noun:

• night express with sleeper cars (from the original color of the trains) (colour)

noun:

• white-freckled surgeonfish (Acanthurus maculiceps, species of tang from the Indo-West Pacific); spot-face surgeon; pale-lined surgeonfish; yellow-freckled surgeon fish

noun:

• New Year food for entertaining a guest served in multilayered lacquered boxes
• Kansai New Year decoration (made from food) - Edo name - archaism ➜ 蓬莱飾り【ほうらいかざり】

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to spoil someone's start; to kill someone's enthusiasm; to take the wind out of someone's sails

expression / godan ~る verb (irregular):

• to have both the looks and the substance; to be a compassionate and just person; to be interesting and instructive - idiom

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to pass the baton (e.g. in a relay race)
• to pass the baton; to hand on the torch - idiom

noun:

• cup of sake used to drink to the establishment of a partnership, commitment to marriage, etc.; nuptial cup of sake

noun:

• (one's) parents preventing one from doing something; (one's) parents' protests

expression / ichidan verb:

• to teach someone a lesson; to show someone a thing or two; to show someone what one can do - idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to keep one's wits about one; to be on one's guard; to be wary of trickery - idiom ➜ 眉唾物【まゆつばもの】

expression:

• widowers are untidy; a man alone soon goes to seed; a man goes to pieces without a woman to look after him - proverb

noun:

• pile; pool; collection ➜ 溜まる
• gathering spot ➜ たまり場
• waiting place for a wrestler beside the ring - Sumo term
• liquid runoff from miso preparation
• tamari; variety of rich soy sauce (used for sashimi, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ 溜まり醤油

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to have one's turn; to be on duty; to have one's inning

~する verb (spec.) / transitive:

• to stamp (one's mark, etc.); to seal
• to leave (one's footprints, etc.)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to disturb the water; to wake a sleeping dog; to wake a sleeping child [literal]

godan ~る verb:

• to be on the verge; to be on the brink; to get close ➜ なりかける

godan ~つ verb / intransitive verb:

• to stand in a line; to stand in a row
• to be equal

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to jerk one's chin; to nod toward; to point one's chin at ➜ 決る【しゃくる】

noun:

• Japanese babylon (species of shelled mollusk, Babylonia japonica); Japanese ivory shell
• spinning top (traditionally made from a Japanese babylon shell) - abbreviation ➜ 貝独楽

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to be in confusion or commotion; to be in a turmoil; to be crowded or jammed with people

noun:

• photomontage; manipulated photo; photoshopped picture - slang - abbreviation ➜ コラージュ
• kora (West-African instrument)
• kora layer; layer formed from volcanic ash on the southern part of the Satsuma Peninsula - Geology term

adjectival noun:

• seeming to be for a certain reason; seeming to indicate there are special circumstances; seeming to indicate there is more than meets the eye

~と adverb / adverb:

• whistling (of the wind); blowing
• fluttering (in the wind); waving; flapping; flying
• tottering; staggering
• aimlessly; wandering about; roaming
• aloof from the world; easygoing; transcendental; detached

noun:

• brown-spotted spinefoot (Siganus stellatus, species of rabbitfish from the Indian Ocean); starspotted spinefoot; tellate rabbitfish; yellow-tail starry rabbitfish

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to keep one's wit about one; to be on one's guard; to be wary; to keep on one's toes - idiom ➜ 眉に唾をつける