expression / godan ~す verb:

• to harm oneself in an attempt to harm someone else; to spit at the heavens and have one's spit land back on one's face [literal] - proverb ➜ 天に唾する

noun:

• cool biz; cool business; business casual (Japanese Ministry of the Environment (MOE) campaign encouraging people to wear lighter clothes and for companies to set their air conditioners to 28C, etc.) ➜ ウォームビズ

noun / ~する noun:

• sinking; foundering; going down; submersion
• getting dead drunk - colloquialism
• having too much fun (esp. in a red-light district, etc.) and missing work or neglecting one's duties - colloquialism
• staying in one place for a long time - backpacker slang - slang

noun:

• statute of limitations; lapse of rights after a period of time; prescription (including acquisitive and extinctive prescription)
• becoming invalid or void after a set time
• ageing; aging - Chemistry term ➜ 時効硬化

noun:

• type of red brocade originally from the ancient Chinese country of Shu and passed on in Japan
• type of brocade made in Sichuan during the Ming period

noun:

• small tatami room
• extension of the main room of a home (in traditional palatial-style architecture) ➜ 放ち出
• room smaller than four and a half tatami (in tea ceremony)

godan ~ぶ verb / intransitive verb:

• to fall down; to fall over
• to turn out; to play out ［ころぶ］ - oft. as どう転んでも
• to abandon Christianity (and convert to Buddhism); to apostatize ［ころぶ］ - in early Japanese Christianity
• to roll; to tumble ➜ ころがる
• (for a geisha) to prostitute (herself) in secret - archaism

noun:

• Buddhist revelation through intuitive discernment; Spiritual awakening cannot be experienced with words and letters; Spiritual enlightenment can be attained only by means of communion of mind with mind (Zen Buddhism) - four character idiom ➜ 不立文字

noun:

• weather wheel; pillar found near graveyards and temples with a wheel attached to it that can be used to communicate with the dead, as well as for divination
• sun pillar ➜ 太陽柱

noun:

• bottle of whiskey (whisky) that a bar customer buys, writes his name on, keeps on a shelf at the bar, and drinks little by little on successive visits - From English "keep bottle"

suffix / godan ~る verb:

• to do ... incessantly; to do ... hard - after the -masu stem of a verb ➜ 降りしきる

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to happen repeatedly; to happen over and over again - orig. meaning - archaism

expression:

• don't try and tell me that!; don't try that shit on me ➜ やがる

noun:

• the sum of the length, width, and height of a package; length + width + height

noun:

• New Year's holiday; period encompassing the close of the old year and the start of the New Year - four character idiom

expression:

• Buddhist revelation through intuitive discernment; Spiritual awakening cannot be experienced with words and letters; Spiritual enlightenment can be attained only by means of communion of mind with mind (Zen Buddhism) - four character idiom

expression:

• once bitten twice shy; to become over cautious from a bad experience; to be bitten by a snake and thus fear a rotten rope (which resembles a snake) [literal]

~する noun / adverb / ~と adverb:

• to be careless; to be inattentive; to be absentminded; to be slow - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun / ~する noun / adverb:

• long and disheveled (e.g. hair) (dishevelled) - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• flaring up (fire); rising (e.g. steam) - onomatopoeia - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• looking up while hitting the ball; keeping one's chin up and not looking at the ball while hitting it - Sports term - From English "head up"

noun / ~する noun:

• reading (the parts one is interested in); reading here and there; skimming through; browsing
• reading word by word; reading only the parts one can understand

noun:

• making a piece of clothing with the same cloth inside and out; making a kimono with lining of the same fabric - four character idiom

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to behave like a spoiled child; to behave like a spoilt child; to fawn on - has a more negative nuance than 甘える ➜ 甘える
• to depend and presume upon another's benevolence ➜ 甘える

noun:

• the "three noes principle" of no drive (indolence), no interest (indifference), and no sense of responsibility (irresponsibility), the term describing the temperament of the Japanese youth of the 1970s - four character idiom

noun:

• speech used by the speaker to convey the social stature between the speaker and listener; language conveying that the speaker is of greater social status than the listener - honorific language

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to prune; to trim; to cut back; to clip
• to reap (a crop) and put into storage; to harvest
• to prune (a manuscript); to cut down

noun:

• telop; television opaque projector; device used to broadcast onscreen text (e.g. subtitles, captions)
• onscreen text and images (e.g. subtitles, captions, scrolling tickers, logos)