expression / godan ~ぶ verb:

• to be the subject of attention; to call people's attention; to be the rage; to be of interest

expression:

• dancing fool, watching fool; you're a fool if you dance, and a fool if you just look on; all fools, so let's all dance

noun:

• priest - used at certain shrines, e.g. Ise, Kamo - Shintō term
• member of one of the four administrative ranks in the ritsuryo system - archaism ➜ 四等官
• government official in charge of a town, esp. in Heian Kyoto - archaism
• prominent member of a town - archaism
• river boatman; captain of a riverboat
• (medieval) harbor manager - archaism
• bandit leader; head of a gang of brigands - archaism

expression:

• I have to do something; that's something I have to do - dial. phrase popularized by Miyazaki mayor Hideo Higashikokubaru in 2007 ➜ どうにかして

noun:

• bird's egg (esp. a chicken egg)
• chick; baby bird (esp. a baby chicken)
• eggshell-colored traditional Japanese paper made primarily of Diplomorpha sikokiana fibres (high-quality, glossy) - abbreviation ➜ 鳥の子紙
• eggshell (colour) - abbreviation ➜ 鳥の子色
• red and white oval rice cakes - abbreviation ➜ 鳥の子餅

noun:

• the death of Shakyamuni Buddha - Buddhism term
• Buddhist service held on the day of Buddha's death (orig. 15th of the 2nd month, now 15th of the 3rd month) - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 仏涅槃忌

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be furnished with; to be provided with; to be equipped with
• to be possessed of; to be endowed with; to be gifted with
• to be among; to be one of

noun:

• the empress, the empress dowager and the grand empress dowager ➜ 三后
• emperor's second consort
• empress; palace of the empress
• building of a Shinto shrine built on middle ground
• demesne of the imperial palace ➜ 皇居

noun:

• five flavors (sweet, salty, spicy, sour, bitter); five palates; five tastes
• five flavors (milk at various stages of making ghee: fresh milk, cream, curdled milk, butter, and ghee); "the five periods of the Buddha's teachings" [figurative] - Buddhism term ➜ 五時教

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to associate with; to keep company with; to go out with; to go steady with; to get on with
• to go along with; to follow someone's lead; to accompany someone; to compromise

noun:

• box; case; chest; package; pack; crate
• car (of a train, etc.)
• shamisen case; shamisen
• public building; community building - often written as ハコ - colloquialism ➜ 箱物
• man who carries a geisha's shamisen - archaism ➜ 箱屋
• receptacle for human waste; feces (faeces) - archaism

suffix / counter:

• counter for boxes (or boxed objects)

noun:

• gō; traditional unit of volume, approx. 0.1804 litres
• gō; traditional unit of area, approx 0.33 metres square
• one-tenth of the way from the base to the summit of a mountain
• conjunction - Astronomy term ➜ 衝

counter:

• counter for covered containers
• counter for matches, battles, etc.

expression:

• take care of yourself before you take care of others; wave off your own flies before you wave off somebody else's flies [literal] - proverb

noun:

• blow striking with the flat of the sword
• to slap ➜ 平手打ち
• metal flattened by striking
• tape; flat braid
• type of flat ornamental hairpin made of silver and inscribed with a clan's crest or patterns of birds and flowers ➜ 簪

godan ~ぶ verb / intransitive verb:

• to play; to enjoy oneself; to have a good time
• to mess about (with alcohol, gambling, philandery, etc.)
• to be idle; to do nothing; to be unused
• to go to (for pleasure or for study) - as 〜に遊ぶ
• to intentionally throw a ball to lower the batter's concentration - Baseball term

noun:

• prajna; wisdom required to attain enlightenment - Buddhism term - From Sanskrit "prajñā"
• noh mask of a grinning, horned demoness (represents a woman's rage and jealousy) ➜ 般若面【はんにゃめん】
• family crest designed after the Hannya noh mask
• dreadful face (esp. of a woman driven mad by jealousy); terrifying facial expression - abbreviation ➜ 般若面【はんにゃづら】

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

expression:

• the good you do for others is good you do yourself; those who are kind benefit themselves; compassion is not for other people's benefit [literal] - proverb
• you can't save others (from themselves) - incorrect usage - proverb

noun:

• jar; pot; vase
• dice cup
• depression (i.e. the basin of a waterfall)
• target (when aiming an arrow) - archaism
• (figurative) bull's-eye - usually written using kana alone ➜ 思うつぼ
• key point (of a conversation, etc.) - usually written using kana alone
• acupuncture point; moxibustion point - usually written using kana alone
• nodes on a fingerboard (of a shamisen, etc.) - often ツボ - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• flock from a vine-seed weed, used for face powder, and believed to promote desire and happiness
• animal from popular folklore with a white fluffy down made from dandelions and a rabbit's tail resembling a fluffy hairball

noun:

• bedding; bed - archaism ➜ 枕席

noun / ~する noun:

• to sleep together in the same bed - archaism
• to sleep together using each other's bodies as pillow - archaism
• to sleep together using books as a pillow - archaism

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to stick; to paste; to affix - esp. 貼る

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb / transitive:

• to stretch; to spread; to strain; to tighten; to put up (tent)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to form (e.g. ice on a pond)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb / transitive:

• to fill; to swell

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to stick out; to put; to slap

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be expensive

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to keep a watch on; to be on the lookout

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to become one tile away from completion ［張る］ - Mahjong term ➜ テンパる・聴牌

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to span; to generate - Mathematics term

expression:

• it is darkest under the lamp post; it's hard to see what is under your nose; go abroad to hear of home; you must go into the country to hear what news at London - proverb

noun / counter:

• mountain; hill
• mine (e.g. coal mine)
• heap; pile

noun:

• crown (of a hat); thread (of a screw); tread (of a tire); protruding part of an object
• climax; peak; critical point
• guess; speculation
• criminal case; crime - used by policemen, crime reporters, etc.
• mountain climbing; mountaineering
• festival float (esp. one mounted with a decorative halberd) ➜ 山鉾
• wall; wall tile - Mahjong term
• temple; temple grounds - archaism

prefix noun:

• wild

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to cover (with something); to put on (e.g. on someone else's head); to plate something (with a metal); to pour or dash a liquid (on something); to charge (a person with a guilt)