noun:

• being unfit for duty in the former Japanese military (due to failing the conscription physical); person who is unfit for military duty

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to get back to normal; to get back into one's stride; to get back into the swing of it

adjective:

• smelling of fish; fishy; smelling of blood; bloody
• degenerate (of a monk); depraved; corrupt; fallen
• worldly; mundane; secular; common; ordinary
• fishy; suspicious; questionable

noun:

• top; summit; apex; peak
• twelve o'clock (usu. midnight) ［てっぺん］ - often in てっぺんを回る or てっぺん回る - slang
• top of one's head; top of a helmet; (top of) scalp; crown - esp. 頂辺 when in kanji - obscure term

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to cut deep into
• to cut one's way into (an enemy position); to rush on; to raid; to attack
• to press someone hard (e.g. with questions); to get to the heart of (a matter)

expression:

• he has not lived that lives not after death; the great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it; tigers leave their hide when they die; men leave their name [literal] - proverb

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be chipped; to be damaged; to be broken
• to be lacking; to be missing
• to be insufficient; to be short; to be deficient; to be negligent toward
• (of the moon) to wane; to go into eclipse - also 虧ける

expression / ichidan verb:

• to take a commission; to take a cut; to take a piece of the action; to take a kickback - colloquialism

noun / ~する noun:

• riding in the same carriage (car) (with a superior); attending on (one's superior) in the same carriage

conjunction:

• If that's the case ...; If so ...; That being the case ...

noun:

• break in the rain
• waiting for a break in the rain

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to flutter in the wind; to wave in the wind

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be to the point; to hit the mark; to be relevant

noun:

• being narrow in the middle; something narrow in the middle - obscure term
• mallet - archaism ➜ 杵

expression / godan ~る verb (irregular) / intransitive verb:

• to be worth the effort; to be worth the trouble

noun / adverbial noun:

• as it is; as one likes; because; as

noun:

• condition; state
• sic; sic erat scriptum; the quoted matter has been transcribed exactly as found in the source text ［ママ］ - abbreviation ➜ 原文ママ【げんぶんママ】

expression / godan ~る verb (irregular):

• to have both the looks and the substance; to be a compassionate and just person; to be interesting and instructive - idiom

adverb:

• unsparingly; without listening to the other party; without giving the other party a chance to explain ➜ 頭ごなし

expression:

• How can a small bird (a sparrow, a petty person) understand the aspirations of a great bird (a phoenix); Only a hero can understand a hero - four character idiom

noun:

• journey; course; distance; march; flight; drive; leg (of a journey, relay race, etc.)
• itinerary
• stroke (of a piston); throw (of a switch)

godan ~る verb:

• to be on the verge; to be on the brink; to get close ➜ なりかける

noun:

• frog (esp. the wrinkled frog or Asian grass frog); toad (esp. the Japanese toad) - colloquialism

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to arrive at (e.g. a decision); to reach (a stage); to attain
• to lead to (a place); to get to
• in the extreme case of - as ～に至っては
• to come; to arrive; to result in - archaism

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to succeed; to relieve; to replace - esp. 替わる, 替る
• to take the place of; to substitute for; to take over for; to represent; to hand over (telephone) - esp. 代わる, 代る
• to be exchanged; to change (places with); to switch - esp. 換わる, 換る

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to read a kanji with a different pronunciation
• to load (e.g. data on a computer); to read
• to change the language or wording (of a provision, etc.); to apply a different term - Law term