expression / godan ~く verb:

• to feel relieved; to forget about one's troubles; to settle into peace of mind - idiom

adjectival noun / ~の noun / suffix:

• -phil; -phile; enthusiast (for); love (of)
• being attractive (to); to tend to be liked (by)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to lose one's means of livelihood; to become unable to earn a living

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to redeem (e.g. mortgage, pawned article); to ransom; to take up

expression:

• impossible to do (although wants to); cannot afford to; must not; no way we can - incorrect variant of 訳にはいかない ➜ 訳にはいかない【わけにはいかない】

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to bow (of one's back, e.g. due to age); to bend

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be unreasonable; to whine; to act like a baby

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to stab each other
• to sacrifice oneself in order to harm someone else

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be defeated; to be beaten; to be unsuccessful; to lose

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be angry; to resent; to be enraged; to be indignant

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be dispirited; to be dejected; to be disheartened; to lose heart ➜ 悄気る

ichidan verb:

• to speak jokingly; to speak teasingly; to joke around; to speak nonsense - colloquialism ➜ チャラチャラ

noun:

• language spoken by the Emishi ➜ 蝦夷【えぞ】
• languages spoken by the nanban during the Edo Period (e.g. Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch) ➜ 南蛮【なんばん】
• foreign language

noun:

• small festival on the eve of the main festival (esp. of the Gion festival) ➜ 宵宮

expression:

• to sacrifice something small in order to save something great; to lose a leg to save one's life; to kill a small bug and help a large one - proverb

noun:

• Acanthurus (type genus of surgeonfishes and tangs in the family Acanthuridae which have a pair of sharp spines on either side of the base of the tail)

noun / ~の noun / adjectival noun:

• middle way; (golden) mean; moderation; middle path

noun:

• the Doctrine of the Mean (one of the Four Books) ➜ 四書

noun:

• world of tathata; "the pure and absolute truth of the tathata is as wide as the sea" [figurative] - Buddhism term

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• not less than; ... and more; ... and upwards ➜ 余
• beyond ... (e.g. one's means); further (e.g. nothing further to say); more than ... (e.g. cannot pay more than that)
• above-mentioned; foregoing
• since ...; seeing that ...
• this is all; that is the end; the end

noun / ~の noun:

• far and away the best; the very best; cream of the crop; crème de la crème; decisive lead; commanding lead - from 断然 + トップ - abbreviation - slang

noun:

• Yoshino period (Japan's Northern and Southern Courts period, esp. from the viewpoint of the legitimacy of the Southern Court, 1336-1392 CE) - obscure term ➜ 南北朝時代

noun:

• Yoshino period (Japan's Northern and Southern Courts period, esp. from the viewpoint of the legitimacy of the Southern Court, 1336-1392 CE) - obscure term ➜ 南北朝時代

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• refreshingly; with a feeling of relief; pleasantly; (a weight) off one's shoulder - onomatopoeia ➜ さっぱり
• shapely; neatly; refinedly
• cleanly; without trouble
• clearly; plainly; distinctly ➜ はっきり
• completely; thoroughly ➜ すっかり
• not at all (with negative sentence); not even slightly ➜ さっぱり

expression:

• half a loaf is better than none; even a dead tree adds to the interest of a mountain [literal] - proverb

noun / ~する noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• parallelism; running parallel (to, with)

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• running concurrently; occurring at the same time; keeping pace with ➜ 並行