noun / ~の noun:

• third rank (in the Japanese court system)

noun:

• trinity (Christianity); the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit

noun:

• second rank; second place

adjectival noun / noun:

• low rank; wickedness; vulgarity

expression:

• one should be satisfied without desiring more wealth and rank than necessary; waking, half a tatami mat; sleeping, a single tatami mat [literal]

noun:

• second grade of the third rank of honor (honour)

noun:

• ancient headgear showing rank

noun:

• ozeki wrestler's attempt to reach the rank of yokozuna; being eligible for promotion to yokozuna - Sumo term ➜ 横綱【よこづな】・大関【おおぜき】

noun:

• rank insignia

noun:

• rank and official position

noun:

• steward in charge of the affairs of nobles of the third rank and higher (from the middle of the Heian period)
• administrative position (Kamakura and Muromachi periods) ➜ 政所

noun:

• person of high rank or income

noun:

• court rank diploma

noun:

• rank and social status (e.g. in the imperial family)

noun / ~の noun:

• (person of) high rank and office (exalted station); persons in high positions - four character idiom

noun:

• conferment of posthumous rank

noun:

• one group comprising the lowest rank of Japan's Edo-period caste system (people whose work usually involved handling human bodies or animal carcasses) - vulgar ➜ 被差別部落民

noun:

• low-rank priest

noun:

• lacking rank; ordinary (citizen)

noun:

• grand champion filling the rank of champion to keep their number at 2 - Sumo term

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to rank with; to rank among ➜ 伍する

noun:

• court ladies of the middle rank serving in the inner palace (Heian period)
• female servant for a samurai family
• lady-in-waiting working in the inner palace of the Edo castle (Edo period)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be promoted to a higher rank

noun:

• rank and order of merit

noun:

• senior grade of the third court rank

noun:

• 10th in rank; tenth sign of the Chinese calendar