expression:

• better to be the beak of a rooster than the rump of a bull; better to be the leader of a small group than a subordinate in a large organization; better to be a big fish in a little pond than a little fish in a big pond - four character idiom

noun:

• five punishments (of ancient China: tattooing, cutting off the nose, cutting off a leg, castration or confinement, death) - archaism
• five punishments (of the ritsuryo system: light caning, severe caning, imprisonment, exile, death) ➜ 律令制

noun:

• five punishments (of the ritsuryo system: light caning, severe caning, imprisonment, exile, death) - archaism ➜ 律令制
• five punishments (of ancient China: tattooing, cutting off the nose, cutting off a leg, castration or confinement, death) ➜ 五刑

noun / expression:

• five races under one union; founding principle of the Republic of China (Han, Manchurians, Mongolians, Hui, Tibetans) - four character idiom
• harmony of the five races; official policy of Manchukuo (Manchurians, Han, Mongolians, Koreans, Japanese) ［五族協和］ - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• acrobatic barrel-rolling (performed using the feet while lying on the back)
• handing something around (within a fixed group of people in a pre-arranged order)
• handing off a problem to someone else (in order to evade responsibility)

noun:

• free markets and open guilds (policy enacted by daimyo in the Azuchimomoyama Period (1573-1598) that weakened the strict regulations surrounding business establishment in market places and important cities, allowing new businesses to open in Joka-machi market places)

noun:

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

conjunction:

• even if that isn't the case; even though that isn't the case

noun / ~する noun:

• reallocating private land to public use (e.g. parks, roads); reduction in the amount of private land following a land reallocation; reducing the area of private land to reallocate it to public uses

noun:

• five flavors (sweet, salty, spicy, sour, bitter); five palates; five tastes
• five flavors (milk at various stages of making ghee: fresh milk, cream, curdled milk, butter, and ghee); "the five periods of the Buddha's teachings" [figurative] - Buddhism term ➜ 五時教

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to speak frankly; to speak unreservedly; to open up to each other; to talk candidly; to speak by laying everything on the table; to talk straight from the gut; to have a heart-to-heart talk

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to send (a thing); to dispatch; to despatch; to transmit
• to take or escort (a person somewhere); to see off (a person)
• to bid farewell (to the departed); to bury
• to spend (time); to live one's life
• to pass (down the line)
• to affix okurigana ➜ 送り仮名

noun:

• opposite side; bottom; other side; side hidden from view; undersurface; reverse side Antonym: 表【おもて】
• rear; back; behind
• lining; inside
• in the shadows; behind the scenes; offstage; behind one's back
• more (to something than meets the eye); hidden side (e.g. of one's personality); unknown circumstances; different side
• proof ➜ 裏付け
• opposite (of a prediction, common sense, etc.); contrary ➜ 裏をかく
• inverse (of a hypothesis, etc.)
• bottom (of an inning); last half (of an inning) - Baseball term Antonym: 表【おもて】

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to come to the point; to get straight to the point; to speak frankly; to speak plainly; to talk straight

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be able to possess (hold, get, etc.) ➜ 持つ
• to be well liked; to be popular; to be pampered (spoiled, doted upon, etc.); to be welcomed ➜ モテる
• to endure (the tests of time, the elements, etc.); to last

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• possessed; held
• rich; wealthy; affluent

expression / noun:

• flow of time; flux of time; lapse of time; passage of time; stream of time
• current of the times; trend of the times

noun:

• blow striking with the flat of the sword
• to slap ➜ 平手打ち
• metal flattened by striking
• tape; flat braid
• type of flat ornamental hairpin made of silver and inscribed with a clan's crest or patterns of birds and flowers ➜ 簪

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to obey (an order, law, etc.); to abide by (a rule, custom, etc.); to follow; to observe; to conform to; to yield to
• to follow (a person); to accompany; to go with
• to go alongside (e.g. a river); to follow (e.g. a sign)
• to serve (as); to engage in (work)

noun:

• Eiroku-period swordsmithing school, named for a place in the old Higo province
• sword of the Dotanuki school, usually thicker and heavier than regular Japanese swords
• in fiction, a heavier variant of Japanese sword

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to look at; to gaze at; to watch; to stare at
• to look out over; to get a view of; to admire (e.g. the scenery)
• to look on (from the sidelines); to stand by and watch; to observe

noun / ~する noun:

• fixing (in place); securing; anchoring; fastening down
• fixing (e.g. salary, capital); keeping the same
• fixation (histology) - Biology term

noun:

• user name (on an online forum like 2ch where the majority of users post anonymously) - slang - abbreviation ➜ 固定ハンドル
• user who uses a online handle (instead of posting anonymously) - slang - abbreviation ➜ 固定ハンドル

noun:

• bibliography (i.e. the study of books)
• bibliology (i.e. the study of books, booklore and bibliography)

noun:

• that (indicating something distant from both speaker and listener (in space, time or psychologically), or something understood without naming it directly) ➜ 何れ・此れ・其れ
• that person (used to refer to one's equals or inferiors)
• over there - archaism
• down there (i.e. one's genitals) ［あれ］ - colloquialism
• period; menses ［あれ］ - colloquialism

interjection:

• hey (expression of surprise, suspicion, etc.); huh?; eh?

noun:

• that (something mentioned before which is distant psychologically or in terms of time)

noun:

• side dish; okazu; side dish (meat, fish, pickles, etc.) accompanying the rice in a typical Japanese meal
• food for thought (esp. in the context of conversation, or material for assisting arousal during masturbation) ［おかず・オカズ］ - sometimes オガズ
• fill; fill-in (drumming)

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to tear; to rip up ［裂く］
• to cut up; to cleave; to cut open (esp. the abdomen)
• to forcibly separate (e.g. two lovers) ［裂く］
• to spare (time, money, etc.); to use part of something ［割く］
• to have a tattoo in the corner of one's eye - archaism ➜ 黥く