noun:

• Sanford's brown lemur (Eulemur sanfordi); Sanford's lemur

noun:

• pig's snout; nose resembling a pig's snout ➜ 豚鼻【ぶたばな】

expression:

• where there's a will, there's a way - proverb

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to break (into pieces); to be broken; to be smashed
• to collapse; to crumble; to decline; to cool (e.g. enthusiasm); to dampen (e.g. one's will to fight)
• to become less formal; to throw off reserve; to become affable ➜ くだけた
• to become easy to understand (e.g. a story) ➜ くだけた
• to be worried

noun:

• close (e.g. of business); leaving (e.g. school); retiring ➜ 引け時【ひけどき】
• being outdone; compare unfavourably (with) ➜ 引けを取る【ひけをとる】
• closing price (stockmarket) - abbreviation ➜ 引け値
• sink mark (casting, moulding); shrink mark - esp. ヒケ

expression / ichidan verb:

• to get beneath someone's skin; to in someone's hair; to irritate

expression:

• How did you like ...?; How about ...?; What's going on?; How's it going?

expression:

• How did you like ...?; How about ...?; What's going on?; How's it going?

noun:

• where one has gone to; place where one has gone

noun / suffix:

• place; spot; scene; site - also pronounced どころ when a suffix
• address
• district; area; locality
• one's house
• point; aspect; side; facet ➜ いいとこ
• passage (in text); part
• space; room
• thing; matter

noun:

• whereupon; as a result - after the plain past form of a verb
• about to; on the verge of - after present form of a verb
• was just doing; was in the process of doing; have just done; just finished doing - after past form of a verb

noun:

• knight - Shōgi term
• keima (in go); knight's move; stone placed at a knight's jump from another stone of the same color - usually written using kana alone

expression / ichidan verb:

• to search for a way out of a potentially fatal situation; to seek for a way out of a desperate situation

noun:

• tanuki (Nyctereutes procyonoides); raccoon dog
• sly dog; sly old fox; sly fox; cunning devil; craftiness; sly person; someone who makes evil plans without ever breaking their poker face

noun:

• opening section of a Chinese poem or essay (in which the topic is broached); broaching the topic of a poem or essay in its opening lines

noun:

• new moon - Astronomy term
• first day of the lunar month
• (in ancient China) next year's calendar and decrees (distributed by the Emperor at year's end)

noun:

• palace kitchen in which final preparations to the imperial family's meals (e.g. reheating) were made (Heian period)
• kitchen (in a noble's manor)

adjectival noun:

• of the old feeling of naniwa-bushi; marked by the dual themes of obligation and compassion that distinguish the naniwa-bushi ballads ➜ 浪花節

noun:

• forced reduction of a daimyo's land by the Edo Shogunate; curtailment of a daimyo's domain - archaism

~の noun / noun:

• once in an emperor's reign; event that takes place only once in a sovereign's reign - four character idiom

noun:

• student taking (university) entrance exams while still enrolled in school; student who passed their university entrance exams on the first try ➜ 現役

noun:

• Japanese bird cherry (Prunus grayana); Gray's bird cherry; Gray's chokecherry

temporal noun:

• New Year's call; beginning of the year; New Year's greetings

expression:

• Oh yeah; Of course it is so; Cheer up, that's average; It happens; It's possible; Don't worry, it happens

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to hold between; to grip with (from both sides); to nip; to catch (e.g. one's finger in a door)
• to put between; to sandwich between; to insert; to interpose; to interject
• to be on either side of (a road, table, etc.); to be across (a street, river, etc.); to have between each other

noun:

• secret of nature; profound secret
• disposition; character; nature
• emperor's health; emperor's well-being