expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be visible to; to be seen by; to meet one's eyes

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to talk on and on; to talk one's head off

godan ~く verb / transitive / intransitive verb:

• to think of; to hit upon; to come into one's mind; to be struck with an idea
• to remember; to recall

expression / adjective:

• I'm sorry; (it's) inexcusable; I feel regretful; I feel guilty
• thank you very much (for help, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• rehabilitation; remaking one's life; starting life anew
• rebirth; regeneration; reorganization; rebuilding; recovery; restoration; remaking
• coming back to life; revival; resuscitation

expression / ichidan verb:

• to use up all of one's energy and willpower; to be exhausted (and have no will to go on)

noun:

• redology; study of the novel Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin, one of China's four great classical novels

noun:

• koku; traditional unit of volume, approx. 180.4 litres
• measure of a Japanese-style boat's loading capacity (approx. 278.26 liters)

noun / ~する noun:

• coming down from one's seat and prostrating oneself (to pay obeisance)

noun:

• musicians' box on the left side of the stage
• lower seat ➜ 下座【しもざ】

noun / ~する noun:

• leaving one's own house (e.g. when going to war); departure; setting out - also has an archaic reading of かどいで
• starting a new life; starting life anew

noun:

• ballast; heavy material placed low to improve a vessel's stability
• ballast; crushed stone, gravel, etc. used on a roadbed or railway track

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• fully satisfied; well satisfied (e.g. with an explanation or apology); to have one's heart completely cleared of doubt or grudge

noun:

• deserted house; ruined house

noun / ~する noun:

• abolishing one's own family line in order to join another (under pre-1947 Japanese law); extinct family

noun:

• taste (in goods, etc.)
• manners; etiquette
• modesty; restraint; prudence
• knowledge, experience (of the arts, etc.); accomplishments
• taking care of one's personal appearance

noun:

• nightingale (flooring); method of laying floors to deliberately make a noise (like a nightingale's call) when walked across (security feature)

adverb / ~と adverb:

• choked up (with emotion); heart-wringing; momentary tightening of one's chest caused by powerful feelings (e.g. parting with a loved one) - esp. 胸がきゅん（と）なる - onomatopoeia

noun:

• mythical spirit residing in a person's body that generates a desire to drink (also said to turn water into alcohol) - from 'Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio', 1740

expression:

• having one's good intentions backfire dangerously; causing harm when trying to prevent it; trying to put out a fire while carrying kindling [literal] - idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• bittersweet; having mingled feelings of joy and sorrow; joy and sorrow alternating in one's heart - four character idiom

noun:

• having free time to spare in the midst of busyness; leisure in the intervals of one's work - four character idiom

noun:

• using the Chinese-reading of kanji to represent native Japanese words (irrespective of the kanji's actual meaning) ➜ 万葉仮名

noun:

• room for zazen meditation; room for Buddhist practices ➜ 座禅
• Zen monk's quarters
• head priest (of a Zen temple)

noun:

• moon snail (Naticidae spp.); moon shell
• Marten's pearl oyster (Pinctada fucata martensii); Akoya pearl oyster ➜ 阿古屋貝

expression / adjectival noun:

• crumpled up (of a face; like the face of a Japanese spaniel while it's sneezing) - humorous term

noun:

• (looking) over the top of one's glasses
• (looking) through a pair of glasses