noun / ~の noun:

• what if (as in "what if" stories)

noun:

• garden soil; soil used in a garden

noun:

• playing in the mud; playing with mud

noun:

• playing in the mud; playing with mud ➜ 泥遊び【どろあそび】

noun:

• town girl; girl raised in a town - obscure term

noun:

• disparity in technology; technological gap; technology gap

noun:

• educational support; assistance in education; educational assistance

noun:

• setting moon; moon setting in the West

noun:

• attending a meeting; participating in a meeting

expression / noun:

• gold letters; letters written in gold paint ➜ 金文字

noun:

• overall victory; victory in the overall standings

noun:

• placer gold; gold found in placer deposits ➜ 砂鉱

noun:

• reduction in working hours; shorter working hours

noun / ~する noun:

• reefing a sail; bringing in a sail

noun / ~する noun:

• improvement (e.g. in skill, ability); advance; progress
• communication of opinions of the general populace to those of high rank Antonym: 下達 ➜ 上通

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to continue (for a long time); to occur in succession; to come next (e.g. on TV)

noun:

• selling one's personal effects in order to live (like peeling the layers of a bamboo shoot one by one)

noun:

• street performance by itinerant entertainers featuring a tumbling act in which a child performer wears a carved lion's head

noun:

• student council (details vary widely but a body of students that takes part in overseeing student behaviour or student activities)

noun:

• incarcerating a criminal in a temple as a form of punishment (popular during the latter Muromachi and Azuchi-Momoyama periods) - obscure term ➜ 寺入り

noun:

• tricolored monitor (Varanus yuwonoi, species of carnivorous monitor lizard from Halmahera Island in North Maluku, Indonesia); Moluccan black-backed monitor

noun:

• Argus monitor (Varanus panoptes, species of carnivorous monitor lizard found in northern Australia and southern New Guinea); yellow-spotted monitor

noun:

• kotatsu; table over an electric heater (orig. a charcoal brazier in a floor well) with a hanging quilt that retains heat - polite language - female language ➜ 炬燵【こたつ】

noun:

• registration of transfer of shares; entry of a change of holders in the register of shareholders

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to tire of; to lose interest in - archaism ➜ 飽きる
• to be satisfied; to enjoy
• to do adequately - after the -masu stem of a verb