noun / ~の noun / adjectival noun:

• middle way; (golden) mean; moderation; middle path

noun:

• the Doctrine of the Mean (one of the Four Books) ➜ 四書

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to coquet (of a woman); to entice a customer (of a prostitute)
• to flatter; to butter up

noun:

• world of tathata; "the pure and absolute truth of the tathata is as wide as the sea" [figurative] - Buddhism term

adjectival noun / adverbial noun / noun:

• very hard; with utmost effort; with all one's might; desperately; frantically; for dear life; all-out effort; sticking at living in and defending one place - four character idiom ➜ 一生懸命
• sticking at living in one place

noun:

• cooking over a second fire to prevent contamination from one's everyday fire for performing Shinto rites; cooking over a second fire to prevent contamination from mourning people, menstruating women, etc.

noun:

• young underground market (the underground economy in goods and services, involving lots of barter and buying and selling of secondhand goods)

noun:

• construction of a new shrine and transfer of the enshrined object from the old to the new, occurring at a regular, preordained time

noun:

• Yoshino period (Japan's Northern and Southern Courts period, esp. from the viewpoint of the legitimacy of the Southern Court, 1336-1392 CE) - obscure term ➜ 南北朝時代

noun:

• Yoshino period (Japan's Northern and Southern Courts period, esp. from the viewpoint of the legitimacy of the Southern Court, 1336-1392 CE) - obscure term ➜ 南北朝時代

expression:

• if you do a favor for somebody, you will get a return favor; if a fish is friendly toward water, water will be kind to the fish too [literal]; you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours - proverb ➜ 魚心あれば水心

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to trap (into a difficult situation); to put (in a fix); to throw (e.g. into turmoil); to trick (into doing); to lure (into a trap); to frame (for a crime) - usu. 陥れる
• to capture (a castle, fortress, etc.); to take; to reduce - usu. 陥れる
• to drop (something) into - orig. meaning; usu. 落とし入れる

noun:

• someone unable to fulfil their shopping needs (esp. in areas of depopulation or due to lack of transport); people who have been cut off from the retail sector; shopping refugee [literal]

expression:

• honey is sweet, but the bee stings; I would like to taste fugu, but I value my life [literal]; hesitating from doing something because of fear of consequences - proverb ➜ フグ

noun:

• sleeping in a ship
• sleeping on the surface of the water (of a bird)
• restless sleep
• casually sleeping together (e.g. unmarried couple)

noun:

• lady-killer (i.e. a man who is popular with women); knocking a woman dead (with sex appeal)
• murderer of women
• murder of women

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to spread (e.g. a rumour); to talk about (widely); to make fun of
• to sing the praises of; to praise to the skies

noun:

• method of awarding rare in-game items in mobile games only when the player has bought a full set of other in-game items ➜ ガチャ

noun:

• method of awarding rare in-game items in mobile games only when the player has bought a full set of other in-game items - abbreviation ➜ ガチャ・コンプリートガチャ

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to become muddy; to become cloudy; to get impure (of a liquid, gas, etc.)
• to become dull (of a sound, color, etc.); to become hoarse
• to become impure (of a heart, society, etc.); to be corrupted; to be polluted
• to become voiced; to add voiced consonant marks ➜ 濁り【にごり】

noun:

• user name (on an online forum like 2ch where the majority of users post anonymously) - slang - abbreviation ➜ 固定ハンドル
• user who uses a online handle (instead of posting anonymously); namefag - slang - abbreviation ➜ 固定ハンドル

~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to disappear

~する verb (spec.) / transitive:

• to cause to disappear; to get rid of
• (of time) to pass; to while away

noun:

• disappearance of snow (i.e. due to melting) - obscure term
• lack of snow (i.e. snow not falling) - obscure term

noun:

• member of National Diet; Diet member; member of parliament; MP

noun:

• job offer; letter of appointment; appointment letter; notification of appointment

noun:

• Blood Pond; pool of blood; pond of blood (in hell) - Buddhism term