noun:

• castle and moat; castle's moat - obscure term
• City God (Taoist guardian god of a city)

noun:

• Movement for Civic Rights and Freedom (Meiji era); Freedom and People's Rights Movement

expression:

• if that's the case; that being the case ➜ だと

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hold down; to twist someone's arm
• to force (someone) to yield (e.g. an argument); to make (someone) surrender

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to understand everything from only one part; to be perceptive; to be quick to understand; to be quick on the uptake - idiom

noun:

• ritual music and dancing in shrines and temples
• rice dance; rice festival
• tofu (or fish, etc.) baked and coated with miso - abbreviation - Food term ➜ 田楽焼き
• turning something in the manner one would use to cook dengaku-doufu on both sides - abbreviation ➜ 田楽返し

adverb / pronoun:

• this and that; this or that; one thing or another; this way and that

adverb:

• around; about; round about; roughly; nearly; almost ［かれこれ］

expression:

• every man knows his own business best; one should go to specialists for the best results; for rice cakes, (go to) the rice cake shop [literal] - proverb ➜ 餠

expression:

• one should not leave things unfinished; when a young Mencius returned home during the middle of school, his mother cut off the cloth she had been weaving on the loom to admonish him for stopping his studies midway - proverb ➜ 断機

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to stand in the way; to bar someone's way; to block the way

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to cling to ... in tears; to beg ... in tears; to appeal; to throw oneself on someone's mercy

expression:

• if you please; if you don't mind; when you're ready; if you want; if that's alright with you

noun / ~する noun:

• spending one night ahead (e.g. at a hotel near the airport the night before catching a flight); spending the night before ➜ 後泊【こうはく】

noun:

• part of the fabric that is wrapped farthest from the skin when wearing a garment that is wrapped in front of one (such as a kimono) ➜ 下前
• percentage; commission ➜ 上米【うわまい】

expression:

• don't lend money to a man who doesn't have an erection in the morning (because he's not healthy and might die before he can repay) - archaism - proverb

noun:

• Balcony of Appearances; balcony where the imperial family appears before the public
• (sports) interview platform; winner's platform; rostrum - colloquialism
• dancing platform (in a disco) - slang

noun:

• study of the English language as a means to acquire Western knowledge (esp. after the end of Japan's period of isolation)
• English literature; British studies

noun:

• K; k

prefix:

• kilo - abbreviation ➜ キロ

suffix:

• kelvin - abbreviation ➜ ケルビン
• karat (measure of purity of gold); carat - abbreviation ➜ カラット

noun:

• potassium (K) - abbreviation ➜ カリウム
• king (playing card rank) - abbreviation

prefix:

• Köchel (catalogue of Mozart's music)​ - abbreviation ➜ ケッヘル番号【ケッヘルばんごう】

noun:

• kitchen - abbreviation ➜ キッチン

noun:

• United States of America; USA ➜ アメリカ合衆国
• United States Army; U.S. Army; USA ➜ アメリカ陸軍

noun:

• Raggiana bird-of-paradise (Paradisaea raggiana); Count Raggi's bird-of-paradise

godan ~く verb:

• to beat vigorously; to rain strikes upon someone; to tan someone's hide; to mercilessly pummel; to beat the daylights out of

godan ~く verb:

• to wear on the head - archaism
• to have cloth, clothing, etc. bestowed upon one by their lord or master; to wear such cloth on the left shoulder
• to be injured

expression:

• all men are alike; all lives are alike; all men live and die; we all bleed the same; a pike conger has one life, a shrimp does too [literal] - proverb

noun:

• Zen monk's waistcoat (short, informal kasaya) - archaism ➜ 袈裟・絡子【らくす】
• ring (usu. made of ivory) attached to this waistcoat
• netsuke; item attached to a netsuke ➜ 根付け

noun:

• red Fuji; when Mt Fuji appears red because of the sun's rays (esp. in the early morning from late summer to early autumn)