noun:

• Zen monk's early morning meal; refreshment; cakes
• simple Chinese food; dim sum

noun:

• one's hand (when playing cards)
• name tag; nameplate; business card
• wallet-sized (photo) - abbreviation ➜ 手札型・手札判

noun / ~する noun:

• fasting; abstinence; confinement to one's house on an unlucky day

noun:

• inviting another to one's home, office, etc.; the trouble of coming (going) [literal] - polite language

noun:

• sponging (e.g. off one's parents); sponger

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to improve one's skill (esp. at calligraphy or drinking larger amounts of alcohol) - idiom

noun:

• ladle; dipper ［しゃく］
• wild chervil (Anthriscus sylvestris); cow parsley; keck; Queen Anne's lace - usually written using kana alone

noun / ~する noun:

• conjectures and surmises; speculation; giving one's imagination full play without any ground - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• astonished; stunned; startled out of one's wits; thunderstruck; open-eyed astonishment

noun / ~する noun:

• change in mentality; changing one's way of thinking; adjusting psychologically to shifting circumstances - four character idiom

noun:

• dealing in rice speculating on the year's harvest before seedlings are set out - four character idiom

noun:

• show-off underwear; wearing clothes that reveal part of one's pants

expression:

• no skin off my nose; somebody else's problem; fire on the opposite shore [literal]

expression:

• without being able to help oneself; against one's will; compelling; pressing; irresistible ➜ 止むに止まれない・止むに止まれぬ

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to have one's feet reach the bottom (e.g. when standing in water)

expression:

• without being able to help oneself; against one's will; compelling; pressing; irresistible ➜ 止むに止まれず・止むに止まれない

expression:

• without being able to help oneself; against one's will; compelling; pressing; irresistible ➜ 止むに止まれず・止むに止まれぬ

noun:

• December kabuki performance at Kyoto's Minamiza Theater in which all famous actors perform

noun:

• rice cakes cut into rectangles (esp. eaten on New Year's Day) - Food term

noun:

• snakeberry (Maianthemum dilatatum); two-leaved Solomon's seal; false lily of the valley

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be unusual (of a person or of a thing); to be uncommon; to be peculiar; to be crazy; to be eccentric; to be different - sometimes derogatory ➜ 変わる【かわる】

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to be attached; to be connected with; to adhere; to stick; to cling
• to remain imprinted; to scar; to stain; to dye
• to bear (fruit, interest, etc.)
• to be acquired (of a habit, ability, etc.); to increase (of strength, etc.)
• to take root
• to accompany; to attend; to follow; to study with
• to side with; to belong to
• to possess; to haunt ➜ 憑く
• to be lit; to be lighted ➜ 点く
• to be settled; to be resolved; to be decided
• to be given (of a name, price, etc.)
• to be sensed; to be perceived
• to be lucky - from 運がつく

suffix / godan ~く verb:

• to become (a state, condition, etc.) - after -masu stems, onomatopoeic and mimetic words ➜ 付く【づく】

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to throw the baby out with the bath water; to strain at a gnat and swallow a camel; to obsess over insignificant details and miss the larger point; to straighten the horns and kill the cow [literal] - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• sex; sexual intercourse

noun:

• (one's) sex; gender

adverb / noun:

• one mind
• wholeheartedness; one's whole heart ➜ 一心に