noun:

• Lady Luck

expression / noun:

• in front of one's eyes; just nearby; within a stone's throw

expression / noun:

• in front of one's eyes; just nearby; within a stone's throw ➜ 目と鼻の先【めとはなのさき】

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to depend on somebody else's (financial) support (usu. one's parents') ➜ 親のすねをかじる

noun:

• passing food from one person's chopsticks to another's (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• trying to reach above one's station and failing; trying to accomplish something beyond one's abilities and failing; monkey trying to catch the moon (and drowning) [literal] - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• slamming one's hand into the wall in front of somebody (e.g. to stop them from leaving; often viewed as romantic) - slang
• banging on the wall (e.g. to quieten one's neighbour) - colloquialism

noun / ~の noun:

• putting one's life on the line; giving everything one has got; acting out of desperation

noun:

• pushing away food one does not want to eat with one's chopsticks (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• well-cured sake; last year's sake; old sake

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to have one's hair cut; to cut one's hair

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to try and reach above one's station and fail; to try and accomplish something beyond one's abilities and fail; a monkey tries to catch the moon (and drowns) [literal] - idiom ➜ 猿猴捉月

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be good (at); to go well - from 行ける
• to look (taste, etc.) good
• to hold one's liquor; to be able to hold one's drink

godan ~る verb / expression:

• to create a debt in one's favor (e.g. by doing someone a favor); to create an obligation in one's favor

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb / transitive:

• to give one's name (as); to introduce oneself (as)
• to claim to be; to call oneself; to wear the title of
• to reveal oneself (as); to admit to being

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to adopt as one's name; to take (a name)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to call out the goods one is selling - archaism

noun:

• retirement home; old people's home; senior citizens' home

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to roll in; to tumble into; to visit (esp. to stay overnight as an unwanted guest); to come to live with
• to fall in one's way; to fall into one's lap

noun:

• iai; art of drawing one's sword, cutting down one's opponent and sheathing the sword afterwards ➜ 居合い
• iai sword-drawing performance (used during the Edo period to sell medicine and other wares)

noun:

• lady attendant; maid

noun:

• lady-in-waiting

noun:

• noblewoman; lady - obscure term

pronoun:

• you - referring to a woman; epistolary style - honorific language

noun:

• court lady

noun / adjectival noun:

• aunt - Kansai dialect
• middle-aged lady

noun:

• attractive mature lady

expression:

• for (e.g. "she dances well for an eight-year old"); considering it's (something or someone)