noun:

• Grand Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager and the Empress Consort - obscure term ➜ 三后

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to do one's best; to do something to the best of one's ability

noun:

• young man of conscription age who has not yet undergone military training - archaism
• man with no title and no rank (under the ritsuryo system); commoner - archaism
• servant dressed in a white uniform who carries objects for his master ［はくちょう］ - archaism ➜ 白張

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to go to the bathroom; to go to the restroom; to excuse oneself

godan ~つ verb / transitive:

• to become the head; to rise to the top; to rank above; to stand above

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to appear on the market; to be in season (e.g fruit)
• to circulate widely; to make the rounds; to go around; to float around

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be lonely at the top; to be left high and dry by one's friends; to have the ladder pulled out from under one [literal]

adverb:

• (what) the heck; (why) in the world; (who) on earth - before an interrogative, forms an emphatic question

noun:

• one object; one body; unity
• one form; one style
• one Buddhist image (or carving, etc.)

adverbial noun:

• generally; in general ➜ 一体に

noun:

• pearlscale butterflyfish (Chaetodon xanthurus, Western Pacific species found from Indonesia and the Philippines north to the Ryukyu Islands); Philippines chevron butterflyfish; orange butterflyfish; netted butterflyfish; yellow-tailed butterflyfish

noun:

• tally; check; piece of wood or paper split in half and given to each party as a form of proof (e.g. of a transaction)

noun:

• law of the country where a person habitually resides or is a national; law applicable to a person or to a person's legal problems

noun:

• meeting one's master for the first time (of a new servant); ceremony at which a new servant has his first audience with his new master - archaism

counter:

• counter for the ichi-ni-san counting system (usu. directly preceding the item being counted); noun read using its on-yomi - read as "ka" ➜ 箇【か】
• counter for articles - read as "ko" ➜ 個【こ】

particle:

• indicates possessive (esp. in place names) - read as "ga" ➜ が

noun / suffix noun:

• section (i.e. of text); sentence; passage; paragraph
• phrase - Linguistics term
• verse (of 5 or 7 mora in Japanese poetry; of 4, 5, or 7 characters in Chinese poetry)
• haiku; first 17 morae of a renga, etc.
• maxim; saying; idiom; expression

noun / adjectival noun:

• full of energy; full of liveliness; full of pep - four character idiom

noun:

• bed of nails; bed of thorns; bed of needles

noun:

• fire; trace of fire; heat of fire
• force of a fire ［かき・かっき］

noun:

• manner of swinging; way of swinging
• way of dealing with something ➜ 身の振り方

expression:

• might is right; history is written by the victors; winners are always right and losers are always in the wrong - proverb

noun:

• hanging; something hanging (i.e. a flap, lappet, etc.)
• sauce for dipping, etc. made from soy sauce, mirin, vinegar and dashi - also タレ - usually written using kana alone
• (in kendo) loin guard
• kanji radical enclosing the top-left corner of a character

suffix noun:

• -ass; -head - used after a noun or na-adjective indicating someone's nature; also ったれ - derogatory term

expression:

• (from rakugo) that's all from me, and now the next speaker ...; expression used to hand over to the next speaker

expression:

• well-known only to those in the know; be well-known but to the few; highly regarded by a select few

noun / ~する noun:

• the same ship; taking the same ship

godan ~る verb (irregular):

• to also be (implies that as well as the earlier stated this is also the case) - である with も; formal, literary ➜ である
• to be ... or something

noun:

• well up in both literary and military (martial) arts; well skilled in wielding both the sword and the pen - four character idiom