noun / ~する noun:

• rehabilitation; remaking one's life; starting life anew
• rebirth; regeneration; reorganization; rebuilding; recovery; restoration; remaking
• coming back to life; revival; resuscitation

expression / ichidan verb:

• to use up all of one's energy and willpower; to be exhausted (and have no will to go on)

noun:

• redology; study of the novel Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin, one of China's four great classical novels

noun / ~する noun:

• coming down from one's seat and prostrating oneself (to pay obeisance)

noun:

• musicians' box on the left side of the stage
• lower seat ➜ 下座【しもざ】

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• fully satisfied; well satisfied (e.g. with an explanation or apology); to have one's heart completely cleared of doubt or grudge

noun:

• deserted house; ruined house

noun / ~する noun:

• abolishing one's own family line in order to join another (under pre-1947 Japanese law); extinct family

noun:

• taste (in goods, etc.)
• manners; etiquette
• modesty; restraint; prudence
• knowledge, experience (of the arts, etc.); accomplishments
• taking care of one's personal appearance

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to be temperate in; to refrain; to abstain; to hold back; to restrain oneself from excessive ...
• to make notes; to jot down (e.g. phone number)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be in preparation for; to be in waiting for
• to be soon; to be in the offing

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to be in a close relationship (e.g. as a backer, etc.)

noun / ~の noun:

• bittersweet; having mingled feelings of joy and sorrow; joy and sorrow alternating in one's heart - four character idiom

noun:

• having free time to spare in the midst of busyness; leisure in the intervals of one's work - four character idiom

noun:

• using the Chinese-reading of kanji to represent native Japanese words (irrespective of the kanji's actual meaning) ➜ 万葉仮名

noun:

• moon snail (Naticidae spp.); moon shell
• Marten's pearl oyster (Pinctada fucata martensii); Akoya pearl oyster ➜ 阿古屋貝

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to run at full speed; to run and run
• to try one's hardest

noun:

• family registry (of the district); original of one's family register; archive of family registers

noun:

• American shrew mole (Neurotrichus gibbsii); Gibb's shrew mole; least shrew mole

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun / adjectival noun:

• unsteadily (e.g. on one's feet); shakily; staggering; reeling; tottering; dizzily - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• wandering; wavering; aimlessly; without knowing what one is doing; having no goal in mind - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• omitting crucial steps; cutting corners; skimping
• intentional negligence
• tenuki; taking the initiative by ignoring the opponent's last move and playing somewhere else (in go)

noun:

• cloud ear mushroom (Auricularia auricula-judae); wood ear mushroom; Jew's ear mushroom

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to be upset; to be flurried; to be frightened (out of one's wits)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to let leak; to reveal
• to wet one's pants
• to give utterance; to vent; to express
• to omit; to leave out

noun / ~の noun:

• veteran; (someone) schooled by adversity in many battles; (someone) rich in life's experience gained through much adversity - four character idiom

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to peep (through); to peek; to examine (esp. covertly)
• to await (one's chance)
• to guess; to infer; to gather; to surmise - usu. used passively

noun:

• bed hair; hair disarranged during sleep
• habit of moving around in one's sleep; sleeping habit

expression / adjective:

• having one's back to the wall; having nowhere to go; having no way out; not having another chance - idiom

expression:

• the husband is always the last to know; everyone knows of the wife's infidelity but the cuckolded husband - idiom