noun:

• meat shop; butcher's shop
• butcher

noun:

• war fan; commander's war fan

expression / ichidan verb:

• to act as one; to act in concert; to keep pace; to stay in step ➜ 歩調を揃える

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be within the top five; to be one of the five best - idiom

noun:

• purple yam; water yam (Dioscorea alata); winged yam ➜ 大薯
• purple fleshed sweet potato (any one of several different such) ➜ 紫芋
• Conus pauperculus (species of cone shell) - usually written using kana alone ➜ 芋貝

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to worry about (someone's welfare or comfort); to feel anxious about; to have apprehensions of

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to pay attention to another's needs; to attend to; to fuss about; to take into consideration

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to meet someone's requirements; to meet expectations; to go along with what somebody wants

noun:

• (school) class change; class shuffle; rearrangement of which students are in which teacher's class

noun:

• offering to a deity or somebody's spirit
• tribute to a person who is about to depart

noun:

• groove in a shamisen player's fingernail caused by the friction of the string of the instrument ➜ 糸道【いとみち】

noun:

• performing solo (by oneself); having the stage to oneself; being in sole command; eclipsing (outshining) the others; field of activity in which one is unrivaled (unrivalled) - four character idiom

noun:

• the eight kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death, parting from loved ones, meeting disliked ones, not getting what one seeks, pains of the five skandha) - Buddhism term

expression / noun:

• red string of fate; in Chinese-Japanese folklore, fated lovers were said to be joined by an unseen red string, tied around one little finger of each

noun:

• compound ideograph formation (one of the six kanji classifications); making kanji up of meaningful parts (e.g. "mountain pass" is up + down + mountain) ➜ 会意文字

expression:

• one calamity followed close on the heels of another; out of the frying pan into the fire; tiger in front, wolf in the back [literal] - four character idiom

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to fail to hear something; to miss
• to act as if one didn't hear something; to let a remark slide

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to wound; to injure
• to hurt someone's feelings (pride, etc.)
• to damage; to chip; to scratch

noun:

• profile; face in profile; face seen from the side
• (personal) profile; (biographical) sketch; outline (of someone's life)

noun:

• primula (any flower of genus Primula, which includes primroses, cowslips and cyclamens)
• Siebold's primrose (Primula siebold)

expression:

• all's grist that comes to his mill; turn everything to good account; turn anything to profit - proverb ➜ 転んでもただでは起きない

expression:

• all's grist that comes to his mill; turn everything to good account; turn anything to profit - proverb

expression:

• all's grist that comes to his mill; turn everything to good account; turn anything to profit - proverb ➜ 転んでもただでは起きない

expression:

• all's grist that comes to his mill; turn everything to good account; turn anything to profit - proverb ➜ 転んでもただでは起きない

noun:

• small chair for children
• high-chair; tall child's chair, often with a tray for food