noun / suffix noun:

• degree; extent; amount; balance; state; condition

noun:

• (health) condition; state of health

noun / ~する noun:

• adjustment; moderation; regulation
• addition and subtraction

suffix noun:

• slight sign of ...; slight state of ...
• just right for ...

noun:

• eight-tenths
• casting someone out
• type of baggy tobi trousers with the baggy part taking up eight-tenths of the full length of the trouser leg ➜ 鳶ズボン

noun:

• the full scope of the heavens; 360 degrees; one full revolution of the earth
• twelve years; one full cycle of the Chinese calendar

noun:

• peoples formerly of northern Japan with distinct language and culture (i.e. the Ainu) - archaism ➜ 蝦夷
• provincial (i.e. a person who lives far from the city)
• brutish, unsophisticated warrior (esp. used by Kyoto samurai to refer to samurai from eastern Japan)
• foreigner; barbarian - derogatory term

noun:

• tall chair (e.g. for eating at a counter); bar stool
• high-chair; tall child's chair, often with a tray for food ➜ 子供椅子

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to listen repeatedly; to listen again
• to ask a question in return
• to ask again; to ask for a repeated explanation

noun:

• Japanese league; ri; old Japanese unit of distance, approx. 3.927km or 2.44 miles
• neighbourhood (under the ritsuryo system; orig. of 50 homes) ➜ 郷里制・国郡里制
• unit of area (approx. 654m by 654m) ➜ 条里制

noun:

• winning without fighting; method used to win without fighting - four character idiom
• one's own way of doing things (i.e. as different from that of one's instructor)
• Shinto-ryu (school of kenjutsu) - colloquialism ➜ 新当流

noun / ~する noun:

• being at a complete loss as to what to do; being at one's wit's end; being at a loss for an answer - four character idiom

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to repeat the mistake of somebody; to make the same mistake as that of ...; to follow the rut of the preceding cart [literal] ➜ 轍を踏む

noun:

• they (of people); gentlemen (of the ...) - honorific language
• you (usu. plural) - honorific language

adverb:

• various

noun:

• pulse
• vein
• chain (of mountains, etc.)
• hope
• thread (of an argument)

noun:

• emperor (of Japan); mikado
• (the gates of an) imperial residence ［御門］ - honorific language

noun:

• deck cargo; upper layer of goods

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• extra

~する noun:

• to pile on top of

noun:

• agency; commission; distributor; intermediation ➜ 取り次ぐ【とりつぐ】
• reception (of guests) ➜ 取り次ぐ
• conveyance (of messages) ➜ 取り次ぐ

noun:

• notice of personnel change (appointment, dismissal, etc.)
• wording; choice of language; phraseology

noun:

• congeries of many households; scratch (combined) team; hodge podge of parties - four character idiom

noun:

• beginning of spring
• first month of the lunar calendar; New Year ➜ 睦月

noun / ~する noun:

• flushing (of one's cheeks); dizziness; rush of blood to the head

noun:

• politics of fear; terrorism
• reign of terror (esp. in the French revolution)

noun:

• virtuous deed; act of merit - Buddhism term
• grace (of the buddhas and gods); blessing - Buddhism term

noun:

• clause; paragraph; item
• argument - Linguistics term
• term (of an equation) - Mathematics term
• nape (of the neck) - archaism ➜ 項【うなじ】

noun:

• rush of business; versatility; man who can do the work of many - four character idiom

noun:

• use of seductive techniques to attain one's ends (usu. of women)

noun:

• generation of young people (esp. of the 1970s) apathetic about social issues