noun / ~する noun:

• girl hunt; trying to pick up a girl; looking for a girlfriend ➜ ボーイハント

expression / adjective:

• having a loose tongue; being talkative; speaking without thinking; being unable to keep a secret Antonym: 口が堅い ➜ 口の軽い

expression:

• once a fool, always a fool; stupidity won't be cured without death [literal] - proverb

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• tender sentiments; being overcome with emotions; having a tender feeling (for a person) - archaism - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• wind blowing snow down a mountain
• removing snow from the roof of a house

noun:

• yell made by archers when firing a volley of arrows; yell which opens a battle

noun:

• very old type of kiln made by digging a hole in the side of a hill

noun:

• small country with a small population (The Chinese philosopher Lao-tze's ideal of a state) - four character idiom

expression:

• Very truly yours (a complimentary close used in a letter written in an old epistolary style) - four character idiom

expression:

• Very truly yours (a complimentary close used in a letter written in an old epistolary style) - four character idiom

expression:

• the world is a scene of constant changes; the blue sea turns into a mulberry field [literal] - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• establishing (a new family register); compiling (an electoral register, a list of school-age children, etc.)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be relieved of a worry; to get a load off one's chest

noun:

• draft of a magazine's content (usu. a table showing the allocation of each page)

noun:

• power of finality (of a legal decision, e.g. when a case is dismissed with prejudice) - Law term

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to float upright in the cup (of a tea stem, as a sign of good luck)

noun:

• Hemiscyllium (genus of longtail carpet sharks in the family Hemiscylliidae with short snouts, nostrils at the tip, and elevated eyes and supraorbital ridges)

noun:

• one's heart
• at one's discretion; in one's hands

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to pull out; to draw out; to extract; to unplug; to weed
• to omit; to leave out; to go without; to skip

auxiliary verb / godan ~く verb:

• to do to the end; to carry through

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to let out (e.g. air from a tyre); to drain (e.g. water from a bath); to empty
• to pick out; to choose; to select; to extract
• to pilfer; to steal
• to remove; to get rid of; to take out
• to pass; to overtake; to outstrip; to get ahead of
• to pierce; to break through; to go through - also written 貫く
• to cut out (a shape); to create (a pattern) by dying the surrounding area
• to seize; to capture; to reduce
• to scoop (a story)
• to take out (an opponent's stones; in go)

godan ~く verb:

• to masturbate (of a male); to ejaculate (while masturbating) - slang - vulgar
• to take (a photo); to record (video) - slang

noun:

• market price
• speculation (e.g. on stocks)
• reputation (according to conventional wisdom); estimation; esteem

noun:

• (Japanese) mattress; underquilt; futon laid on the floor; sleeping mat Antonym: 掛蒲団

noun:

• exposing fully; uncovering completely; being in full view; putting on display; not disguising

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• outspoken; arguing (heatedly) what one believes in; insisting on something without restraint - four character idiom

noun:

• Bon festival; Feast of Lanterns; Buddhist ceremony held on July 15; ullambana - four character idiom ➜ うらぼん・お盆

noun / ~する noun:

• fasting; abstinence; confinement to one's house on an unlucky day