noun:

• shutting oneself in (one's room, etc.)
• barricading oneself in (a fort, etc.) while being besieged; holing up (in a building)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to become muddy; to become cloudy; to get impure (of a liquid, gas, etc.)
• to become dull (of a sound, color, etc.); to become hoarse
• to become impure (of a heart, society, etc.); to be corrupted; to be polluted
• to become voiced; to add voiced consonant marks ➜ 濁り【にごり】

noun:

• court lady; lady-in-waiting (Heian period)
• separate room in a palace (esp. for a lady) (Heian period) ➜ 曹司
• room for a very low class prostitute
• very low class prostitute ➜ 局女郎

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)

expression:

• going well together; good combination - idiom

noun:

• family crest featuring a ring of bamboo with a sparrow in the middle
• design featuring bamboo and sparrows (motif in Japanese painting)

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to decide to
• to pretend that - after the past tense form of a verb
• to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to - as 〜ことにしている

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to chop off; to snip off; to cut off (e.g. a conversation)
• to fire (a person)

expression / godan -いく／-ゆく verb (spec.):

• to go on a trip; to go out to play; to go and visit (a friend) ➜ 遊びに来る

noun / ~する noun:

• happy family circle; sitting in a family circle and enjoying conversation; harmony in a family - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• being enraged (indignant, impatient); gnashing the teeth and clenching the arms on the breast (in anger or regret) - four character idiom

noun:

• bronze wind bells hanging from eaves of temple towers or halls (esp. four corners) - archaism
• wind bell; wind chimes - archaism

expression:

• man proposes, God disposes; man does what man can do then awaits the verdict of heaven (or fate) [literal] - proverb

noun:

• recreational diving; no decompression stop diving; diving at depths which do not exceed 40 meters or 130 feet

godan ~す verb:

• to lose (a chance); to miss (a chance) ➜ 逸する
• to overlook; to omit; to forget
• to deviate; to depart from (the norm, etc.)

particle:

• et cetera; etc.; and the like; and so forth
• or something - after an approximate quote or vague suggestion
• the likes of - lessening the significance or value of the previous word

adverb:

• anyhow; at any rate; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case; at least

noun:

• watch (timepiece)

noun / ~する noun:

• watch (turn to watch or guard something); watching

noun:

• watch cap - abbreviation ➜ ワッチキャップ

noun:

• amateur work (in art); work done in carefree mood without regard to time or expenses - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• visiting Tang China (esp. of an envoy, monk, or exchange student); entering Tang China

noun:

• thin slice of meat or fish - Food term
• briefly salt-pickled fish slice - archaism - Food term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to add to one's circle of friends (or colleagues, etc.); to take in; to accept

noun:

• shrine receiving offerings from the provincial government (pre-Meiji) or the national treasury (post-Meiji) - obsolete term

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to dislocate one's back ➜ 腰抜かす
• to be unable to stand up due to fear or surprise

noun:

• big four winds; winning hand containing four kongs or pungs of winds - Mahjong term - From Chinese

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to hold or operate with one's hands; to handle
• to find difficult to manage ➜ 持て余す