noun:

• love call; calling out to someone with love or good will
• phone call to a loved one
• fervent request; heartfelt appeal; passionate call to action

noun:

• placing ropes or wires around trees to protect them from the snow; ropes stretched from the top of a tree to the lower branches to prevent their breaking under heavy snow ➜ 雪折れ

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be beyond one's capacities; to be beyond one's powers; to be beyond one's control; to be unmanageable

expression / ichidan verb:

• to give one's life (e.g. in battle); to devote one's life (e.g. to a cause)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to break the rules; to violate the rules; to infringe the rules

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to be suspicious of; to be doubtful of; to be dubious of

noun / ~する noun:

• going to the Philippines; moving to the Philippines; migration to the Philippines

expression / ~よい adjective:

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

expression / ichidan verb:

• to take a breather; to take a rest; to take a break

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to boil (something in hot water) ➜ 煮る【にる】
• to treat with medicinal steam (a swelling, etc.) ➜ たでる

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to make a payment via bank deposit transfer
• to discard another player's winning tile - Mahjong term

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to become bald from the forehead; to recede (of one's hairline)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to keep one's distance from someone (due to fear or because that person is superior) - idiom

noun:

• cramschool (for boys and girls who wish to go on to the next stage of education)

noun:

• too many options making selection difficult; truth being hard to find as paths to it proliferate - four character idiom

ichidan verb:

• to stay on (e.g. at one's friends house); to remain in the same neighborhood

noun:

• kanji used to represent syllables, based on their "kun" readings (prior to the advent of kana) ➜ 音仮名【おんがな】

noun:

• form of ancient Chinese entertainment similar to a circus (brought to Japan during the Nara period) ➜ 猿楽

expression / adjective:

• (I) won't say anything no matter what; to be unwilling to tell even under threat

noun:

• northern side house (to the rear of a main residence; often home to one's wife) ➜ 対の屋

expression / adjective:

• all bark and no bite; unable to live up to one's claims

expression:

• wasting one's breath (trying to explain something); (reading) the Analects of Confucius to a dog [literal] - idiom

expression / adverbial noun:

• to a great extent; incredibly (tasty, much, etc.); (money) to burn; rolling in (cash)

expression:

• unable to take one's eyes off of something; having to keep a watchful eye on

expression / adjective:

• not a moment to waste; there is no time to lose; cannot wait any longer