noun:

• system of automatic advancement to high school and university without an entrance exam ➜ エスカレーター学校【エスカレーターがっこう】

noun:

• jar; pot; vase
• dice cup
• depression (i.e. the basin of a waterfall)
• target (when aiming an arrow) - archaism
• (figurative) bull's-eye - usually written using kana alone ➜ 思うつぼ
• key point (of a conversation, etc.) - usually written using kana alone
• acupuncture point; moxibustion point - usually written using kana alone
• nodes on a fingerboard (of a shamisen, etc.) - often ツボ - usually written using kana alone

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to show; to display; to flash
• to dangle (an offer) in front of; to hold out; to indirectly hint at; to intimate; to obliquely suggest; to allude to; to imply
• to send flurries (of snow, etc.)

noun:

• stole; scarf
• stall (of an engine or aircraft)
• stall (cattle)

noun:

• brain (organ)
• brains (of an operation); brain trust - abbreviation ➜ ブレーントラスト

noun:

• taking a lead in (doing); setting an example of (doing) - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• getting up; getting out of bed; recovery from an illness

adverb:

• in the twinkling of an eye; in a flash

noun:

• stadial; stade; period of lower temperatures during an interglacial period

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to pluck the strings of an instrument; to strum

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to get into an argument; to come to discuss
• to be controversial (usu. as an adjectival phrase); to be contentious

godan ~る verb:

• to have an accident (esp. traffic accident); to cause an accident - colloquialism

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to have an ulterior motive; to have an axe to grind

expression / ichidan verb:

• to become scared; to have an attack of nerves; to have a yellow streak; to chicken out; to run out of courage

noun / counter:

• mountain; hill
• mine (e.g. coal mine)
• heap; pile

noun:

• crown (of a hat); thread (of a screw); tread (of a tire); protruding part of an object
• climax; peak; critical point
• guess; speculation
• criminal case; crime - used by policemen, crime reporters, etc.
• mountain climbing; mountaineering
• festival float (esp. one mounted with a decorative halberd) ➜ 山鉾
• wall; wall tile - Mahjong term
• temple; temple grounds - archaism

prefix noun:

• wild

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to resound; to be heard far away
• to reverberate; to shake; to vibrate
• to come (home); to remain (with someone)
• to have an effect; to make an impression

noun:

• preliminary conditions; initial conditions; state of preparations for (before) an event

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to deal with a situation; to take charge of an affair

noun:

• beside oneself with joy; in raptures; in an ecstasy of delight - four character idiom

adverbial noun:

• upon arrival of an item (items); as soon as one arrives - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• dive (e.g. into water)
• (underwater) diving
• dive (of an aircraft)

noun:

• people who share an interest; people of similar tastes; kindred minds

noun:

• infantile regression; regression to an earlier stage of childhood development - Medicine term

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to cancel a denominator; to clear an equation of fractions - Mathematics term

noun:

• great mandala (in Shingon); mandala with an image of each deity - Buddhism term ➜ 四種曼荼羅【ししゅまんだら】