expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be frank; to speak one's mind; to open one's heart; to have a heart-to-heart talk (with someone) ➜ 打ち明ける【うちあける】

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to lie on one's back with legs outstretched; to recline
• to get cocky; to be arrogant

noun:

• foxtail wedged tenon joint; blind tenon joint with wedges inserted into slots on its end - Architecture term

noun:

• heavenly god; heavenly gods - also pronounced てんしん
• spirit of Sugawara no Michizane
• Tenmangu shrine (dedicated to Michizane's spirit) ➜ 天満宮
• pit of a dried plum; dried plum - colloquialism ➜ 梅干し
• tenjin hairstyle - abbreviation ➜ 天神髷
• prostitute of the second-highest class (Edo period)

noun:

• note written on the reverse of the right side of an ancient document (memorandum or explanation of the contents) - archaism

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to shine on; to illuminate
• to compare (with); to refer to

noun:

• young person who stays in their (non-metropolitan) hometown after graduation, drives a car, etc. (unlike the majority who moves to a larger city and commutes by train) ➜ ヤンキー

noun:

• hand; arm - occ. pronounced た when a prefix ➜ お手【おて】
• forepaw; foreleg - colloquialism ➜ お手【おて】
• handle
• hand; worker; help
• trouble; care; effort
• means; way; trick; move; technique; workmanship
• hand; handwriting
• kind; type; sort
• one's hands; one's possession ➜ 手に入る
• ability to cope ➜ 手に余る
• hand (of cards)
• direction ➜ 山の手

noun / suffix noun / counter:

• move (in go, shogi, etc.)

noun:

• (sound of) wind through pine trees; soughing of wind through pine trees
• (metaphorically) sound of a boiling tea kettle

adjective:

• terrible; dreadful
• amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); wonderful; terrific
• to a great extent; vast (in numbers)

noun:

• proportional representation system in which votes are cast for a publicly available list of party members or for individual members of that list

noun:

• Japanese reading of a kanji (sometimes esp. in ref. to readings that do not correspond to the orig. Chinese meaning of the kanji)

noun:

• driving away moles by hitting the ground with straw bundles prepared by children (esp. as an annual event on January 15th)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to develop a rash or inflammation (e.g. in response to a skin irritant); to react to (something)
• to be strongly influenced (usu. negative or critical nuance)

adjective:

• sweet; fragrant; aromatic ➜ 香ばしい
• good (e.g. reputation, rumor); favorable - esp. neg. for unsavory, etc. ➜ 芳しくない

noun:

• pineapple bun (Chinese sweet pastry similar to the Japanese melonpan) ➜ メロンパン

noun:

• steamed sweet bun made from grated yam and rice flour

noun:

• soju; Korean spirit typically distilled from rice or sweet potatoes - From Korean

noun / ~する noun:

• looking for a particular person or thing; searching high and low; hunting for; rummaging; scouring (a place) looking for (something)
• picking out; singling out

noun:

• shutting oneself in (one's room, etc.)
• barricading oneself in (a fort, etc.) while being besieged; holing up (in a building)

noun:

• court lady; lady-in-waiting (Heian period)
• separate room in a palace (esp. for a lady) (Heian period) ➜ 曹司
• room for a very low class prostitute
• very low class prostitute ➜ 局女郎

noun:

• on the wane (e.g. popularity of something); decline of one's fortunes

noun:

• Jataka; collection of texts on the early lives of Buddha (4th century BCE) - Buddhism term - From Sanskrit

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to chop off; to snip off; to cut off (e.g. a conversation)
• to fire (a person)

noun / ~する noun:

• happy family circle; sitting in a family circle and enjoying conversation; harmony in a family - four character idiom