noun:

• sleeping in a ship
• sleeping on the surface of the water (of a bird)
• restless sleep
• casually sleeping together (e.g. unmarried couple)

noun:

• lady-killer (i.e. a man who is popular with women); knocking a woman dead (with sex appeal)
• murderer of women
• murder of women

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to push (a thing) out; to jut out (can have a negative nuance); to protrude
• to rise out the trap door (on stage)

noun:

• shutting oneself in (one's room, etc.)
• barricading oneself in (a fort, etc.) while being besieged; holing up (in a building)

noun:

• area on the concave side of a mountain arc or a crescent-shaped archipelago ➜ 外帯
• area of southwestern Japan north of the Median Tectonic Line ➜ 西南日本内帯

noun:

• area on the convex side of a mountain arc or a crescent-shaped archipelago ➜ 内帯
• area of southwestern Japan south of the Median Tectonic Line ➜ 西南日本外帯

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to become muddy; to become cloudy; to get impure (of a liquid, gas, etc.)
• to become dull (of a sound, color, etc.); to become hoarse
• to become impure (of a heart, society, etc.); to be corrupted; to be polluted
• to become voiced; to add voiced consonant marks ➜ 濁り【にごり】

noun:

• pot of chicken or seafood, and vegetables in a dashi broth, usu. cooked at the table (traditionally a winter meal); seafood and vegetable stew or chowder ➜ 寄せ

noun:

• taking a day off by paying one's own fee to one's master (of a prostitute; often in order to see her lover)

expression:

• going well together; good combination - idiom

noun:

• family crest featuring a ring of bamboo with a sparrow in the middle
• design featuring bamboo and sparrows (motif in Japanese painting)

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to decide to
• to pretend that - after the past tense form of a verb
• to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to - as 〜ことにしている

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to chop off; to snip off; to cut off (e.g. a conversation)
• to fire (a person)

expression / godan -いく／-ゆく verb (spec.):

• to go on a trip; to go out to play; to go and visit (a friend) ➜ 遊びに来る

noun / ~する noun:

• happy family circle; sitting in a family circle and enjoying conversation; harmony in a family - four character idiom

godan ~す verb:

• to lose (a chance); to miss (a chance) ➜ 逸する
• to overlook; to omit; to forget
• to deviate; to depart from (the norm, etc.)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to trample down; to crush underfoot; to kick down
• to avoid paying (e.g. a debt); to jump (a bill); to bilk; to shirk

noun:

• hiragana; cursive Japanese syllabary used primarily for native Japanese words (esp. function words, inflections, etc.) ➜ 片仮名

noun:

• small private school (esp. for cramming)
• private school (in the Edo period, orig. run by Confucianists)

noun:

• tooth hardening toy (for infants); teether; teething ring
• tooth hardening meal; New Year's feast

noun:

• rice seasoned with vinegar, sugar and salt, used for preparing sushi; sushi rice - Food term

noun:

• starting point for an ascent (mountain, stairs, etc.); base (of mountain, etc.) - esp. 上 for stairs, 登 for mountain

noun:

• former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators) ➜ 律令制

noun:

• the privy purse; the money used for private purposes by the members of the Imperial family

noun:

• small okurigana used with kanbun
• small kana used for diphthongs (ya, yo, yu, i, etc.)

noun:

• "day of the ghost" (an extremely auspicious day on the lunar calendar for everything but weddings) ➜ 暦注