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

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to run at full speed; to run and run
• to try one's hardest

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to warm (e.g. one's hands over a fire); to dry
• to toast; to grill; to broil; to roast; to scorch

noun:

• family registry (of the district); original of one's family register; archive of family registers

noun:

• American shrew mole (Neurotrichus gibbsii); Gibb's shrew mole; least shrew mole

expression:

• nothing costs as much as what is given to us; there's no such thing as a free lunch - proverb

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun / adjectival noun:

• unsteadily (e.g. on one's feet); shakily; staggering; reeling; tottering; dizzily - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• wandering; wavering; aimlessly; without knowing what one is doing; having no goal in mind - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• omitting crucial steps; cutting corners; skimping
• intentional negligence
• tenuki; taking the initiative by ignoring the opponent's last move and playing somewhere else (in go)

noun:

• continued alertness; unrelaxed alertness; remaining on one's guard; being prepared for a counterstroke
• follow-through (e.g. in archery)
• lingering affection; attachment; regret; regrets; reluctance - orig. meaning

expression / noun:

• person of high standing facing no opposition and with a warped view of reality
• The Emperor's New Clothes (tale by Hans Christian Andersen) - orig. meaning

noun:

• cloud ear mushroom (Auricularia auricula-judae); wood ear mushroom; Jew's ear mushroom

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to be upset; to be flurried; to be frightened (out of one's wits)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to let leak; to reveal
• to wet one's pants
• to give utterance; to vent; to express
• to omit; to leave out

noun / ~の noun:

• veteran; (someone) schooled by adversity in many battles; (someone) rich in life's experience gained through much adversity - four character idiom

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to peep (through); to peek; to examine (esp. covertly)
• to await (one's chance)
• to guess; to infer; to gather; to surmise - usu. used passively

noun:

• bed hair; hair disarranged during sleep
• habit of moving around in one's sleep; sleeping habit

expression / ichidan verb:

• to cut off a finger (as an act of apology) ➜ 指詰め
• to catch one's finger (in a door, etc.) - Kansai dialect

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to change; to alter
• to run counter to; to go against; to break (one's word)
• to make a mistake (in); to err

expression:

• so many men, so many ways; to each one's own; it takes all sorts to make a world - four character idiom