noun / ~する noun:

• pioneer; leader; taking the initiative; forerunner; harbinger; herald
• leading an attack; charging ahead of others (towards the enemy)

noun:

• reduced-period procedure; curtailed operation - From English "short time"
• short homeroom (at the beginning and end of the school day) - From English "short time"

noun:

• decorative gauze strap that hangs from the front left side of the kohimo when tying closed one's hanpi ➜ 小紐

noun:

• sailing windward
• land division in the Ryukyu Kingdom equivalent to modern prefectures (but the size of cities or towns) - obsolete term ➜ 村

noun:

• tending to find things bothersome; person who tends to find most things bothersome

expression / adverb:

• to a surprising degree; to a remarkable extent; surprisingly; astonishingly; amazingly; alarmingly

noun / ~する noun:

• reading in a monotone
• reading a Chinese classical text without translating it into Japanese

noun:

• live fish and shellfish (kept in a tank in a restaurant)

noun:

• owner of a hermitage; abbess; prioress; nun in charge of a Buddhist convent

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to extract (e.g. a passage from a book); to make an excerpt

expression / noun:

• a fish large enough to swallow a whole boat
• great man; notorious man - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• gaining admission into a school in a school district other than one's own - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• promoting a product or service; appealing to consumers; solicitation (of business); pushing a product

noun:

• spirit of a true artisan; (a craftsman's) pride in one's work - four character idiom

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to continue for a long time; to undergo a repeated series

noun:

• nurse call; a patient's call button in a hospital

godan ~う verb:

• to crowd together in a confined space; to gather and make a commotion

noun:

• a single tree or blade of grass; every stick and stone (of a place) - four character idiom

noun:

• mid-boss (of a video game, etc.); underboss (of a criminal organization)

expression:

• show me a liar, and I will show you a thief - proverb

noun:

• (ornamental) tip of a scabbard ［鐺・璫・小尻］
• bottom of a bargeboard or cantilever ［鐺・璫・木尻］

noun:

• eave-end roof tile (comprising a convex semi-cylindrical tile and a decorative pendant) ➜ 丸瓦・瓦当

noun:

• eave-end roof tile (comprising a convex semi-cylindrical tile and a decorative pendant) - archaism ➜ 軒丸瓦

suffix:

• indicates storeys, structures, or materials used in a building
• indicates denomination (after a currency)

pronoun:

• that way (direction distant from both speaker and listener); over there; yonder ➜ 何方【どちら】・此方【こちら】・其方
• that one (something physically distant from both speaker and listener, or something not visible but known by both speaker and listener); that
• that person (someone physically distant from both speaker and listener, or someone not present but known by both speaker and listener) - あちら is pol.
• there (place distant from both speaker and listener); over there; foreign country (esp. a Western nation)