expression / noun:

• fight from which neither part benefits (but a third part does); a fight between the snipe and the clam (ends in the fisherman's profit) [literal] - idiom ➜ 漁夫の利

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to hold a child in one's arms; to embrace a child
• to provide for a child (children)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be cloying; to be sick and tired with; to be disgusted with; to get up someone's nose
• to stink

~する verb (spec.) / transitive:

• to imitate; to copy; to mimic
• to enter someone as a candidate
• to press (e.g. a weapon against someone's back)
• to compare; to liken

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to imitate; to copy; to mimic ➜ 擬する
• to enter someone as a candidate
• to press (e.g. a weapon against someone's back)
• to compare; to liken

noun:

• native Japanese kanji (esp. used during the Edo period) - archaism ➜ 国字
• made-up kanji; Chinese character of one's own creation
• creating a character with a group of people ➜ 人文字

noun:

• daruma; tumbling doll; round, red-painted good-luck doll in the shape of Bodhidharma, with a blank eye to be completed when a person's wish is granted
• Bodhidharma
• prostitute

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to satisfy (conditions, one's appetite, etc.); to meet (e.g. demands); to fulfill; to gratify
• to fill (e.g. a cup); to pack; to supply

godan ~す verb:

• to run away; to flee; to make off; to take to one's heels; to escape
• to start to run away

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to read (someone's) mind; to read between the lines
• to read (a calibration, a tape, etc.); to read (out)

noun / ~する noun:

• branch family; cadet family; setting up a branch family
• leaving one's employer to set up a new shop with the same name ➜ 暖簾分け

noun:

• separate house - archaism

expression / ichidan verb:

• to take a stab at arousing someone's interest - idiom
• (for a shrine maiden) to present water to spirits while invoking them
• to offer water before a grave

expression:

• it's always darkest before the dawn; the darkest hour is just before the dawn

expression:

• The evil persons are the right object of Amida's salvation; The evil persons have the unique opportunity to go to heaven - four character idiom

expression:

• (from rakugo) that's all from me, and now the next speaker ...; expression used to hand over to the next speaker

noun:

• someone else writing; someone else's writing

noun:

• fount of knowledge; the smart one (of a group of people); brains - idiom
• bag full of wisdom; bag containing all the world's wisdom

noun / adjectival noun:

• being proven guilty of a crime; having one's guilt for a crime made clear; (the) nature of offense being (becoming) clear - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• riding in the same carriage (car) (with a superior); attending on (one's superior) in the same carriage

expression:

• would be a waste of words; would be a waste of breath; there's no point in saying

conjunction:

• If that's the case ...; If so ...; That being the case ...

noun:

• Amitabha (Buddha); Amida - Buddhism term
• ghostleg lottery; ladder lottery; lottery in which participants trace a line across a lattice pattern to determine the winner - abbreviation ➜ 阿弥陀籤【あみだくじ】
• wearing a hat pushed back on one's head - abbreviation ➜ 阿弥陀被り【あみだかぶり】

noun:

• thoughts; opinion; (one's) discretion - honorific language
• however much money you wish to give (as alms, a fee at a museum, etc.)
• fondness (for a significant other, etc.; often used teasingly); love; fancy; liking

noun / ~する noun:

• filling in gaps; filling in blanks (in a form, etc.); stopgap; temporary measure
• covering up a deficit; making up for something (e.g. one's mistake)

noun:

• impoverishment of fishermen because of a bumper catch; decline in fishermen's income caused by the sharply lower fish prices as a result of an overabundant catch - four character idiom