expression:

• like begets like; the apple doesn't fall far from the tree; eggplants don't grow on gourd vines [literal] - proverb

noun:

• child (esp. a boy)
• viscount ➜ 子爵
• master (founder of a school of thought, esp. Confucius) - honorific language
• philosophy (branch of Chinese literature); non-Confucian Hundred Schools of Thought writings ➜ 諸子百家
• you (of one's equals) - archaism

suffix noun:

• -er (i.e. a man who spends all his time doing...)

noun:

• hanging; something hanging (i.e. a flap, lappet, etc.)
• sauce for dipping, etc. made from soy sauce, mirin, vinegar and dashi - also タレ - usually written using kana alone
• (in kendo) loin guard
• kanji radical enclosing the top-left corner of a character

suffix noun:

• -ass; -head - used after a noun or na-adjective indicating someone's nature; also ったれ - derogatory term

noun / prefix:

• both (e.g. both shoulders, etc.)

noun:

• ryo (obsolete unit of currency)
• 41-42 g (one sixteenth of a kin) ➜ 斤
• 2 tan (measure of fabric size) ➜ 反【たん】

counter:

• counter for carriages (e.g. in a train); counter for vehicles - also written 輛 and 輌

noun:

• areca palm (Areca catechu)
• betel palm; betel nut tree - colloquialism

noun:

• dojo (hall used for martial arts training)
• manda (place of Buddhist practice or meditation, esp. the place under the bodhi tree where Buddha attained enlightenment) - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 菩提道場

noun / ~する noun:

• shooting (a ball); shot (on basket, at goal, etc.) - Sports term

noun:

• shoot (of a tree or plant)
• chute
• shuuto; shootball; type of pitch commonly used in Japan - Baseball term

noun:

• phoenix (bird of Egyptian mythology) - From Latin
• phoenix (any palm tree of genus Phoenix, incl. the date palm)

noun:

• snowdrop (Galanthus spp.) ➜ スノードロップ
• snow falling like flower petals; snow on a tree resembling a flower
• red snow ➜ 赤雪

noun:

• black tree monitor (Varanus beccarii, species of monitor lizard from the Aru Islands of eastern Indonesia); Beccari's monitor

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to hold fast to one's ways; to be overly conservative; to not get with the times; to guard the tree stub [literal] - from a fable appearing in the Han Feizi - idiom

noun:

• panel; scene-panel
• painted backdrop (panel at the back of a noh stage), on which a pine tree is painted - symbolically a reflection of tree at the front of the stage

noun:

• Canadian serviceberry (Amelanchier canadensis); juneberry; chuckleberry; currant-tree; shadblow; shadbush; shadblow serviceberry; shadbush serviceberry; sugarplum; thicket serviceberry

expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

• to sew a fox's skin to the lion's; to graft a bamboo shoot on a tree [literal] - idiom

noun:

• higan cherry (species of weeping cherry tree, Prunus subhirtella); early-flowering cherry (around the spring equinox) ➜ 江戸彼岸
• double weeping rosebud cherry (Prunus pendula) - colloquialism ➜ 江戸彼岸

noun:

• cherry tree bearing single blossoms; single cherry blossoms

expression / noun:

• match made in heaven; perfect match; great coupling; bush warbler in a plum tree (a common motif in poetry and classical Japanese painting) [literal] - idiom

expression:

• to be unable to accomplish something because one has chosen the wrong method; to ask for the impossible; to look for fish by climbing a tree [literal] - from Mencius - proverb

expression:

• like father, like son; the apple doesn't fall far from the tree; the child of a frog is a frog [literal] - proverb

expression:

• a fox is not taken twice in the same snare; there are no birds in last year's nest; there aren't always loach under the willow tree [literal] - obscure term

expression:

• to be unable to accomplish something because one has chosen the wrong method; to ask for the impossible; to look for fish by climbing a tree (Mencius) [literal] - variant of 木に縁りて... - proverb ➜ 木に縁りて魚を求む【きによりてうおをもとむ】

expression:

• a wise retainer chooses a great lord to serve; a wise bird chooses a good tree in which to roost [literal] - proverb

noun:

• chinaberry; Japanese bead tree (Melia azedarach) - archaism ➜ 栴檀【せんだん】
• light purple outside, green inside; purple outside, light purple inside; type of garment layering color scheme, worn in April and May

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to spout out; to spurt out; to gush out; to jet out
• to sprout; to bud
• to burst into laughter

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to blow (smoke, etc.) - esp. 吹き出す
• to send out shoots (of a tree)

noun / ~の noun:

• artificial product; man-made product; imitation; fake; sham
• fiction

noun:

• decoration (e.g. for a festival)
• theatrical prop (esp. a large prop in noh or kyogen, e.g. tree, well, etc.)
• crop