

• bringing one's child to the local park to play for the first time

expression:

• after the decimal point; below the decimal

expression / ~の noun:

• of no account; beneath one's notice

noun / adjectival noun / adverb:

• one's heart is filled with even deeper emotion; feeling the emotion all the more deeply - four character idiom

noun:

• small country with a small population (The Chinese philosopher Lao-tze's ideal of a state) - four character idiom

expression:

• Don't be absurd; That's out of the question; Nonsense; Don't mention it

noun:

• tiger's tail
• gooseneck loosestrife (species of flowering plant, Lysimachia clethroides) ➜ 岡虎の尾
• Asplenium incisum (species of spleenwort) ➜ 虎の尾羊歯

noun / ~する noun:

• total coverage; giving total coverage to the key figure(s) of a TV or film documentary ➜ 密着

noun:

• changing one's attitude or conduct and making a new start; turning over a new leaf

noun:

• flowers that bloom in the heavens; paper flowers scattered before the Buddha's image - Buddhism term

expression / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• being painfully-true (e.g. reprimand); making one's ears burn; striking home (e.g. remark) ➜ 耳が痛い

noun:

• division of the Buddha's 50-year teachings into five periods (theory of the Tendai sect) - Buddhism term ➜ 五時八教

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to use one's influence; to pull strings; to take measures; to make the necessary preparations

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be relieved of a worry; to get a load off one's chest

noun:

• draft of a magazine's content (usu. a table showing the allocation of each page)