adjective:

• dangerous; risky; hazardous; perilous; precarious
• in danger; in jeopardy; critical; grave; at risk
• uncertain; unreliable; insecure; unsteady; doubtful
• close (i.e. a close call); narrow

adjective:

• dangerous; risky; hazardous; perilous; precarious
• in danger; in jeopardy; critical; grave; at risk
• uncertain; unreliable; insecure; unsteady; doubtful
• close (i.e. a close call); narrow

noun:

• starting; engaging
• expenses; costs - esp. 掛かり, 掛り
• attack (esp. a corner approach in the game of go) - esp. 掛かり, 掛り; often as カカリ ➜ カカリ
• barb
• charge; duty; person in charge; official; clerk ［掛かり・掛り］ - esp. for government offices, railways, etc. ➜ 係【かかり】

noun:

• embossing a pattern; repoussé; hammering
• drum signaling the end of a performance ➜ 打ち出し太鼓
• serve (e.g. in tennis); drive (in golf)
• printout; printing out ➜ 打ち出す【うちだす】

noun:

• turning over; flipping over
• reply; response
• marks written alongside characters in a classical Chinese text to indicate their ordering when read in Japanese ➜ 返り点
• lapel

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to participate in; to take part in
• to receive; to enjoy; to be given

noun:

• warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period); samurai
• man in attendance (on a person of high standing); retainer ［さぶらい］ - archaism

adjectival noun / noun:

• liked; well-liked; favourite; favorite Antonym: 嫌い【きらい】
• in love (with); loved; romantically interested (in)

noun / adjectival noun:

• faddism; eccentricity
• the way one likes; (as) it suits one

noun:

• woman working in the nightlife business (bar or nightclub hostess, geisha, etc.); woman who works in an adult entertainment business; demimondaine; prostitute ➜ 商売人

noun:

• capsule toy; vending machine toy - also brand name ➜ カプセルトイ

noun / ~する noun:

• method of selling random in-game items in mobile games (similar to how capsule toys are sold) ➜ コンプリートガチャ

expression / ichidan verb:

• to greet in a friendly manner; to treat someone as if they were a guest in one's own home

expression / noun:

• match made in heaven; perfect match; great coupling; sika deer and maple leaves (a common motif in poetry and classical Japanese painting) [literal]

noun:

• link; connection; tie; bond; contact

noun / ~の noun:

• filler; stopgap (job, budget, etc.)

noun:

• thickener (e.g. in cooking); thickening; liaison
• hedging; hedge - Finance term ➜ ヘッジ
• overalls; coveralls; boiler suit
• intermission (in kabuki); interval

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to misplace; to put in the wrong place
• to make a mistake in deciding the winner - Sumo term

noun:

• festival held in July in Fukuoka City; Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival (often just called Yamakasa Festival)

expression:

• meanwhile; in the meantime; by the same token; likewise; equally; at the same time - usu. その一方で
• in contrast

expression / ichidan verb:

• to check (in chess)
• to threaten (somebody's position, etc.); to close in (on somebody) - idiom

expression:

• the pot calling the kettle black; the goop in the eye laughing at the snot in the nose [literal] - idiom

expression:

• once over the borders one may do anything; what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas; shame (committed while) on a journey can be scratched away [literal] - proverb

noun:

• karayuki-san; young Japanese women who were sent to work (mainly as prostitutes) in foreign countries, esp. in Southeast Asia (Meiji to early Showa) ➜ 唐行き【からゆき】

ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs):

• to be in common; to have in common
• to be in mutually understood
• to be mutually connected; to have a link

noun:

• Rustication Movement; movement in China in 1957 to get people to move to the countryside

noun:

• (pair of) wooden doors in the interior of a home
• door to a pavilion in a Heian period palace ➜ 寝殿造

ichidan verb:

• to carry in one's own hands; to carry in a manner that is obvious to others - colloquialism ➜ 提げる【さげる】

noun:

• early Edo-period book written entirely in kana or in a mixture of kana and kanji (primarily intended for women and children) - four character idiom