noun / ~する noun:

• wind blowing down, coming over a mountain

noun:

• immediately after one's draw - Mahjong term
• winning off a discarded tile from the player to one's right or across the table on the turn after letting one's winning tile go by from the player to one's left - Mahjong term

expression / ~よい adjective:

• it's OK to ...; it's best to ...; it's alright to ... - usu. verb-て...

noun:

• haggis (traditional Scottish dish made from a sheep's offal cooked in the animal's stomach)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to follow suit; to imitate or follow someone blindly
• to ride on someone's back; to ride someone's coattails; to take advantage (e.g. of another's popularity)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to fray one's nerves; to wear out one's nerves; to frazzle one's nerves; to be a nervous wreck

expression:

• a thorn in one's side; a pain in the butt (often someone higher in rank, ability, etc.); a person standing in one's way; a superior who obstructs one's freedom of action ➜ 目の上のこぶ

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to cock one's head in puzzlement; to tilt one's head in contemplation; to wrack one's brain; to think hard

noun:

• Noraism; women breaking with family and seeking individual freedom (from heroine in Ibsen's "Doll's House")

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to quit (a shady business); to wash one's hands of; to cut one's ties with; to turn over a new leaf; to go straight - idiom
• to wash one's feet

expression:

• you've hit the nail on the head; that's just what I thought; that's exactly like I feel; that's exactly what I think, too

expression / ichidan verb:

• to raise one's face; to lift one's head; to raise one's eyes

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to restore one's energy; to restore one's spirits; to recharge one's batteries

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to snap one's fingers
• to pop one's fingers; to crack one's knuckles

noun:

• millionaire ［ちょうじゃ］
• one's superior; one's elder; one's senior
• virtuous and gentle person - archaism
• female owner of a whorehouse in a post town ［ちょうじゃ］ - archaism
• chief of a post town ［ちょうじゃ］ - archaism ➜ 宿駅

noun / ~する noun:

• grinding of the teeth; involuntary nocturnal tooth grinding; bruxism
• grinding one's teeth out of anger or vexation; gnashing one's teeth; gritting one's teeth

noun:

• townhouse (i.e. house in the middle of a town); traditional townhouse
• tradesman's house (esp. a home with a shop in front); merchant's house; merchant's family

expression:

• rejecting the advances of women is a man's shame; shameful is he who spurns a woman's invitation; not eating the meal set before him is a man's shame [literal] - proverb ➜ 据え膳【すえぜん】

expression:

• it's not over yet; you haven't seen anything yet; it's not over until the fat lady sings; it's too soon to tell; we're not out of the woods

noun:

• Ijima's leaf warbler (Phylloscopus ijimae); Izu leaf warbler, Ijima's willow warbler; Ijima's warbler

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to recover a cost; to recover an expense; to get a return on one's investment; to get one's money's worth

noun / ~する noun:

• brood parasitism (planting one's eggs in another bird's nest, as demonstrated by the cuckoo, etc.)

expression / noun / adjectival noun:

• real nuisance; becoming inconvenienced by someone else's problems (through no fault of one's own) - the いい is ironic

noun:

• fall; decline; lowering; hanging down; drooping; slanting (downward) Antonym: 上がり
• string apron; ornamental cords hanging from the front of a sumo wrestler's belt - Sumo term
• food offering to the gods; leftovers; hand-me-downs - usu. as お下がり ➜ お下がり
• leaving (one's master's place for home)

suffix noun / noun:

• a little after ...

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to turn over; to turn around ➜ 身を翻す
• to change (one's mind); to reverse (one's decision); to take back (one's words)
• to fly (flag, etc.); to wave (skirt, cape, etc.)

noun:

• nine levels of Amitabha's Pure Land - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 浄土
• Amitabha's Pure Land ［くほん］ ➜ 九品浄土
• nine-tiered lotus leaf platform in Amitabha's Pure Land ［くほん］ ➜ 九品蓮台