expression:

• for mercy's sake; for the love of God; for goodness' sake

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be ready to cry; to be on the point of tears ➜ べそをかく

expression / noun:

• having no outstanding characteristics; all seeming about the same; bragging competition concerning matters of little importance; pissing contest; height comparison among acorns [literal] - idiom

noun:

• scalloped bonnethead (Sphyrna corona, little-known species of hammerhead shark found in the eastern Pacific from southern Mexico to northern Peru)

expression:

• people will believe something false if many agree that it is true (an example of argumentum ad populum); there's a tiger in the market [literal] - proverb

noun:

• event in which someone is forced to eat a large quantity of rice (e.g. the April 2nd Shugendō ceremony at Nikko's Rinnōji temple)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to illuminate; to shine a light on; to light up

expression / adverb:

• by hook or by crook; by all possible means - idiom

noun:

• Okinawa rubble goby (Trimma okinawae); red-spotted dwarfgoby; orange-red goby; Okinawa pygmy-goby

noun:

• quality of material for assisting arousal during masturbation - from シコる and クオリティ - manga slang ➜ お菜【おかず】

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to carry to extremes; to go to the end of something - esp. 極める, 窮める
• to investigate thoroughly; to master - esp. 究める

noun:

• dark figure (esp. of crime); dark number; hidden figure; difference between the actual and reported figure

noun:

• missed-program webcast; webcast of a serialized TV show (after the TV broadcast); catch-up TV

noun:

• man in good health between 21 and 60 years of age to whom applied various corvee and taxes (under the ritsuryo system)

expression:

• it is easier to do something than worry about it; the anxiety that comes from doing nothing is worse than any danger you might face; fear overruns the danger; an attempt is sometimes easier than expected; it is easier to bear (a child) than to worry about it [literal] - proverb

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be ready to cry; to be on the point of tears

noun:

• real world; outside world (e.g. the world outside of school)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to perform anal sex; to bugger; to sodomize; to sodomise - colloquialism - vulgar ➜ お釜を掘る
• to crash one's car into the back of another

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to balance; to counterpoise
• to remain unchanged
• to share (e.g. the expense); to bear (part of)

noun / ~する noun:

• skirmish; brush (with the enemy); small fight with a military enemy
• squabble; quarrel; brief argument; exchange of words

noun:

• palace
• tonic (of the Japanese & Chinese pentatonic scale) ➜ 五音
• ancient Chinese punishment (castration for men, or confinement for women) - abbreviation ➜ 宮刑

noun / suffix noun:

• zodiacal sign ➜ 十二宮

noun:

• priest who was also a street performer and performed prayers and other religious duties for the sake of other people

noun:

• tiles matching both the round wind and one's seat wind - Mahjong term ➜ 圏風牌・門風牌
• pung (or kong) of these tiles (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 役牌

noun:

• official size of a tatami mat for measuring room size (esp. a Kyoto-size tatami mat) ➜ 京間
• basic rhythm (in traditional Japanese music) - Music term
• room (in a brothel) of a prostitute of the highest rank - archaism

noun:

• Om; Aun; syllable representing the primordial trinity of Vishnu, Shiva and Brahma - From Sanskrit
• inspiration and expiration; respiration; alpha and omega