adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• scraping; scratching - onomatopoeia

~の noun / adjectival noun:

• hard (to the bite, to the touch) - onomatopoeia

expression / noun:

• all the gods and goddesses; all the deities - Shintō term ➜ 八百万【やおよろず】

noun:

• hill; height; knoll; rising ground ［丘・岡・壟］
• bonus points awarded to the winner at the end of a game ［丘・陸符］ - usually written using kana alone - Mahjong term

noun / ~する noun:

• pioneer; leader; taking the initiative; forerunner; harbinger; herald
• leading an attack; charging ahead of others (towards the enemy)

noun:

• reduced-period procedure; curtailed operation - From English "short time"
• short homeroom (at the beginning and end of the school day) - From English "short time"

noun / ~する noun:

• make a choice among many; select the good (desirable, necessary, relevant) and discard the rest; decision to adopt or reject - four character idiom

noun:

• wooden plane with a convex base curved both along the direction of cutting and across the blade ➜ 反台鉋

noun:

• person who estimates the variety and quantity of wood necessary to build a house from looking at the plans

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• starting in advance; starting first; going first; going ahead ➜ 後発
• starting (in team sports) - Sports term

expression:

• very fond of; more fond of than eating; so fond of that someone would rather not eat than go without; more important than three meals a day ➜ 三度の飯より好き【さんどのめしよりすき】

noun:

• Chinese courtesy name (name formerly given to adult Chinese men, used in place of their given name in formal situations)
• nickname
• section of a village

expression / adjective:

• having no hesitation in stating; having no hesitation in declaring

noun / ~する noun:

• chanting in a loud voice; singing in a loud voice

expression:

• now that it's come to this; since it's come to this

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to draw back; to sink; to cave in
• to be set back (e.g. from a road)
• to withdraw (e.g. from the public eye); to retire to (somewhere); to stay indoors; to butt out; to stay out of it

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to divide in two; to divide in half
• to apportion; to divide among; to portion out; to allot; to assign

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to grow hot (e.g. water); to boil
• to get excited (at); to erupt (in applause, cheering, etc.); to be in a ferment; to take place energetically
• to ferment
• to melt (of metal)

noun / ~の noun:

• single ➜ ダブル
• single bed; hotel room with a single bed - abbreviation ➜ シングルベッド
• single-breasted
• single-cuffed
• single width (of cloth; usu. 0.71 meters) - abbreviation ➜ シングル幅
• singles (e.g. in tennis) - abbreviation - Sports term ➜ シングルス

noun:

• single - abbreviation - Baseball term ➜ シングルヒット
• single-figure handicap (in golf) - Sports term ➜ シングルプレーヤー
• shingle

expression / adjectival noun:

• woman's word for the sound of feet thumping across a noh theatre; space of noh theatre based on the reach of the sound of feet thumping - female language

noun:

• driving off birds
• procession held at the New Year to chase away the birds for the year, with children singing songs as the villagers walked from house to house
• female street musician who wore a braided hat and carried a shamisen
• street entertainer who appeared on New Year's eve and performed with a fan

noun:

• sentence
• composition; text; writings
• the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts); academia; literature ➜ 武
• statement - IT term

noun:

• crane (any bird of the family Gruidae, esp. the red-crowned crane, Grus japonensis)

noun:

• weather; look of the sky
• situation; turn of affairs; signs; way the wind is blowing

noun:

• Menshevik; member of the non-Leninist wing of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party - From Russian "Men'sheviki" ➜ ボルシェビキ

noun / ~する noun:

• raising the level (of); boosting; improving; improvement; rising to the next level - From English "level up"