expression / noun:

• Now let's return to the main subject; To return from the digression,.. (in a conversation, speech, or story-telling) - four character idiom

expression / adjective:

• shrewd; smart (and wide-awake); cunning; crafty
• inedible; uneatable
• unable to support oneself; unable to keep body and soul together

suffix:

• far from; anything but; not at all
• let alone; to say nothing of; not to speak of; much less

noun:

• clearance hole (hole for a bolt, screw, etc., which is large enough to allow the thread, etc. to pass through)

noun:

• Pindola; Pindola Bharadvaja (one of four Arhats asked by the Buddha to remain in the world to propagate Buddhist law) - Buddhism term

expression:

• follow the person to your right (command to form a line)
• following someone's example; imitating someone; following suit

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to run out of sake; to be out of sake; to run out of alcohol

noun:

• aphid; plant louse
• cockroach - Kansai dialect ➜ ゴキブリ
• Japanese house bat (Pipistrellus abramus) - obscure term ➜ 油蝙蝠
• hanger-on; parasite
• visitor to a red-light district who's only there to look - archaism

noun:

• quick response code (2-dimensional bar code commonly used by Japanese mobile phones to link to URLs); QR code

expression:

• because of this; thanks to this; due to this

noun / ~する noun:

• throwing oneself to one's death; precipitating oneself to one's death; leaping to one's death ➜ 投身自殺

noun / ~する noun:

• throwing oneself to one's death; precipitating oneself to one's death; leaping to one's death ➜ 投身

noun:

• sword hilt shaped similar to the handle of a vajra - archaism ➜ 金剛杵
• plain, wooden sword hilt (as opposed to those wrapped in sharkskin)

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to err and not change one's ways, this is what it is to err (from Analects of Confucius)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be robbed of one's due; to have one's fried tofu snatched by a black kite [literal] ➜ 鳶

noun:

• pad placed below the sheet on which a seal is to be pressed - used to make the seal's imprint clearer

noun:

• wait to turn either of two pairs into a three-of-a-kind to finish one's hand - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ シャンポン待ち【シャンポンまち】

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to have (e.g. lunch); to take (e.g. vitamins) ➜ 取る

expression:

• having to be; must be; should be; ought to be ➜ である・なければならない

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to fall in public esteem; to fall in value (stocks)

godan ~す verb:

• to ride (a horse) back; to drive (a car) back

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to play a leading role; to play a central part

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be out of resources; to run out of stock

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to drink oneself dead drunk; to drink oneself unconscious

noun / ~の noun:

• (sitting) knee-to-knee; face-to-face