noun:

• novel about one's education, spiritual growth, etc,; coming-of-age story; Bildungsroman - From German ➜ 教養小説【きょうようしょうせつ】

godan -いく／-ゆく verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to go; to move (in a direction or towards a specific location); to head (towards); to be transported (towards); to reach ➜ 来る【くる】
• to proceed; to take place - い sometimes omitted in auxiliary use ➜ 旨く行く
• to pass through; to come and go
• to walk
• to die; to pass away ［逝く］
• to do (in a specific way)
• to stream; to flow

auxiliary verb:

• to continue

godan -いく／-ゆく verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to have an orgasm; to come; to cum - usually written using kana alone
• to trip; to get high; to have a drug-induced hallucination - usually written using kana alone - slang

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to adopt (method, proposal, etc.); to take (measure, course of action, etc.); to decide on
• to pick (e.g. flowers); to gather (e.g. mushrooms); to catch (e.g. insects)
• to extract (e.g. juice); to take (e.g. a sample)
• to assume (an attitude)
• to take on (workers, students); to employ; to hire
• to draw in (e.g. water); to let in (e.g. light from a window)

adjectival noun / adverbial noun / noun:

• very hard; with utmost effort; with all one's might; for dear life - four character idiom ➜ 一所懸命

noun:

• pair of compasses; compass (for drawing circles, etc.) - From Dutch
• (mariner's) compass
• legs; step; gait

noun:

• weight
• weight (e.g. of someone's words); burden; grandeur; dignity
• importance; significance

noun / ~する noun:

• percussion; tapping; examining by percussion - Medicine term
• sounding out (someone's intentions); making an approach (about)

noun / ~する noun:

• opening; aperture (e.g. camera)
• opening one's mouth; beginning to speak

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• open; broad

noun / ~する noun:

• mass for the dead; Buddhist service held on the anniversary of someone's death

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to take advantage (of somebody's weaknesses, carelessness, etc.); to impose on

noun:

• captive; prisoner
• victim (of love, etc.); slave (to one's lust, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• changing one's attitude; turning over a new leaf; getting a fresh start - four character idiom

noun:

• futon or cloth attached to the kotatsu's frame; cover for kotatsu

noun:

• (one's) initials; first letter (of a name, sentence, etc.)

noun / ~の noun:

• initial; first

noun:

• coverall apron (esp. for cooking, cleaning, and household chores); cook's apron

noun:

• (something resembling a) goose's neck
• glans; head of a penis

noun:

• something (equipped) with legs
• sole of foot
• one's manner of walking

noun:

• pot - polite language ➜ 釜
• volcanic crater
• (one's) buttocks
• male homosexual; effeminate man; male transvestite - often derog. - usually written using kana alone - colloquialism

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to go downhill (e.g. for one's business); to be badly off (economically) ➜ 左前

ichidan verb:

• to steal a glance; to intercept and read (e.g. other people's email)

noun:

• everybody's friend; person who is affable to everybody - oft. used derogatively
• flawlessly beautiful woman; flawless beauty

noun:

• focus of one's attention; what one is looking for ➜ 目の付け所

noun:

• side; flank ➜ 横腹【よこばら】
• illegitimate child; child born by someone other than one's wife

noun / ~する noun:

• bathing; washing one's body or hair; ablution
• receiving a blessing; receiving an honor

expression:

• some prefer nettles; there's no accounting for taste; every man to his taste - proverb