noun:

• direction; way - also ほう
• person; lady; gentleman - honorific language

noun / suffix noun:

• method of; manner of; way of

suffix noun:

• care of ...
• person in charge of ... - also がた
• side (e.g. "on my mother's side") - also がた

noun:

• voice
• singing (of a bird); chirping (of an insect); hoot
• voice; opinion (as expressed in words); view; wish; attitude; will
• sound
• sense (of something's arrival); feeling - usu. as ～の声を聞く
• voice; voiced sound - Linguistics term

noun:

• large cut (e.g. of meat) ［大切り・大切］
• last piece of the day's programme; last act of a play; comic dialogue as the last item in vaudeville, music hall, etc.

noun:

• 180.39 millilitres; 180.39 milliliters ➜ 合【ごう】
• 0.3306 square metres; 0.3306 square meters ➜ 合【ごう】
• one-tenth of the way (from the foot of a mountain to the top) ➜ 合【ごう】

expression:

• walk a mile in other's shoes to understand their suffering; you can't appreciate others' suffering until you've gone through it yourself; pinch yourself and know others' pain [literal] - proverb

noun:

• stag seaweed (Codium fragile); green sea fingers; dead man's fingers; felty fingers; forked felt-alga; sponge seaweed; green sponge; green fleece; oyster thief

noun:

• oni; ogre; demon
• spirit of a deceased person ➜ 亡魂
• ogre-like person (i.e. fierce, relentless, merciless, etc.) ［おに］
• it (in a game of tag, hide-and-seek, etc.) ［おに］ ➜ 鬼ごっこ【おにごっこ】
• Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) ［き］ - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿・朱雀【すざく】

prefix:

• very; extremely; super- ［おに］ - slang ➜ 超

noun:

• sword-bearer (subordinate whose job it is to hold their master's sword)
• rikishi carrying a sword who follows the yokozuna to the ring during his ring-entering ceremony - Sumo term

noun:

• hard-liners; diehards; hawks

noun / adjectival noun:

• (young) man with traditionally masculine interests; tough boy; man's man

noun:

• hard news; reporter who covers political and economic affairs

noun / adjectival noun:

• strait-laced type (with respect to relationships)

noun:

• bullish traders

expression / ichidan verb:

• to frustrate (e.g. someone's plans); to give someone a surprise; to give someone a blow; to scare the hell out of

noun / ~する noun:

• payment of a sum twice the original; giving back a gift double the value of the one received; repaying twofold
• inflicting a revenge twice as hurtful (painful, costly, etc.) as the original misdeed

noun:

• "Helping Hands" comedy performance; performance in which one person wears a haori on their shoulders, while another person behind them puts their arms through the sleeves of the haori and feeds the person in front ➜ 羽織

noun:

• nine gates; winning hand composed of 1-1-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-9-9 of the same suit plus one additional tile of the same suit - Mahjong term

noun:

• written work (esp. a bound text, as opposed to a scroll)
• a text written entirely in kana
• graphic novel (esp. one created between the 12th and 19th centuries)
• notebook (for practicing kana, drawing pictures, etc.)
• rough draft

noun:

• moon (esp. full moon)
• circle fashioned after the moon
• decorative ring on the chest of a monk's stole ➜ 袈裟
• straw trivet
• white crescent-shaped chest patch of an Asiatic black bear ➜ 月の輪熊

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to create a breeding ground for future problems; to turn a blind eye to future trouble; to allow for something to come back and bite one in the ass (in the future)

noun:

• décolleté; décolletage; the part of a woman's chest and back exposed by a low neckline - From French
• robe décolletée; low-cut dress - abbreviation - From French ➜ ローブデコルテ

noun / ~の noun:

• low-cut (neckline style); décolleté - From French

adverb / suffix:

• throne; crown; (nobleman's) seat - orig. from 座居, meaning "seat"
• government position; court rank ➜ 位階
• social standing; rank; class; echelon; rung

noun:

• grade (of quality, etc.); level; tier; rank
• digit (e.g. the tens, the hundreds, etc.); place ➜ 桁
• degree; extent; amount ➜ どの位

adverb / ~と adverb:

• with a clatter; with a rattle - onomatopoeia

~の noun / adjectival noun:

• empty; bare; uninhabited; vacant; unoccupied - onomatopoeia
• raspy (voice); gravelly; husky - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• with a gargle - onomatopoeia

~する noun / adverb:

• rough (personality, speech, etc.); unreserved; outspoken; boorish; ill-mannered - onomatopoeia

noun:

• rattle (e.g. baby's toy) - onomatopoeia

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to use completely; to use up; to exhaust
• to exhaust somebody's civility; to give up (on someone) ➜ 愛想を尽かす

expression:

• all is well that ends well; it will all come good in the end - proverb

noun:

• All's Well That Ends Well (play by Shakespeare)

noun:

• presumption of legitimacy; presumption of child in wedlock; presumption that the ex-husband is the father of a woman's child born within 300 days of their divorce - Law term

noun / expression:

• five races under one union; founding principle of the Republic of China (Han, Manchurians, Mongolians, Hui, Tibetans) - four character idiom
• harmony of the five races; official policy of Manchukuo (Manchurians, Han, Mongolians, Koreans, Japanese) ［五族協和］ - four character idiom

noun:

• beast (i.e. any animal other than man)
• person reborn into the animal realm - Buddhism term ➜ 畜生道
• brute (i.e. a contemptible human being)

interjection:

• damn it; damn; Christ; for Christ's sake - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• Hundred Schools of Thought; general term for the large number of scholars and controversialists, and their respective schools, that flourished during China's Spring and Autumn period and Warring States period - four character idiom