noun:

• memorandum of agreement; agreement; memorandum of understanding; MOU; letter of intent; heads of agreement

expression:

• seeing is believing; one eye-witness is better than many hearsays; a picture is worth a thousand words - proverb

noun:

• sense of fulfillment; sense of completeness; sense of accomplishment; sense of contentment

noun:

• means of communication; media of communication; organ of communication; tool of communication

noun:

• the respective (relative) strength of political parties; distribution of the number of parliamentary seats held by each of the political parties - four character idiom

noun:

• being unable to read the situation; being unable to pick up on the mood of a conversation - from the initials of 空気（が）読めない - abbreviation ➜ 空気が読めない

noun:

• taiko; title for a regent, later for the grand chancellor, also for the father of an Imperial adviser (advisor) who passed the role to his son - esp. refers to Toyotomi Hideyoshi - honorific language ➜ 関白【かんぱく】

noun:

• scriptures; sacred book; holy book; holy writings
• writings of a sage; sage's memoir

noun:

• castle and moat; castle's moat - obscure term
• City God (Taoist guardian god of a city)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to cut off the head of a sleeping person; to assassinate someone while he sleeps
• to catch someone off his guard by setting traps

noun:

• Pokemon seizure incident (Dec. 16, 1997); incident in which flashing lights in a Pokemon episode induced seizures in hundreds of viewers - From English "Pokemon shock"

noun:

• long-handled Chinese spear; lance; pike
• weapon; arms ［ほこ］
• grip of a bow ［ほこ］
• parade float decorated with long-handled Chinese spears - abbreviation ➜ 矛山車

noun:

• white
• striped mullet fry (Mugil cephalus) ➜ 鯔【ぼら】
• speech; one's lines ➜ せりふ
• white dragon tile - Mahjong term
• winning hand with a pung (or kong) of white dragon tiles - Mahjong term
• white person; Caucasian - abbreviation - archaism ➜ 白人

prefix noun / suffix noun / noun:

• Belgium - abbreviation - obscure term ➜ ベルギー

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to poke one's nose into another's affairs; to have a hand in; to take a (deep) interest in; to meddle in
• to poke one's head (into a room)

noun:

• an adult-age eldest son who has yet to come into his inheritance; (a young adult still) living at home; a dependent

noun:

• stealing a car by rear-ending it lightly and having a friend jump in and drive off after the driver gets out - slang

noun:

• coloring fabric by placing a paper stencil over it and brushing on the dye; fabric colored in such a manner - obscure term

auxiliary:

• word used at sentence-end (like a particle) to indicate speculation, volition or invitation - Kantō, Tōhoku dialect ➜ 可い

suffix:

• familiar suffix used after a personal name ［ぺ］

noun / suffix noun:

• set (of items) - pronounced ぐみ as a suffix
• group (of people); class (of students); company (esp. construction); family (i.e. mafia); team

noun:

• typesetting; composition

noun / ~する noun:

• improvement (e.g. in skill, ability); advance; progress
• communication of opinions of the general populace to those of high rank Antonym: 下達 ➜ 上通

noun:

• single crime consisting of multiple independent crimes (i.e. robbery, which consists of theft and threats or use of violence)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to destroy; to demolish; to pull down; to tear down; to level
• to disturb; to put into disorder; to throw off balance; to make shaky
• to relax (one's pose); to make oneself at ease
• to break (a bill); to change; to make change - oft. 札を崩す, etc.
• to write in cursive style; to write in running style - oft. as 字を崩す
• to break into a smile; to let off a smile - as 顔を崩す, etc.
• to lower (a price)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be in a hurry; to be impatient; to be flustered; to lose one's presence of mind; to be surprised

noun / ~する noun:

• participation in a war; going to war
• "taking part in a competition or contest" [figurative]

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to light (a candle, lamp, etc.); to turn on (a light)