noun:

• one's own ground; one's own position; one's own area of the field (soccer, rugby, etc.)

noun:

• one's official name; one's registered name; one's name as it appears on the family register ➜ 戸籍

noun:

• the respective (relative) strength of political parties; distribution of the number of parliamentary seats held by each of the political parties - four character idiom

noun:

• (of Chinese) pronunciation of kanji with a medial between the initial consonant and center vowel
• (of Japanese) the long "o" vowel arising from combination of the "o" and "u" or "e" and "u" sounds

~する verb (spec.):

• to tell (a person's) fortune; to divine; to fix; to choose

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to fall into a trap; to play into another's hands

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to communicate with a look; to talk with one's eyes [literal]

~と adverb / adverb:

• lapping (e.g. of waves against the shore) - onomatopoeia
• steadily (advancing); gradually (approaching) - onomatopoeia

~の noun / adjectival noun:

• sufficient (of the amount of liquid needed to cover a submerged object); just enough - often used adverbially as ひたひたに - onomatopoeia

~と adverb / adverb:

• speedily; promptly; quickly; smoothly - onomatopoeia - archaism
• closely; exactly - onomatopoeia - archaism

expression:

• anybody can look good with the right clothes; clothes make the man; fine feathers make fine birds; clothes on a packhorse driver [literal] - proverb

godan ~く verb:

• to pass; to pass on; to give (something) a miss
• to cut it out; to knock off (for the day); to let the matter drop

noun:

• movement; move; motion
• trend; development; change; fluctuation

godan ~す verb:

• to smile back (at a person); to answer someone's smile

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to hone one's blade; to sharpen a sword
• to scheme; to plot

noun:

• bareback clothes; clothes which leave a woman's back exposed
• bareback riding

noun:

• mountain's surface; bare surface of a mountain

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to keep a promise; to keep one's word ➜ 約束を破る

expression:

• it's been a long time; long time no see - abbreviation - slang ➜ 久しぶり

expression / ichidan verb:

• to serve a master; to serve one's employer faithfully

noun / ~の noun:

• very resourcefully using tactics adapting oneself to the requirements of the moment; playing it by ear; acting according to circumstances - four character idiom

noun:

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

noun:

• trial in absentia; judgment by default (judgement)

adverb:

• naturally; in due course; by itself

noun:

• payment in advance (by bank transfer)

numeric:

• one-hundredth; 0.3 mm (one-hundredth of a sun); 0.1 percent (one-hundredth of a wari); 0.0375 grams (one-hundredth of a monme)

noun:

• old monetary unit (0.001 yen)

noun:

• the Avici hell, the eighth and most painful of the eight hells in Buddhism - four character idiom