noun:

• thick silk cloth; coarse silk cloth; silk cloth made from coarse fibers (futoito, tamaito or noshiito) ➜ 太糸・玉糸・熨斗糸

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to jump down; to jump off; to jump from; to jump out of

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to use one's own money; to pay for from one's own pocket

noun:

• cleaning dust etc. from rooms; housecleaning
• (the traditional Japanese end-of-the-year, 13th December) big house cleaning; spring cleaning (only not in spring) ➜ 煤掃き

noun:

• dried, smoked pilchard; shavings from dried, smoked pilchard

noun:

• circle (sometimes used for zero) ➜ 丸【まる】
• 'correct' (when marking) ➜ 二重丸【にじゅうまる】
• symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position, or because of censorship) ➜ 〇〇【まるまる】
• period; full stop ➜ 句点
• maru mark; semivoiced sound; p-sound ➜ 半濁点

godan ~る verb:

• to hesitate; to hold back; to balk; to falter
• to be reluctant; to be unwilling; to begrudge
• to have loose painful bowel movement; to suffer from tenesmus

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to come unstuck from; to peel off; to come off

godan ~く verb:

• to catch fire; to provoke; to catch fire from; to be ignited

noun:

• solar pond (salty pond in which energy from solar energy accumulates in the lower layers, due to lack of convection)

noun:

• red Fuji; when Mt Fuji appears red because of the sun's rays (esp. in the early morning from late summer to early autumn)

noun:

• kōji; malted rice; malt; malt-like material from growing mold on rice, barley, beans, etc. (used as a starter to make sake, miso, soy sauce, etc.)

expression / noun:

• completely empty (of a residence, etc.); vacant; deserted ➜ 蛻【もぬけ】
• body from which the soul has left; corpse
• shed skin (of a snake, insect, etc.) - orig. meaning

expression:

• I have to do something; that's something I have to do - dial. phrase popularized by Miyazaki mayor Hideo Higashikokubaru in 2007 ➜ どうにかして

expression:

• a day in life is better than a thousand days in the afterlife; better one day in this world than a thousand in the next - proverb

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to roll up; to hoist; to heave up
• to take away; to rip off (e.g. money from someone)
• to blow up (dust)

noun:

• Japanese bondage torture (hands and feet are behind the victim's back, and they are hanged from the ceiling with a rock on their back)

expression / godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to get worse; to deteriorate; to go from bad to worse; to become worse

noun / ~の noun:

• flowers in full bloom; time of year in which flowers are in full bloom
• the age at which someone (esp. a woman) is at the peak of their beauty
• booming or peaking (in popularity)

noun:

• each of the three being different from the other two; each of the three having his (her) own way - four character idiom

noun:

• open three-of-a-kind (meld); three-of-a-kind made with a tile called from another player - Mahjong term ➜ 刻子

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• each of the three being different from the other two; each of the three having his (her) own way

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to buy (of a government, public agency, etc. from a private citizen); to purchase
• to buy up (all of something)

noun:

• diver's exposure suit; body suits, wet suits, and dry suits; suit which protects divers from exposure and abrasion

noun:

• open three-of-a-kind (meld); three-of-a-kind made with a tile called from another player - Mahjong term ➜ 刻子・明刻子