noun:

• first song or chirp, etc. (in the year) of a particular bird or insect species

noun:

• book or scroll that has been handed down through generations; book of secrets
• delivering a letter

noun:

• garden eel; conger eel (esp. the common Japanese conger, Conger myriaster)

noun:

• calling another player's discarded tile to complete a meld (but not to complete one's hand) - Mahjong term
• declaring a kong or calling a discarded tile to complete a meld - Mahjong term

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to ask; to inquire; to hear; to be told - humble language
• to implore (a god for an oracle); to seek direction (from your superior)

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to visit - humble language
• to speak to (a large crowd at a theatre, etc.) - from 御機嫌を伺う

expression:

• sleep brings up a child well; a well-slept child is a well-kept child - proverb

noun:

• role of a villain (film, drama, etc.); bad-guy role; social outcast role

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to dash off (a piece of writing); to scribble; to scrawl

godan ~る verb:

• to tattle; to tell on; to inform a superior of someone's actions - colloquialism

noun:

• member (esp. of a criminal organization); gang member; gangster; yakuza; crime syndicate member

expression:

• by a strange coincidence; in an unexpected turn of events; by chance; by accident

expression:

• You must seize every golden opportunity; Strike while the iron is hot; When you find a rare good buy, seize upon it for a future sale at a much higher price - four character idiom

noun:

• WARM BIZ (Japanese government campaign encouraging companies to set their heater thermostats to 20 degrees Celsius over the winter) ➜ クールビズ

noun:

• person whose physical suitability for conscription in the former Japanese military could not be determined in that year (e.g. due to illness)

godan ~す verb:

• to fire a gun; to let off a gun; to loose off a shell

noun:

• New Komeito (Japanese political party); New Clean Government Party; Justice Party

noun:

• rugosa rose (Rosa rugosa); Japanese rose; Ramanas rose

godan ~る verb:

• to slam into (e.g. a wall, a limit) (figuratively); to hit
• to face (e.g. trouble, a problem); to confront

noun:

• establishing something (e.g. a company or a religious order) by oneself; company or religious order founded in such a way - obscure term

noun:

• city pop; Japanese music genre popular in the 1980's

noun / ~する noun:

• indirect translation; translation of a translation

adverb / ~の noun:

• for a short while; for a brief period; soon; in a short while

noun / suffix noun:

• line; stripe; stria
• line (e.g. telephone line); wire
• ray (e.g. X-ray); beam ➜ Ｘ線
• line (e.g. of a railroad); track; route; lane
• outline; contours; form
• level
• division
• line (of action); position; approach; policy; principle ➜ いい線
• impression one leaves; air one gives off ➜ 線が太い・線が細い

noun:

• horse mackerel (Carangidae spp., esp. the Japanese horse mackerel, Trachurus japonicus); jack mackerel; pompano; scad

noun:

• 16,800,000-year period over which a human lifespan increases from ten years to 84,000 years (by one year per century) and then decreases back to ten (by one year per century) - Buddhism term