noun / ~の noun:

• other (place, thing, person); the rest
• outside; beyond - esp. 外 - usually written using kana alone

adverbial noun:

• nothing except; nothing but; nothing apart from; nothing aside from; no choice (but to) - as 〜ほか〜ない, usu. after より or the dictionary form of a verb - usually written using kana alone ➜ ほかない
• besides...; in addition to... - often as ほかに

expression:

• So many people, so many minds; Everyone has his own ideas and tastes; It takes all sorts to make a world; To each his (her) own - four character idiom

adverb / noun:

• unsparingly; without listening to the other party; without giving the other party a chance to explain

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to all come in (e.g. teeth); to all come out (e.g. seedlings, flowers)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to spend all of one's free time; to spend one's time without constraint

noun:

• Bizen sword (mid-Heian to early Kamakura periods)
• ancient Bizen ware (Kamakura to early Momoyama periods) ➜ 備前焼

noun:

• request for a police search; application to the police to search for a missing person

expression:

• not negligible; not a little; to no small degree; to no small extent; quite a lot

expression / adjective:

• to not understand what somebody is getting at; to not understand what is being talked about

expression:

• learn to crawl before you learn to walk; until you ride a horse, ride a cow [literal] - proverb

noun / suffix noun:

• bodhisattva; one who has reached enlightenment but vows to save all beings before becoming a buddha - Buddhism term
• High Monk (title bestowed by the imperial court)
• title bestowed to Shinto kami in manifestation theory ➜ 本地垂迹説

adverb:

• or; otherwise
• furthermore; also
• perhaps; by some chance; possibly - archaism
• that being said; be that as it may - archaism
• however; but - archaism
• not to mention; needless to say - archaism
• as expected; sure enough - archaism
• really; at all - used to express emphatic denial, suspicion, or emotion - archaism

expression:

• just as it is reassuring to have a companion when traveling, it is important for us to care for each other as we pass through this life

noun:

• sword-bearer (subordinate whose job it is to hold their master's sword)
• rikishi carrying a sword who follows the yokozuna to the ring during his ring-entering ceremony - Sumo term

expression:

• it's hard to cut one's ties to close relatives even if they are wicked; you don't cut your finger off just because it's dirty [literal] - proverb

godan ~る verb:

• to ride on a person's shoulders; to be carried on a person's back

expression:

• good advice is harsh to the ears; honest advice is often unpleasant to the ears - four character idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to speak through one's tears; to speak with tears in one's eyes

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to shrivel up in fear; to tremble in fear; one's testicles shrivel up [literal]

expression:

• Talented people tend to be of delicate constitution; Men of genius tend to be of delicate health; Whom the gods love die young - four character idiom

noun:

• being apt to make a show of one's faults; penchant for boasting of one's faults; pretending to be worse than one really is - four character idiom

godan ~る verb:

• to ride into (a place); to drive into (a place)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to hold one's breath; to catch one's breath

adverb:

• as if to say; as much as to say; as though

expression:

• It is hard to explain; It is hard to say