expression:

• a single instance indicates what happens all the time; one case gives you an idea of what always happens

noun:

• one of the six administrators of a Zen temple who substitutes for the chief priest - Buddhism term ➜ 六知事

noun:

• doing something together; co-owning something and using it together - archaism
• being on par with one another - archaism

expression:

• if (an action, etc.)
• since ...; if you are going to ...
• one after another; indicates repeated action
• adds emphasis

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to say everything one wants to say; to exhaust a topic

noun:

• awareness of the minds of others (one of the six supernormal Buddhist powers) - Buddhism term ➜ 六神通

noun:

• heaven of enjoying emanations; one of the six heavens of the desire realm - Buddhism term

noun:

• heaven of enjoying emanations; one of the six heavens of the desire realm - Buddhism term ➜ 六欲天

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be equal; to ostentatiously display that one is equal (to) - colloquialism ➜ ため

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be equal; to ostentatiously display that one is equal (to) - colloquialism ➜ ため・タメを張る

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to tell X from Y; to distinguish; to know (one thing) from (another) ➜ 見分け

noun:

• smallpox demon; smallpox devil; deity to whom one prays for immunity to smallpox

noun:

• simple on-off switch; one-way switch (UK); two-way switch (US) ➜ ３路スイッチ【さんろスイッチ】・４路スイッチ【よんろスイッチ】

noun:

• simple on-off switch; one-way switch (UK); two-way switch (US) ➜ 片切スイッチ【かたぎりスイッチ】

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to exchange (messages, greetings, arguments, etc.)
• to intersect; to cross; to interlace

suffix / godan ~す verb:

• ... with one another; ... to each other - after the -masu stem of a verb

expression / noun:

• by a hair's breadth; in the nick of time; touch and go; close call; critical moment - four character idiom

noun:

• loincloth; breechcloth; breechclout; traditional Japanese male underwear
• kimono underskirt ［ふんどし・ふどし］ ➜ 腰巻
• wrestler's ornamental apron ［ふんどし・ふどし］ - Sumo term

expression:

• even the prosperous inevitably decay; sic transit gloria mundi; all that's fair must fade - from the Humane King Sutra - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun:

• form of magic or divination (e.g. animating objects to act as the sorcerer's agent)

noun:

• inactive bank account (no withdrawals or deposits made, and to which the owner's rights have been terminated)

noun:

• Japan's three antinuclear principles (against producing, possessing and allowing the entry of nuclear weapons into Japanese territory)

noun:

• functioning cuff buttons on a jacket (i.e. those that can be buttoned and unbuttoned) ➜ 本開き
• surgeon's cuffs

noun:

• functioning cuff buttons on a jacket (i.e. those that can be buttoned and unbuttoned) ➜ 本切羽
• surgeon's cuffs

expression:

• seven vernal flowers (Java water dropwort, shepherd's purse, Jersey cudweed, common chickweed, Japanese nipplewort, turnip, and daikon) ➜ 秋の七草

noun:

• Randall's pygmy goby (Trimma randalli, species in Palau and the Philippines)