expression / noun:

• person who tags along; hanger-on; person who follows someone around like a shadow; clingy person; goldfish feces [literal] - idiom

expression:

• every moment is precious; time is money; precious time - four character idiom

noun:

• all (there is) ➜ 限り・有る

expression / adverbial noun:

• as long as there is

expression / interjection:

• indeed, it is so; I concur, it is so - archaism

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to receive; to get
• to catch (e.g. a ball)
• to be struck by (wind, waves, sunlight, etc.)
• to sustain (damage); to incur (a loss); to suffer (an injury); to feel (influence)
• to undergo (e.g. surgery); to take (a test); to accept (a challenge)
• to be given (e.g. life, talent) - esp. 受ける, 享ける

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to find funny; to find humorous; to be amused (by) - esp. ウケる - colloquialism - usually written using kana alone

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to follow; to succeed; to be descended from - esp. 受ける, 享ける
• to face (south, etc.)
• to be modified by - esp. 受ける, 承ける - Linguistics term
• to obtain (a pawned item, etc.) by paying a fee - esp. 請ける, now primarily used in compound words ➜ 請け出す

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be well-received; to become popular; to go down well - esp. ウケる, うける - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• emphasis; stress; main point; importance
• point of a lever where force is applied

expression / noun:

• place where fire is likely to break out; possible cause of a fire

noun:

• cord tied around the waist of a kimono before an obi is tied

noun:

• very young bride; bride (married woman) who is little more than a girl

noun:

• college student who is merely marking time to get into a better college - four character idiom

noun:

• loaner vehicle (e.g. from a garage which is repairing one's vehicle)

noun:

• love that is motivated by job-hunting; using sex to get a job - abbreviation ➜ リクルートラブ

noun / ~する noun:

• thoroughness; completeness; consistency
• thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception

noun / ~する noun:

• leaving one's seat (before an event is over); excusing oneself (from a meeting, conversation, etc.)

noun:

• Japanese puppet theatre in which recited narrative and dialog is accompanied by a shamisen (forerunner of bunraku) ➜ 浄瑠璃・文楽

noun:

• Newton's rings (interference pattern seen when a convex lens is placed on another surface)

noun:

• crime committed together by two or more people (in which each is known as a co-principal)

noun:

• last death anniversary for which there is a memorial service held (usu. the 32nd or 49th) - Buddhism term ➜ 弔い上げ

noun:

• sounding stone; qing; ancient Chinese chime shaped like a chevron (inverted 'v'), orig. of stone, today often metal, in Japan primarily used at Buddhist temples

pre-noun adjectival:

• what is called; as it is called; the so-called; so to speak

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to try to ...; to be about to do ... - after the volitional form of verb
• to decide to ... - after the dictionary form of verb
• to take as; to treat as; to regard as
• to use for
• to suppose that (such) is the case; to assume
• to decide that; to think that
• to make into; to change into
• to feel (e.g. after sound symbolism or psychological experience word); to look; to feel like
• to intend; to have the intention - with を目的

expression:

• It's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one; They to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep; Poor thinking is futile; Inadequate ideas are worse than none at all - proverb ➜ 下手の考え休むに似たり

expression:

• It's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one; They to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep; Poor thinking is futile; Inadequate ideas are worse than none at all - proverb ➜ 下手な考え休むに似たり

noun:

• living only for one's work; a life with no other interest than one's work - four character idiom

noun:

• person whose presence is unwelcome, unnecessary or a nuisance; fifth wheel; third wheel; interloper