expression / godan ~る verb:

• to break up and start anew; to break out of one's shell; to make a fresh start; to go outside oneself - idiom

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to throw something to each other; to pass something back and forth; to bandy something around
• to take part in a pitching duel - Baseball term

noun:

• booklet constituting an informal living will (containing wishes regarding one's hospitalization or funeral, and perhaps one's life story, messages to loved ones, etc.) - From English "ending note"

noun / adjectival noun:

• unfinished; unripe; incomplete

noun:

• unfermented narezushi; unfermented brine-pickled sushi ➜ 熟れ鮨
• noh mask with slightly protruding horns and frizzy hair (representing a woman on her way to becoming a hannya) ➜ 般若

adverb / pronoun:

• here and there; all around; everywhere; throughout; all over

~する noun:

• to get things in the wrong order (back to front); to become muddled up ［あちこち・あちらこちら・あっちこっち・アチコチ］

noun:

• fleeing in all directions; (in Japanese history, a reference to) farmers who abandoned their fields and fled to the cities or other districts to evade onerous taxes

noun:

• dilapidated house; tumbledown house; hovel; miserable shack
• my house; my home - humble language
• small resting place comprising four pillars and a roof (with no walls)

adverb / ~と adverb:

• sound of something striking repeatedly (e.g. wooden clappers) - onomatopoeia
• something small hopping repeatedly; touching lightly and repeatedly - onomatopoeia

noun:

• punctuation marks such as the dakuten
• Chonchon; South American mythical bird - From

noun:

• black surgeonfish (Acanthurus gahhm, species of tang endemic to the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden in the western Indian Ocean)

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to screw in
• to thrust into; to push into; to shove into
• to protest (and seek rectification); to complain

noun:

• six main gagaku modes (equivalent to A Dorian, B Dorian, E Dorian, D Mixolydian, E Mixolydian and G Mixolydian) ➜ 左方唐楽

noun:

• file wrapper for a patent; correspondence about the status of a patent between the inventor and the patent office

ichidan verb:

• (for a fruit) to go bad and lose its shape from being overripe or damaged
• to feel listless; to be dull; to be lazy; to look bored

noun:

• between one's eyes; before one's eyes; space where one's left and right eyesight meet

noun:

• whistling through one's fingers; whistle made by sticking one's fingers in one's mouth and blowing

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to stick to; to cling to; to adhere to
• to become intimate (of a man and woman); to get close; to get married - colloquialism

noun:

• being stuck between a rock and a hard place; being in a dilemma; being torn between conflicting demands

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to sway to and fro; to drift about; to flutter; to flicker
• to be fickle; to be irresolute; to vacillate; to waver

noun:

• through ticket (e.g. rail, air)
• ticket good for multiple performances (e.g. both matinee and evening shows); all-day ticket; season ticket ➜ 通し券

expression:

• the difference between truth and fiction in art being very subtle; Art abides in a realm that is neither truth nor fiction - four character idiom

noun:

• Zebrasoma (genus of 7 species of marine tang in the family Acanthuridae with pointed snouts and forward facing spines at the base of the tail)

noun:

• Zebrasoma (genus of 7 species of marine tang in the family Acanthuridae with pointed snouts and forward facing spines at the base of the tail) ➜ ヒレナガハギ属【ヒレナガハギぞく】

expression / adverb:

• in every nook and corner; from A to Z; from head to toe; from cover to cover

noun:

• radio broadcast announcing acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration and the end of the war (recording of Hirohito; broadcast Aug. 15, 1945) ➜ ポツダム宣言

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• putting one's heart and soul into; putting one's all into

noun:

• intimacy; familiarity - archaism ➜ 昵懇【じっこん】