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

noun:

• locking the barn door after the horse has bolted; doing something too late; mending the pen after the sheep are lost [literal] - four character idiom

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

expression:

• heaven's vengeance is slow but sure; heaven's net is wide and coarse, yet nothing slips through - four character idiom

noun:

• Zhejiang financial clique; Sekko Zaibatsu; clique from Zhejiang and Jiangsu, influential in Shanghai finance from late 1920s through 1930s ➜ 財閥

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to make good use of one's spare moments
• to weave one's way (e.g. through a crowd)

noun / ~する noun:

• one-ring scam - From English "one call"
• one ring; disconnecting a call after one ring has gone through

noun:

• working the corners; hitting the corners of the plate; pitcher's technique of throwing a ball aiming at the edge of the strike zone - Baseball term - From English "corner work"
• cornering skill (skating, driving, etc.)

noun:

• Chinese coinage produced during the reign of the Yongle Emperor (used in Japan from the Muromachi period to the early Edo period)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to mash; to grind; to pulverize; to pulverise; to deface
• to dissipate (a fortune); to run through; to lose

noun:

• communicating while drinking (usu. with colleagues); communicating through drinking together; boozing with work people - from 飲み and コミュニケーション ➜ ノミュニケーション

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

noun:

• probe into the truth (of the matter); dig into the real facts of the case; get at the root of a matter - four character idiom

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to see through; to see into (someone's heart, mind, etc.); to perceive; to find out; to detect

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to recommend; to endorse (e.g. a candidate); to nominate
• to infer; to conclude; to conjecture; to surmise
• to think something through; to ponder deeply

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be transparent; to be see-through
• to be clear (voice)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to see without obstruction; to see through
• to forecast; to predict; to anticipate

noun:

• the way of the world in our time; the frame of mind of the people nowadays - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make the most of the present; to live for the moment; to seize the day

adverb:

• between the waves; in the waves; on the waves; behind the waves; beneath the waves ➜ 波間【なみま】

noun:

• the (fast) pace at which life passes, and thus the nearness of death; promptitude of the changes of the times - four character idiom

noun:

• land-tax rate during the Edo period (the government took 60 percent of the year's rice crop and the farmers kept 40 percent) - four character idiom

noun:

• Harvest festival held on the night of the tenth day of the tenth month (to send the rice paddy gods back to the mountains after harvest)