noun:

• leading a group of people; someone who leads others into a song by singing the leading notes ➜ 音頭を取る【おんどをとる】
• workmen's songs; marching songs

~する noun:

• to keep; to put aside (for somebody); to keep possession (usu. the ball in sports); to hold one's service (tennis)

noun:

• quipu; quippu

noun:

• the right to sunshine; in zoning, the right to have sunlight falling on one's building not be obstructed by new buildings

noun:

• roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides); mawworm; intestinal worm
• (metaphor for) location of one's feelings or sentiments ➜ 腹の虫が治まらない【はらのむしがおさまらない】
• (metaphor for) empty stomach; feeling of hunger ➜ 腹の虫が鳴る【はらのむしがなる】

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• not letting oneself puffed up by one's success; maintaining a serene state of mind when one has achieved a great success - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• Nanking Incident (targeting of Nanking's foreign properties and residents by Kuomintang troops in March, 1927)
• Rape of Nanking (1937); Nanking Massacre ➜ 南京大虐殺

expression:

• of soup and love, the first is the best; one's first spouse tends to be better than any subsequent spouse - proverb

noun:

• Dragon's beard candy; Chinese cotton candy; Chinese pastry, similar to Turkish pishmaniye or Persian pashmak (thin pastry threads outside, filling inside) - Food term ➜ 竜の髭

expression / ichidan verb:

• to greet in a friendly manner; to treat someone as if they were a guest in one's own home

noun:

• head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); proprietress; landlord; landlady; master (of a servant) - abbreviation
• entertaining someone as one's guest - also written as 饗 - archaism ➜ 饗設け

expression:

• till; to; over (a period); through (e.g. Monday through Thursday); about (approx. time or place); on
• concerning (an area of expertise)
• swearing by (one's sword, God, etc.)

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to catch (a person's words); to make out; to follow; to understand
• to find out by asking

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to receive permission ➜ 御免を蒙る
• to leave (with someone's permission); to retire
• to refuse; to beg off doing

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be at one's wits' end; to be cornered; to be packed to the hilt [literal] ➜ 切羽【せっぱ】

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to miss one's footing
• to be off the right track; to be on the wrong path

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to twist; to twirl
• to fiddle around with; to play with; to rewrite
• to rack one's brains

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to carry (a child) on one's back; to piggyback
• to take on (a job, responsibility, etc.) - archaism

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to eat (fodder, grass, etc.)
• to receive (a salary); to receive a stipend from one's lord

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to burst into flames
• to fire (of a gun)
• to fan a fire with one's breath

noun:

• Kitti's hog-nosed bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai); bumblebee bat; Old World hog-nosed bat

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to shove to one side; to look at out of the corner of one's eyes

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to make out with; to make cozy with (cosy)
• to do at one's own discretion

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to be infatuated (with); to be hooked (on); to lose one's heart (on) - as 〜にうつつ...

noun:

• times and situations; the course of events of the times; a turn of Fortune's wheel - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to leave something to someone's imagination (e.g. I'll leave that to your imagination)