noun:

• taking care of someone

noun / ~の noun:

• lack of sleep

noun:

• loss-of-coolant accident; LOCA

noun:

• loss of a match that is 'called' part way into the game

noun:

• eye of a needle
• hole ［針孔］ - dialectal ➜ 穴【あな】

noun:

• celebration of the completion of a temple or shrine's construction

noun:

• assembly at the end of the day (at a company or school, etc.) ➜ 朝礼【ちょうれい】

noun:

• natural rights of man - four character idiom

noun:

• central pillar of a pagoda; shinbashira
• leader of the Tenri religion ［真柱］

noun / ~する noun:

• all things being in flux through the endless circle of birth, death, and rebirth; the circle of transmigration - four character idiom

expression:

• speaking of ➜ と言えば

noun:

• throwing of mochi to an assembled crowd, esp. during the framework-raising ceremony of a new building ➜ 餅まき

noun:

• state of national emergency

noun:

• tincture of camphor

noun / ~する noun:

• tucking up the hem of one's garments ➜ 尻端折り

suffix:

• country of origin; ethnicity

noun:

• registration of livestock

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to pluck the strings of an instrument; to strum

noun:

• use of blue eyebrow pencil to indicate a character has shaved his cheeks (in kabuki)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to signal the winner of a match (by the referee raising his fan towards the winner) - Sumo term
• to declare someone the winner (of a competition)

noun:

• list of passengers; passenger manifest; passenger register

noun:

• poem of four lines, each of five (Chinese) characters - four character idiom

noun / adverbial noun:

• flash of lightning; flash of a sword; brandishing a sword - four character idiom

noun:

• the economic boom of the mid-1950s - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to achieve one's first victory after a string of losses - Sumo term