noun:

• young bird; chick
• hina doll; doll displayed during the Girls' Festival ［ひな］
• green; wet behind the ears; juvenile ［ひよこ・ひよっこ］

noun:

• with no one upon whom to depend; utter loneliness; the lonely and the helpless; people who have no kith or kin - four character idiom

noun:

• an utai (noh chant) piece for recitation
• accompanied singing in which the singing is emphasized over the instrumental part (emphasised)

expression:

• harsh words make the going rough; consider your words; people may be offended (or not) by the way you speak - proverb

noun:

• year-end gift ➜ 歳暮・お中元
• end of the year; year end ➜ 歳暮【せいぼ】

temporal noun:

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

noun / ~する noun:

• order (esp. to a number of people); command
• ritual of bowing at start and end of school class

noun:

• small amount of silk (i.e. only one foot of cloth)
• unimportant painting; trivial work of art

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be separated (of clothing); to be exposed; to be wide open
• to stand with one's limbs apart; to block the way ➜ 立ちはだかる

godan ~む verb:

• to step into (e.g. someone else's territory); to break into; to raid
• to come to grips with; to get to the core of

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to regain one's footing; to get back on one's feet
• to recover; (of the market) to improve

noun:

• province-district-neighbourhood system (system of administrative divisions under the ritsuryo; 1 neighbourhood=~50 homes, 1 district=2-20 neighbourhoods) ➜ 郷里制・律令制

expression / adjective:

• to ignore; to take no notice of; to give the cold shoulder to; to not associate with; to snub; to refuse to deal with

noun:

• door-to-door manzai; form of comedy orig. performed at people's homes by entertainers during the New Year festivities; precursor to modern day manzai ➜ 漫才

noun:

• being inseparable as a form and its shadow; a person's deed mirrors the good or evil of his mind; husband and wife being never apart - four character idiom

expression:

• a great distance does not detract from the feeling (relationship) of endearment; feeling as though a dear one faraway were living in one's close neighborhood - four character idiom

adverb:

• holding horizontally in one's mouth; holding on the side of one's mouth

expression / adverb:

• as time goes by; as time went by; with the passage of time; over time

noun:

• suicide immediately after the death of one's spouse or lover; following one's lover (husband, wife) into death

expression:

• wretched is the lot of a government official; it is better to work for oneself than to work for someone else - proverb

noun:

• land given to high-ranking government officials (ritsuryo system); land given to pay for the expenses of a government office ➜ 職分田

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to be profoundly compatible; to be inseparable; to be so close as to reveal to each other the bottom of one's heart

noun:

• sleeve (esp. of a kimono); pocket of sleeve ➜ 袂を分かつ
• vicinity (esp. of a bridge)
• foot of a mountain; base of a mountain

adverb / ~と adverb:

• sound of something striking repeatedly (e.g. wooden clappers) - onomatopoeia
• something small hopping repeatedly; touching lightly and repeatedly - onomatopoeia

noun:

• punctuation marks such as the dakuten
• Chonchon; South American mythical bird - From

expression:

• a wise man keeps some of his talents in reserve; one shouldn't show off; the person who knows most often says least; a skilled hawk hides its talons [literal] - proverb