noun:

• Elatostema umbellatum var. majus (variety of plant related to the nettles)

noun:

• appointed official sent to administer a certain region (in the Ryukyu Kingdom)

noun:

• hostess bar where patrons are allowed to touch the hostesses' breasts - slang - vulgar - abbreviation ➜ おっぱいパブ

noun:

• being unable to make up one's mind; sitting on the fence

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to taste and compare several dishes (or foods) of the same type

noun:

• Trapa incisa (species of plant closely related to the water caltrop)

noun:

• farmland given to nobles of the fifth rank or above (ritsuryo system)

expression:

• being ready to drink sake by the keg; drinking like a fish

noun:

• swatting; deceiving the police into sending armed officers to a particular address

noun:

• regulation baseball (as opposed to the variety played with a rubber ball) ➜ 軟式野球

noun:

• any horsehair worm of class Gordioidea; gordian worm (of class Gordioidea); hair worm (of class Gordioidea) ➜ 線形虫
• wireworm (click beetle larva) ➜ 米搗虫

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be submerged; to be soaked
• to be pickled; to be well seasoned - esp. 漬かる
• to be totally immersed (in a condition, e.g. laziness)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be seen; to be in sight
• to be able to see
• to see - honorific language
• to be worth watching; to be worth seeing

godan ~る verb:

• to become decrepit; to be in one's dotage; to become dull; to lose one's astuteness; to lose one's touch; to become senile; to lose one's edge; to go downhill

noun:

• foreign country; foreign land; strange land; far-off land - 異郷 is often domestic; 異境 is often foreign

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to bring near; to bring close; to let go near
• to associate with; to bring (people) together; to let come near (of a person)

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to put; to place
• to leave (behind)
• to establish (an organization, a facility, a position, etc.); to set up
• to appoint (someone to a certain position); to hire; to employ
• to place (one's trust, one's faith, etc); to bear (in mind etc)
• to put down a tool (e.g. a pen) hence stopping what one is doing with that tool
• to take in (boarders, etc.); to provide lodging in one's house
• to separate spatially or temporally

godan ~く verb / auxiliary verb:

• to do something in advance - after the -te form of a verb - usually written using kana alone
• to leave something in a certain state; to keep something in a certain state - after the -te form of a verb - usually written using kana alone

adverb / ~と adverb:

• clearly; plainly; distinctly - onomatopoeia

~する noun:

• to be clear; to be definite; to be certain; to be exact; to become clear; to clear up - often as はっきりした

~する noun / adverb / ~と adverb:

• to be hairy (person); to be thickly bearded - onomatopoeia
• to be dense (vegetation); to be thick - onomatopoeia
• to be slow (person); to be dull - onomatopoeia

expression:

• the soft may prove more durable than the hard; willow trees don't break under the weight of snow [literal] - proverb

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be choked up; to be crushed (emotionally); to be overcome (with emotion); to be shocked; to be horrified

noun:

• root (of a plant)
• root (of a tooth, hair, etc.); center (of a pimple, etc.)
• root (of all evil, etc.); source; origin; cause; basis
• one's true nature
• (fishing) reef

noun:

• method of dyeing in which a color repeatedly goes from dense to diffuse, diffuse to dense - imported from western China and used in Buddhist pictures, temple ornaments, etc., during the Nara and Heian periods

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to develop a rash or inflammation (e.g. in response to a skin irritant); to react to (something)
• to be strongly influenced (usu. negative or critical nuance)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make someone understand their fate; to reason with; to persuade; to deliver an imperial edict (which cannot be refused) [literal] - archaism