adjectival noun / noun / ~の noun:

• cylindrical container (pot, vase, etc.)
• having no waist (straight body figure, not curvy); being stumpy
• sleeveless (coat etc.)

adjective:

• hard; solid; tough - esp. 固い and 堅い for wood, 硬い for metal and stone
• stiff; tight; wooden; unpolished (e.g. writing)
• strong; firm (not viscous or easily moved)
• safe; steady; honest; steadfast
• obstinate; stubborn
• bookish; formal; stuffy Antonym: 砕けた

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to spill; to fall out of; to overflow
• to peek through; to become visible (although normally not)
• to escape (of a smile, tear, etc.)

noun / suffix noun:

• hole - also read めど for this sense ➜ 穴が開く
• deficit; shortage; missing person (in a team, meeting, etc.)
• vacancy; opening
• flaw
• profitable place (or item, etc.) not well known by others
• upset victory (with a large payoff)
• pit (of a theater) - slang ➜ 平土間
• hiding place - archaism
• underbelly (of society, etc.) - archaism

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to become known; to come to light; to be discovered ➜ お里が知れる【おさとがしれる】
• to be known; to be understood - often in the negative ➜ 気が知れない【きがしれない】・得体の知れない【えたいのしれない】
• to obviously not amount to much; to seem trivial ➜ 高が知れている【たかがしれている】
• to be evident; to be obvious; to go without saying - in the form しれたこと
• to be very intense (worry, hope, etc.); to be extremely severe - in forms like どれほど…かしれない

noun / ~する noun:

• down (opposite of up); becoming lower; being brought down; bringing down
• being down (e.g. with a cold) and unable to continue (work)
• down (e.g. a system); not running (e.g. servers) - IT term
• download; downstream - abbreviation - IT term

noun:

• down (feathers)

noun:

• grass; weed; herb; thatch
• ninja - archaism

prefix:

• not genuine; substandard

expression:

• laughter; LOL - slang

noun:

• thing; matter
• incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis
• circumstances; situation; state of affairs
• work; business; affair
• after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to

suffix noun:

• nominalizing suffix ➜ 事【ごと】
• pretending to ...; playing make-believe ... ➜ 事【ごと】

noun / suffix noun:

• alias; aka; nickname; alternative name; also known as - esp. as ＡことＢ or ＡとはＢのことだ (Ａ alias, Ｂ formal)

noun:

• young child; toddler
• child over 1 but not yet of school age - Law term

noun / ~の noun / suffix noun:

• all; everything; the whole; lock, stock, and barrel

adverbial noun:

• absolutely not (with negative); without exception; entirely not

adjectival noun / noun:

• useless; futile
• unnecessary; needless
• not on business; unrelated; unauthorised; unauthorized
• prohibited; banned; forbidden

noun:

• particle; atom; little piece

noun / ~の noun:

• not at all; not the slightest - used with neg. verb, often as 微塵も〜ない

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to loiter; to putter; to prowl; to wander aimlessly; to knock around; to hang around
• to be confused from not knowing what to do

expression / adjective:

• had better ... - after past tense verb
• had better not ... - after negative verb ➜ した方がいい

expression / ~よい adjective:

• had better - after past tense verb
• had better not - after negative verb

expression / adverb:

• one more; another; the other - colloquialism
• not quite; not very good; lacking ➜ 今一【いまいち】

auxiliary:

• it is assuredly that ...; can say with confidence that ... ➜ のだ
• did not ... ［なんだ］ - after the -nai stem of a verb - Kansai dialect

noun:

• without touching; no touching - From English "no touch"
• not participating in; not being concerned by; without being involved in

noun:

• immortal mountain wizard (in Taoism); mountain man (esp. a hermit)
• one not bound by earthly desires or the thoughts of normal men

noun:

• lining ➜ 表地
• land that does not adjoin to public or private roads - obscure term ➜ 袋地

noun / ~する noun:

• scoring the first point; winning the first game ［せんしょう］

noun:

• lucky day in the morning, but not in the afternoon ➜ 六曜

noun:

• making great haste, having been caught off guard; scurrying unprepared
• rushing to an emergency with sword in hand, not having had time to affix it at the waist

expression / adjective:

• difficult to get into
• not be easily influenced into joining some mood or activity Antonym: ノリが良い【ノリがよい】

noun:

• wisdom tooth
• not knowing who your parents are; person who doesn't know who their parents are

adverb / ~と adverb:

• little-by-little; gradually; slowly; soon - onomatopoeia ➜ ぼつぼつ

adjectival noun:

• not bad; passable; so-so - Kansai dialect