noun:

• throwaway match (i.e. one played after a tournament has already been decided); dead rubber

noun:

• diagnostic sphygmopalpation (in traditional Chinese medicine); medical diagnosis performed by feeling one's pulse

adverb:

• anyway; anyhow; as one likes
• by all means; at any cost; no matter what it takes

noun:

• thirteen orphans; winning hand containing one of each terminal and honor tile - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 国士無双

expression / noun:

• situation in which one can move neither forward nor backward; Benkei's last stand [literal] - idiom

noun:

• direct retribution; body and mind one is born into because of karma in previous lives - Buddhism term ➜ 依報

noun:

• period (of life) when one is enjoying more romantic attention than usual - colloquialism

expression / godan ~す verb:

• what a hoot!; joke of the century!; one's navel boils water [literal] - idiom ➜ へそで茶を沸かす【へそでちゃをわかす】

noun / suffix noun:

• clothes (esp. Western clothes)

suffix / counter:

• counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc. ➜ 一服

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to approach; to draw near; to be imminent

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to press (someone for something); to urge; to compel

noun / ~する noun:

• public appeal (e.g. for contributions); public offering (of securities); public advertisement (of a post); open recruitment

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to embezzle; to misappropriate; to peculate
• to accustom oneself to using; to use for a long time

noun:

• now-now-ism; being interested only in the here and now without any regard for the future

noun:

• consideration (in contract law, the thing given or done by the promisee in exchange for the promise)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to lay hands on; to touch
• to care for; to look after
• to make off with; to steal

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to hit a nerve; to go for the throat; to touch a sore spot - idiom ➜ 痛い所

noun:

• soldiers of the ritsuryo system that guarded gates of the imperial palace, the court, etc.
• term used in error to refer to young men that were made to do forced labour in the ritsuryo system
• guards originally stationed at the grand shrine at Ise and shrine at Atsuta, Nagoya to protect the officials there

noun:

• year
• age; years
• past one's prime; old age

adverbial noun / noun:

• now; the present time; just now; soon; immediately; (one) more

expression / adverb:

• just as one thought; as usual; sure enough

noun:

• mistake; error; discrepancy
• discrepancy between one's actions and intentions - Law term

godan ~ぐ verb:

• to follow in succession; to happen one after another

noun:

• speck; dot; point; only a little; particle; only one

noun:

• one's dearest wish; Buddha's vow to save humanity

noun / ~する noun:

• washing; cleansing; cleaning; laundering
• cleansing (one's mind and body) - Buddhism term