noun:

• (of Chinese) pronunciation of kanji without a medial between the initial consonant and center vowel
• (of Japanese) the long "o" vowel arising from combination of the "a" and "u" sounds

expression / ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to become unrestrained and go to excess; to lose all restraint; to lose one's tension and become relaxed; to let go; to become disorderly; to be scattered; to lose one's self-control

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to take the middle (between the two); to split the difference

noun:

• billhook; fascine knife; sickle-shaped tool with a sharp inner edge, halfway between a knife and an axe

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to not know what to do with; to be at a loss with; to have difficulty with; to be put out - idiom

noun:

• distance in the standings between two teams expressed as the difference in number of games won or lost - Baseball term

expression:

• What are we going to do?; uh-oh; oh crap - Kansai dialect

expression:

• no matter what happens; in any circumstances; at any price

noun:

• training method in sports, etc. where one imagines how a scenario would play out; mental rehearsal; mental preparation; visualization (for practicing a skill in one's mind)(practising); practicing under simulated conditions (e.g. while watching a video); mental dry run - From English "image training"

noun:

• one mobile telephone ring (used by companies, usually sex-related, to register a phone number on a mobile in the hope people will return the call. Also used between acquaintances when swapping telephone numbers, or to get another person to call oneself)

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to pinch; to hold (between one's fingers); to pick up (with chopsticks, tweezers, etc.)
• to pick up and eat; to snack on
• to pick out (the main point); to summarize; to sum up
• to bewitch; to possess; to fascinate - usu. as つままれる

noun:

• red eyes; bloodshot eyes
• red-eye ➜ 赤目現象
• red mullet (Chelon haematocheilus) - usually written using kana alone ➜ 赤目魚
• facial gesture of pulling one's eyelid down and sticking out one's tongue

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be lonely at the top; to be left high and dry by one's friends; to have the ladder pulled out from under one [literal]

noun:

• everyone; each and every one (of you); ladies and gentlemen

noun:

• God and Buddha; Gods and Buddhas; one's guardian angel

expression:

• there's but a fine line between genius and insanity - proverb

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hit (e.g. one's head); to strike; to crash into
• to throw (e.g. a ball, a question, a demand)
• to express; to vent (e.g. one's anger)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be robbed of one's due; to have one's fried tofu snatched by a black kite [literal] ➜ 鳶

noun / ~する noun:

• bowing respectfully with one's hands clasped in front of one's chest - obscure term
• abdication of an emperor to a successor (China) - archaism

noun:

• a doubt that lurks in one's soul and that cannot be resolved

noun:

• one's youth; one's youthful days (years); the flower of one's youth; the springtime of one's life - four character idiom

godan ~ぶ verb / transitive:

• to play with (a toy, one's hair, etc.); to fiddle with
• to toy with (one's emotions, etc.); to trifle with
• to do with something as one pleases
• to appreciate

noun:

• mediation; intermediation; procuration; go-between; facilitating a rendezvous between lovers
• entertainment; treatment; reception ➜ もてなし

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• making a round trip; going and returning; coming and going
• round-trip ticket; return ticket - abbreviation ➜ 往復切符
• correspondence; exchanging (letters)
• socializing; visiting one another

expression:

• if not ... then what is it?; (this) is nothing other than ...