expression / noun:

• seasonal greeting; conventional opening phrase in a letter, appropriate to the season

noun:

• blacktip tope (Hypogaleus hyugaensis, a hound shark found in the Indo-West Pacific)

noun:

• purifying salt (thrown in the sumo ring before a bout, after funerals, etc.) ➜ 清めの塩

noun:

• shower stool with a u-shaped hole in the middle

noun:

• sastrugi; parallel wave-like ridges formed on a snow surface by the wind

noun:

• nutmeg (soccer); hitting a ball through the legs (e.g. in tennis) - slang - Sports term

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to ascertain; to make sure of; to determine; to probe; to get to the bottom (of something)

noun:

• phoenix (bird of Egyptian mythology) - From Latin
• phoenix (any palm tree of genus Phoenix, incl. the date palm)

ichidan verb / transitive:

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

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to force someone to clamp with their teeth; to force into someone's mouth (e.g. a gag) ➜ 猿ぐつわをかます【さるぐつわをかます】
• to wedge into a space
• to inflict (a blow); to deal (a hit) ➜ 一発かます【いっぱつかます】
• to pull (a joke); to say or do (something stupid); to try (a bluff)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to force someone to clamp with their teeth; to force into someone's mouth (e.g. a gag)
• to wedge into a space
• to inflict (a blow); to deal (a hit)
• to pull (a joke); to say or do (something stupid); to try (a bluff)

noun:

• being carried away by a current
• drowning in a river; person who drowned in a river
• cancellation; standing up; breaking a promise

noun:

• business; task; errand; engagement
• use; purpose

suffix noun:

• for the use of ...; used for ...; made for ...

noun:

• call of nature; excretion ➜ 用を足す

noun:

• Home Ministry; Department of the Interior (US, etc.); Home Office (UK); Ministry of Home Affairs (Japan, pre-1947)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to speak frankly; to speak unreservedly; to open up to each other; to talk candidly; to speak by laying everything on the table; to talk straight from the gut; to have a heart-to-heart talk

noun:

• the head; the foremost; beginning; the very front

expression:

• the most; the best; peerless; the greatest; first-rate

expression / ichidan verb:

• to feel relieved; to feel happy after having been relieved of a responsibility; to be relieved from a duty

noun:

• the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow - archaism - Astronomy term ➜ 北斗七星

noun:

• person in the same business; the profession; the trade

noun:

• the masses; the lower classes; the common people

noun:

• on the street; around town; the world; the public

noun:

• the whole nation; all the people in the land - four character idiom

noun:

• the average Joe; the man in the street

noun:

• mountain mass; small mountain range; group of mountains that are not part of a large mountain range - obscure term ➜ 山塊