noun:

• pattern; figure; design
• state; condition
• conjecture of the current situation; the way it seems
• model; pattern; example
• indicates that something seems likely (e.g. rain or storm) - after a noun
• framework (in go); territorial framework; moyo

noun:

• hundred times worship (e.g. visiting a shrine or temple a hundred times for prayer, walking back and forth a hundred times before a shrine offering a prayer each time) ➜ 御百度

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to advance; to go forward
• to precede; to go ahead (of)
• to make progress; to improve
• to deepen; to heighten
• to be fast (of a clock); to be ahead
• to do of one's own free will ➜ 進んで

noun / suffix noun:

• (the) whole; entirety; wholly; as a whole; generally; universally

noun:

• the way (to somewhere); how to reach (a place)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to bring (a book) into the world; to publish

ichidan verb:

• to hasten (the work); to urge (a person) on

expression:

• Not a word to anyone; Mum's the word - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to fish; to have a line in the water

noun / ~する noun:

• transfer to the records; transcription to a special document

noun / ~する noun:

• working in the fields; working on a farm

~と adverb / adverb:

• rustling sound - onomatopoeia

noun:

• search (esp. a home search by the police) - obscure term - slang ➜ がさる

expression / adjective:

• cloudless (sky); without a cloud (in the sky)

noun:

• young men who are not competitive as in the traditional male stereotype, including in the avid pursuit of money and sex, and who may also be kind, co-operative and family-oriented ➜ 草食男子【そうしょくだんし】

noun:

• great and splendid land (of Yamato)
• spiritual center of the land; one's spiritual home
• excellent location; splendid place

noun:

• very superior old pale (cognac); VSOP
• one-track mind; person who always acts the same or says the same thing (esp. person who always cracks the same kind of jokes) - humorous term - From English "very special one pattern" ➜ ワンパターン
• VLBI Space Observatory Programme; Very Long Baseline Interferometry Space Observatory Programme ➜ 超長距離干渉計【ちょうちょうきょりかんしょうけい】

noun:

• omen; sign of luck
• origin; history; causation
• dependent arising; doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing - orig. meaning - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 因縁生起

noun:

• inner sanctuary; inner shrine; sanctum sanctorum; holy of holies; place behind main hall of a temple enshrining temple founder, miraculous Buddhas, hidden statues, etc. - Buddhism term

noun:

• spring rain that falls around the time that flowers bloom; spring rain that hastens the blooming of flowers

noun:

• Socialist Party of Japan (until 1996, became the Social Democratic Party of Japan from 1996) ➜ 社会民主党【しゃかいみんしゅとう】

noun / ~する noun:

• digestion (of food)
• digestion (of information); assimilation; thorough understanding
• consumption; absorption; using up; meeting (e.g. a quota); completion
• losing one's form and turning into something else - orig. meaning - archaism

expression:

• people may bring about their demise for love (like a deer coming forth when it hears a hunter's whistle in mating season); it is easy to have one's weak points taken advantage of - obscure term

noun:

• lower leg bone (esp. the tibia and the fibula, but sometimes also including the patella)

noun:

• the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow - Astronomy term ➜ 北斗七星
• Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn - Astronomy term ➜ 七曜【しちよう】

noun:

• (a) mood; (a) smile or a frown - four character idiom