expression:

• wasting one's efforts; rendering one's efforts futile - idiom

noun:

• one's own thought; one's own idea - humble language

noun:

• one's own garden; one's own cultivated land

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to do as one wishes; to act as one wills

expression / noun:

• everywhere; everywhere one goes; wherever one goes

noun / ~する noun:

• crowning a boy with a traditional cap for the first time at a coming-of-age ceremony - archaism ➜ 元服【げんぶく】・初冠【ういこうぶり】

noun:

• person in charge of crowning the boy at a coming-of-age ceremony - archaism

noun:

• compound ideograph formation (one of the six kanji classifications); making kanji up of meaningful parts (e.g. "mountain pass" is up + down + mountain) ➜ 会意文字

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hold an additional item in one's hand
• to use an additional hand to hold

noun:

• five fruits (peach, Japanese plum, apricot, jujube, Japanese chestnut)
• five types of effect in cause-and-effect relationships ［五果］ - Buddhism term
• five effects of ignorance and formations on one's current life ［五果］ - Buddhism term

adjectival noun / ~の noun / noun:

• worst Antonym: 最良

adjectival noun / interjection:

• horrible; horrid; awful; terrible - colloquialism

adverb:

• in the worst case; if worst comes to worst - colloquialism

noun:

• capital (of a column) - Architecture term
• stigma; top part of the pistil in a flower - Biology term

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to stab; to thrust (into)
• to plant (in the ground); to stick upright

adverb:

• far off; in the distance; long ago; far; by far; far and away

adverb:

• for a moment; even as a joke; even in the slightest degree

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to linger (faint light of twilight); to remain lit in the lingering twilight ➜ 明け残る

godan ~る verb:

• to lurk; to hover in the background
• to be coiled up; to stretch tortuously

noun:

• large stone; boulder
• large group of stones (in the game of go)

expression:

• at any rate; in any case; at the very least; if nothing else

noun:

• murder case in which the victim is chopped into pieces; mutilation murder case

noun:

• development of a text ➜ 起承転結
• the second line in a four-line Chinese poem

expression / ichidan verb:

• to avoid meeting someone's gaze; to not look someone in the eyes

prefix noun:

• some (at the start of a number in place of a digit)

noun:

• Chongqing government; Kuomintang government based in Chongqing during the Second Sino-Japanese War

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to draw; to paint; to sketch ➜ 書く
• to depict; to describe ［えがく］
• to picture in one's mind; to imagine
• to form a certain shape (e.g. path of an action, appearance of an object, etc.)

noun:

• fight; scuffle
• walking about; walking around
• conducting oneself
• stroll (in noh, an action piece involving circling the stage)