noun:

• booklet constituting an informal living will (containing wishes regarding one's hospitalization or funeral, and perhaps one's life story, messages to loved ones, etc.) - From English "ending note"

noun:

• life-sized doll used for masturbation - From English "Dutch wife"
• cage (rattan or cane) used in bed in the tropics
• bolster used for warmth when sleeping

ichidan verb:

• to carry on; to go on with one's life
• to keep alive; to stay alive; to survive

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to study; to complete (a course); to cultivate; to master
• to order (one's life)
• to repair (a fault one has committed)

expression:

• enjoying a long life is a matter for congratulation; cranes live for 1000 years, turtles live for 10,000 years [literal] - proverb

lower nidan verb (archaic) / transitive:

• to study; to complete (a course); to cultivate; to master - archaism
• to order (one's life) - archaism
• to repair (a fault one has committed) - archaism

noun:

• (one's) view on work; (one's) opinion on work-life balance

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to run (a business); to operate; to conduct; to practice (law, medicine, etc.)
• to carry out; to perform; to lead (a life)
• to hold (a Buddhist or Shinto ceremony)

noun:

• registration of transfer of shares; entry of a change of holders in the register of shareholders

noun:

• weather of the four seasons (warmth of spring, heat of summer, cool of autumn, and cold of winter)

expression:

• just as it is reassuring to have a companion when traveling, it is important for us to care for each other as we pass through this life

expression / noun:

• one's station in life; one's personal history; one's circumstances
• one's lot; one's destiny; one's future

noun / adjectival noun:

• appropriate to one's lot in life; within one's means; fitting to one's position; suitable to one's social status - four character idiom

expression / noun:

• how to get along in the world; how to get on in life; how to swim [literal] ➜ 遊泳【ゆうえい】

interjection:

• goodbye; so long; farewell ➜ さようなら

noun / ~する noun:

• saying goodbye to (e.g. life as a bachelor); putting an end to; parting with

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• farewell (performance, party, etc.); final; last; game-winning (e.g. hit)

expression / noun / adverbial noun:

• one's youth; early life; one's early days; one's early years

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to dish up; to fill (a bowl) with
• to pile up; to heap up; to fill up; to stack up
• to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to prescribe
• to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)
• to mark out (e.g. scale); to graduate (e.g. thermometer)
• to exaggerate; to apply heavy makeup - slang

conjunction:

• for; for the sake of; to one's advantage; in favor of; in favour of; on behalf of
• because of; as a result of

noun / ~の noun:

• the past; bygone days; the previous
• a past (i.e. a personal history one would prefer remained secret); one's past
• past (tense); preterit; preterite - Linguistics term
• previous life - Buddhism term

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to share (life's) joys and sorrows (with); to share the good and the bad (with); to stick together through thick and thin

expression:

• all men are alike; all lives are alike; all men live and die; we all bleed the same; a pike conger has one life, a shrimp does too [literal] - proverb

expression:

• sacrifice something small in order to save something great; lose a leg to save one's life; let a large bug live and kill a small one [literal] - proverb

noun:

• volume number; reel number; scroll number
• number of volumes; number of reels; number of scrolls; number of turns (of a coil); number of windings (of a transformer, electromagnet, etc.)
• a set number of scrolls to be read by a Buddhist monk ［かんじゅ・かんず］

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to live; to exist
• to make a living; to subsist
• to be in effect; to be in use; to function
• to come to life; to be enlivened
• to be safe (in baseball, go, etc.)

expression:

• sacrifice something small in order to save something great; lose a leg to save one's life; to let a large bug live and kill a small one [literal] - proverb