expression / ichidan verb:

• to win fame; to be widely-known; to be well known; to make a name for oneself ➜ 馳せる

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】

noun:

• the point just before; the point of doing; the verge of happening

noun:

• abandonment of the status quo; destroying the status quo; overthrowing the present situation - four character idiom

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to add (numbers)
• to add (something); to top up (with something)
• to take care of (e.g. one's business) ➜ 用を足す

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to exceed (esp. figures: profits, unemployment rate, etc.); to surpass; to be more than; to be better than ➜ 下回る

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to manipulate figures to one's advantage; to count wrongly on purpose; to inflate or deflate one's age - idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to give one's everything; to make one's best effort; to be enthused; to put your back into it - idiom

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be lazy; to be slack; to feel dull; to feel languid; to feel listless

expression / adjective:

• to be at a loss for words; to be speechless; to be dumbfounded; to be struck dumb

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to lean on; to recline on
• to rely on; to depend on

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to be knocked out; to be overwhelmed; to be flabbergasted; to be thrown for a loop

godan ~む verb:

• to get stuck in; to be mired in
• to be addicted to

expression / ichidan verb:

• to flee from one's enemy; to turn tail
• to expose one's weakness to an adversary

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to be frightened out of one's wits; to be amazed; to be astounded; to be stunned

~の noun / adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• side; edge; beside; besides; nearby ➜ 傍らに

adverbial noun:

• while (doing); in addition to; at the same time - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale (corresponding to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do, i.e. the Dorian mode) ➜ 呂旋

noun:

• useless book learning; knowing the theory but being able to put it into practice; practising swimming in a field [literal] - idiom - humorous term

noun:

• ceremony to consecrate a newly made Buddhist statue or image by inserting the eyes (thereby investing it with soul) - four character idiom

noun / suffix:

• including; inclusive of ［こみ］

noun:

• komi; extra points given to the white player as compensation for playing second (in go) - usu. コミ - usually written using kana alone - abbreviation ➜ コミ出し【コミだし】

noun:

• creating a noun by affixing "ku" to the end of an inflectable word (e.g. "omowaku", "osoraku")

expression / godan ~る verb:

• you'll have to pay for it; the bill will come due; there's no escaping - idiom ➜ ツケが回って来る【ツケがまわってくる】

noun:

• iteration mark shaped like the hiragana "ku" (used in vertical writing to represent repetition of two or more characters) ➜ 踊り字

noun:

• integrated set of schools that offers education from one stage to the next without taking entrance exams en route

noun:

• Ama no Mihashira; the heavenly pillar on Onokoro Island, around which Izanagi and Izanami are said to have wed - archaism ➜ オノコロ島