expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to hear; to hear by chance; to hear by accident; to catch (the sound)

noun:

• judicial decision made with human kindness and warmth in a fair manner (from the decisions of Ōoka Tadasuke, a jurist in 17th century Japan)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to stay bottled up inside oneself; to be introverted
• to have a melancholic appearance, atmosphere (of a person, object, place); to have a gloomy appearance

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to be smart; to be cool; to be sharp; to be stylish

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to scramble for; to struggle for; to contend for; to fight for

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be astonished; to be flabbergasted; to be startled; to be amazed - from たまきえる

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to crawl out; to creep out
• to begin to crawl

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be boiled; to be cooked; to be done; to be ready

ichidan verb:

• to be difficult to ascertain; to be difficult to understand ➜ 分かり辛い

yodan ~る verb (archaic) / intransitive verb:

• to be resurrected; to be resuscitated; to be rehabilitated; to be revived - archaism ➜ 甦る【よみがえる】

adjectival noun:

• apt to do; liable to do; tend to do; prone to do ➜ 勝ち【がち】

intransitive verb / yodan ~る verb (archaic):

• to go; to come - honorific language - archaism ➜ いらっしゃる
• to be - honorific language - archaism ➜ いらっしゃる

auxiliary verb / yodan ~る verb (archaic):

• is (doing); are (doing) - honorific language - archaism ➜ いらっしゃる

intransitive verb / yodan ~る verb (archaic):

• to be - after で - polite language - archaism ➜ ござる

godan ~る verb:

• to wander about; to wander around; to hang around; to loiter

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be able to eat; to be able to swallow - often in neg.: e.g. to stick in one's throat

adverb:

• in a line; in a row - onomatopoeia

expression / ichidan verb:

• to resolve to do; to make up one's mind to do; to set one's heart on; to have one's heart set on

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to kowtow (to bow from a kneeling position such that the forehead touches the ground); to prostrate oneself; to give a deep, reverent bow

noun:

• finishing reading

noun / ~の noun:

• non-serialised story (e.g. in a magazine); complete story

noun:

• breaks and pauses (in a sentence) ➜ 句読

noun:

• in calligraphy, an abbreviated or mistaken form of a character, or a work written in more than one calligraphic style

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to make good one's escape; to escape to a safe place; to make one's getaway; to effect one's escape

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to cover (with something); to put on (e.g. on someone else's head); to plate something (with a metal); to pour or dash a liquid (on something); to charge (a person with a guilt)

expression:

• Yama's pole with a human head on the top (able to discern good and evil of the dead) ➜ 閻魔
• (being a) fuss-pot; complaining about things in the public eye

adjective:

• terrible; dreadful - colloquialism ➜ 凄い
• amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); wonderful; terrific - colloquialism ➜ 凄い
• to a great extent; vast (in numbers) - colloquialism ➜ 凄い

noun:

• yamanba; manba; girl or young woman adhering to a fashion trend often characterized by extremely gaudy and colourful facial make up, heavily tanned skin and hair dyed in a bright hue - colloquialism ➜ 山姥・ガングロ

noun:

• between (e.g. two people); face to face
• hindrance; impediment
• arrhythmic section of recitative in noh music - usually written using kana alone - Music term

prefix:

• prefix used for stress or emphasis

counter:

• counter for traditional dance songs