ichidan verb / transitive:

• to address (someone); to accost a person; to talk (to someone)
• to begin to talk; to start a conversation

noun:

• having good knowledge of a certain matter; person who has good knowledge of a certain matter; informed source ➜ 通

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to extend; to stretch out; to stand in a row
• to attend; to participate in
• to enrol; to enroll; to join
• to have a connection; to be related; to be linked

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to get back; to regain; to recover; to make up (for); to catch up on

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to remonstrate; to admonish (someone) for; to advise (someone) not to; to warn against

noun / ~の noun:

• substance; real form
• main part; main unit; body (of a machine)

noun:

• this machine; this appliance

noun / ~の noun:

• object of worship (at a shrine, temple, etc.)
• noumenon

noun:

• base price; pre-tax price - abbreviation ➜ 本体価格【ほんたいかかく】

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to fall over; to fall down; to fall; to collapse
• to flop (e.g. of a play); to be a flop

noun:

• the end; closing; being done for - polite language ➜ 仕舞い

interjection:

• that's it; that's enough; that's all

noun / ~する noun:

• ceasing to think; refusing to think critically; giving up thinking (for oneself)
• going blank; mental block; inability to think clearly

noun / ~する noun:

• rōnin; ronin; masterless samurai
• waiting for another chance to enter university after having failed the yearly entrance examination ［浪人］

noun:

• person out of work; jobless person ［浪人］
• wanderer; drifter ［浪人］ - orig. meaning - archaism

noun:

• standard measurement for the distance between pillars in eastern Japan (approx. 182 cm) ➜ 京間
• Kanto-size tatami mat (approx. 176 cm by 88 cm) ➜ 京間

noun:

• standard measurement for the distance between pillars in eastern Japan (approx. 182 cm) ➜ 田舎間
• Kanto-size tatami mat (approx. 176 cm by 88 cm) ➜ 田舎間

noun:

• dried lacquer
• dry lacquer (technique); kanshitsu; technique for making objects (vessels, sculptures, statues, etc.) from many layers of hemp cloth soaked with lacquer

noun / ~する noun:

• Galapagosization; widespread design of Japanese products (e.g. cell phones) specifically for the domestic market, which are therefore unsuccessful overseas and also vulnerable to competition from imports - because the Galapagos contains many endemic species

noun:

• reference materials; specimen for reference; reference item; specimen

noun:

• care for the aged; elderly care; aged care

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to introduce oneself; to announce oneself (e.g. as the person sought); to come forward (e.g. as a witness, with a claim, etc.)

noun:

• being driven to the wall; finding oneself between the devil and the deep blue sea; finding oneself between a rock and a hard place - four character idiom

adverbial noun / temporal noun / ~の noun:

• whole life; a lifetime; all through life; one existence; a generation; an age; the whole world; the era

~の noun:

• (the only, the greatest, etc.) of one's life

noun:

• first of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Mercury and north) ➜ 九星
• white patch on one foot of a horse; horse with such a patch
• surface (landscape) that is white all over; pure white

noun:

• bracelet (made of stringed jewels or bells and worn at the elbow) - archaism
• bracer (for the elbow of an archer)

expression:

• first "horse day" in any lunar month, but esp. the second lunar month; traditional day for worship at "fox deity" shrines

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to lose a battle to win the war; to incur damage so as to inflict greater damage on a foe; to allow one's flesh to be cut in order to sever another's bone [literal] - idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to lose a battle to win the war; to incur damage so as to inflict greater damage on a foe; to allow one's flesh to be cut in order to sever another's bone [literal] - idiom

noun:

• iron (for pressing clothes)
• hair iron; hair tong; curling tong