expression / godan ~す verb:

• to take out a boat; to put out a boat

noun:

• Four Pillar astrology; originally Chinese method of fortune-telling based on the time, date, month and year of a person's birth - four character idiom

noun:

• golden spadefish (Platax boersii, species of Indo-West Pacific spadefish found in Indonesia, New Guinea, and the Philippines); Boer's batfish

noun:

• the Four Home Provinces (Yamato, Yamashiro, Settsu, and Kawachi); obsolete in 757 when Izumi was established as a separate province from Kawachi - archaism ➜ 五畿内

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to blow strongly and continuously

godan ~る verb:

• to brag endlessly; to boast ceaselessly

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to jostle; to shove and push; to struggle with one another

noun:

• weather of the four seasons (warmth of spring, heat of summer, cool of autumn, and cold of winter)

noun:

• taking a day off by paying one's own fee to one's master (of a prostitute; often in order to see her lover)

noun / suffix:

• stuffing; packing - づめ when a suffix

noun:

• end (esp. the foot of a bridge)
• lowest-ranking guest at tea ceremony
• tea master
• endgame (esp. in shogi or used figuratively)
• sweet eel sauce - abbreviation
• middle-aged woman - archaism

suffix noun:

• appointment to a particular workplace
• using as the sole ground of judgement (judgment)
• continuing; keep doing for period of time - after the -masu stem of a verb

noun:

• near one's knee
• under the protection of (e.g. one's parents); under the care of
• territory of a powerful person ［ひざもと］ ➜ お膝元
• address used after the names of one's parents, grandparents, etc. in a letter ［しっか］

noun:

• flowers and fruit; blossom and fruit
• name and reality ［はなみ］
• form and content; appearance and substance ［かじつ］ - esp. in poetry

noun / ~の noun:

• main body (of troops)
• nucleus; backbone; mainstay; key figure
• center field; centre field; center fielder; centre fielder

noun:

• athlete competing in the middle-number match in a team competition, i.e. second in 3-on-3, third in 5-on-5 (kendo, judo, etc.) ➜ 先鋒【せんぽう】

noun / ~の noun:

• medium-level; mid-level; midsize

noun:

• top and bottom; up and down; high and low; above and below; upper and lower ends

~の noun / noun:

• upside-down ➜ 上下になる

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be below the cost; to sell below cost

expression / godan ~る verb (irregular):

• to be doing; to be in the process of doing

suffix / godan ~る verb (irregular):

• to be doing; to be in the process of doing - with masu stem ➜ つつ

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to break the silence; to break one's silence

expression / ichidan verb:

• to hammer out the details; to work out details ➜ 詰める

noun:

• style of speaking in which the speaker gives the end of each sentence or phrase a higher intonation - From English "up talk"

noun / ~する noun:

• meeting and parting; gathering and scattering; alignment and realignment; alternating alliance and rupture; alternating cooperation and defection - four character idiom

noun:

• discrete set - Mathematics term

noun / ~する noun / adjectival noun:

• dwindling; declining; diminishing; tapering off
• tapering (to a point)

noun:

• ignorance of Jōdo Shinshū practitioners (who only chant the Namu Amida Butsu and have little knowledge of other parts of Buddhism) - derogatory term

expression:

• you cannot excuse a bad deed with a petty act of benevolence; steal a pig and give the feet for alms [literal] - proverb

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to cut down; to prune; to reduce; to cut and hang down; to cut shorter
• to round down (e.g. fraction)

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• noninterference; leaving something to take its own course; giving someone a free hand with something