noun:

• lowering; sinking; bringing down; letting down Antonym: 上げ
• depreciation; price fall
• punch line (of a rakugo story) ➜ 落語
• sword strap - abbreviation - archaism ➜ 下げ緒

noun:

• grain (1-7000 of a pound, approx. 64.80 mg)
• grain (wheat, etc.) ➜ グレーンウイスキー

noun:

• Heian-period student of government administration - archaism
• Buddhist scholar; researcher at a Buddhist temple; person studying Buddhism - archaism
• learning; scholarship - archaism

noun:

• side house (to the east, west, or north of a main residence; home to women, children and servants) ➜ 寝殿造

noun:

• name plate on the front of a train, bus, etc.; number plate; rollsign; roll sign - From English "head mark"

noun:

• initial response (e.g. to a crisis); action in the earliest stages
• initial shock (of an earthquake); preliminary tremor

expression / noun:

• age at which even the slightest things seem funny (esp. said of a girl in the late teens)

noun:

• sinking of the South Korean navy ship Cheonan (allegedly by a North Korean torpedo; Mar. 26, 2010)

noun:

• polished gyaru; girl or young woman adhering to a toned down version of the gyaru fashion trend - colloquialism ➜ ギャル

noun:

• feeble anger (that one cannot act on because one is powerless); the clenching teeth of a dried sardine [literal] - idiom

noun:

• going out (e.g. of a fire); dying out
• fizzling out; falling through; coming to nothing

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to suffer a blast or indirect blow; to be subject to the surplus force of an impetus

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to outwit; to get the better of; to overcome a superior opponent and leave him speechless

godan ~む verb:

• to be broad-minded enough to associate with various types of people; to possess a capacious mind

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to withdraw from (a deal); to wash one's hands of
• to lead by the hand

noun:

• stepping out of the ring while carrying the opponent over the edge, not considered as a loss - Sumo term

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to make a slip of the tongue; to say something inadvertently; to blurt out without thinking

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make a slip of the tongue; to say something inadvertently; to blurt out without thinking

godan ~う verb / transitive / intransitive verb:

• to sing

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to sing (one's praises in a poem, etc.); to compose a poem; to recite a poem - esp. 歌う, 詠う

noun:

• river surface; surface of a river

noun:

• variant character; variant form of a character (esp. kanji) - e.g. 渕 as variant of 淵

noun:

• Chinese character; unsimplified (original form of) a Chinese character

noun:

• mountain stream; the water of a mountain stream

noun:

• contract month; delivery month (of a futures contract)

noun:

• sliding central strip (of a slide rule); slide strip ➜ 計算尺