noun:

• bardo; state (or period) of intermediate existence between one's death and rebirth (in Japan, 49 days) - Buddhism term ➜ 中陰

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to slip out; to sneak away; to break free; to get through (a difficult situation)
• to break into the lead; to get ahead
• to begin to fall out (e.g. hair)
• to break out (of a loop) - IT term

noun / ~する noun:

• raid; military attack by a mobile unit; hit-and-run attack; search-and-kill mission; search-and-destroy mission; military action without a predetermined target; attacking the enemy or assisting allies as the opportunity arises

noun:

• shortstop; short - abbreviation - Baseball term ➜ 遊撃手

noun:

• young man (in the Edo period, esp. one with forelocks who has not yet had his coming-of-age ceremony)
• young male prostitute; young kabuki actor (who may also act as a homosexual prostitute)
• younger partner in a homosexual relationship ➜ 念者【ねんしゃ】

noun / prefix:

• both (e.g. both shoulders, etc.)

noun:

• ryo (obsolete unit of currency)
• 41-42 g (one sixteenth of a kin) ➜ 斤
• 2 tan (measure of fabric size) ➜ 反【たん】

counter:

• counter for carriages (e.g. in a train); counter for vehicles - also written 輛 and 輌

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to quarry; to cut (timber); to cut and carry off ［切り出す・切りだす・切出す・伐り出す・伐りだす］
• to begin to talk; to break the ice; to broach ［切り出す・切りだす・切出す］
• to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.) ［切り出す・切りだす・切出す・鑽り出す］
• to select and extract (from a media file); to splice out ［切り出す・切りだす・切出す・伐り出す・伐りだす］

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to make out to be; to set someone up (as); to prepare (e.g. someone for a role); to make (e.g. "a man out of him"); to frame

noun:

• young imperial prince
• child of the imperial family
• shrine dedicated to a child of the god of the main shrine ➜ 本宮
• newly built shrine (to which a divided tutelary deity has just been transferred) ➜ 勧請

adjectival noun / adverbial noun / noun:

• very hard; with utmost effort; with all one's might; for dear life - four character idiom ➜ 一所懸命

noun:

• pair of compasses; compass (for drawing circles, etc.) - From Dutch
• (mariner's) compass
• legs; step; gait

noun:

• weight
• weight (e.g. of someone's words); burden; grandeur; dignity
• importance; significance

noun / ~する noun:

• percussion; tapping; examining by percussion - Medicine term
• sounding out (someone's intentions); making an approach (about)

noun / ~する noun:

• opening; aperture (e.g. camera)
• opening one's mouth; beginning to speak

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• open; broad

noun / ~する noun:

• mass for the dead; Buddhist service held on the anniversary of someone's death

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to take advantage (of somebody's weaknesses, carelessness, etc.); to impose on

noun:

• captive; prisoner
• victim (of love, etc.); slave (to one's lust, etc.)

noun:

• field in which one acts unchallenged; unrivaled sphere of activity (unrivalled); one's monopoly - word borne of confusion between the kanji 擅 and 壇 ➜ 独擅場

noun:

• futon or cloth attached to the kotatsu's frame; cover for kotatsu

noun:

• coverall apron (esp. for cooking, cleaning, and household chores); cook's apron

noun:

• something (equipped) with legs
• sole of foot
• one's manner of walking

noun:

• pot - polite language ➜ 釜
• volcanic crater
• (one's) buttocks
• male homosexual; effeminate man; male transvestite - often derog. - usually written using kana alone - colloquialism

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to go downhill (e.g. for one's business); to be badly off (economically) ➜ 左前

noun:

• everybody's friend; person who is affable to everybody - oft. used derogatively
• flawlessly beautiful woman; flawless beauty

noun:

• focus of one's attention; what one is looking for ➜ 目の付け所

noun:

• side; flank ➜ 横腹【よこばら】
• illegitimate child; child born by someone other than one's wife