expression:

• what date?; what's the date?; when?

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to be aware of; to know; to be conscious of; to cognize; to cognise
• to notice; to feel
• to understand; to comprehend; to grasp
• to remember; to be acquainted with (a procedure)
• to experience; to go through; to learn
• to be acquainted with (a person); to get to know
• to concern

suffix noun:

• from the standpoint of; as a matter of (e.g. fact); in the field of; being of the type of
• aboard (a ship or vehicle); on top of; on; above

noun:

• first volume (e.g. book) ➜ 下【げ】・上巻

noun / prefix:

• superior quality; best; top; high class
• going up
• governmental; imperial
• presenting; showing

prefix:

• ana- (medical, biol.)

noun:

• stain; spot; smudge; blot; smear; blotch
• spot (on one's skin, e.g. chloasma, liver spot); blemish; discoloration; freckle - esp. シミ ➜ 肝斑

noun:

• savanna monitor (Varanus exanthematicus, species of carnivorous monitor lizard native to sub-Saharan Africa); Bosc's monitor ➜ サバンナモニター

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to reverberate; to resound; to echo
• to have one's fame spread; to be renowned

expression / ichidan verb:

• to bud; to sprout; to germinate
• to have luck on one's side; to get lucky ➜ 目が出る

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to give vent to (one's feeling); to hint (at something); to intimate; to suggest

noun:

• one group comprising the lowest rank of Japan's Edo-period caste system (people whose work usually involved handling human bodies or animal carcasses) - vulgar ➜ 被差別部落民

noun:

• laying out (e.g. ground plan, garden); layout
• taking space (Go); obtaining land; gaining territory
• training done in one's own stable - Sumo term
• (police) legwork - abbreviation ➜ 地取り捜査

noun:

• namahage; folklore demons of the Oga Peninsula (villagers dress up as them on New Year's Eve and frighten children)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to chew thoroughly; to bite (e.g. one's lip)
• to reflect upon; to digest

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to lie on one's back with legs outstretched; to recline
• to get cocky; to be arrogant

noun:

• the hundredth year
• out of luck; (at the) end of one's rope
• rare chance; unusually good fortune

noun:

• hepatica (Hepatica nobilis var. japonica); liverleaf; liverwort ➜ 三角草【みすみそう】・州浜草【すはまそう】
• bird's-eye primrose (Primula farinosa subsp. modesta); mealy primrose

noun:

• technique of throwing one's opponent by pushing his chest while holding his thigh; thigh-grabbing push down - Sumo term

adverb:

• at last; at length ➜ やっと
• barely; just; by the skin of one's teeth

interjection:

• yo-ho!; heave-ho! ［やっとこさ・やっとこせ］ ➜ やっとこまかせ

noun:

• trick of leaning back and carrying one's opponent round and out of the ring - Sumo term
• last-minute reversal

noun:

• inconsistency of speech and action; failing to act up to one's words; not practicing what one preaches - four character idiom

noun:

• having one's baby nursed by another woman; wet-nursing; breast milk received from another woman

noun:

• someone from outside one's own province (China) ➜ 本省人
• someone who moved to Taiwan from the continent after WWII ➜ 本省人

noun:

• winter daylight; winter sunlight - obscure term
• trying to make the most of each day; devoting oneself to one's parents - obscure term

noun / ~する noun:

• second helping; another cup; seconds ➜ 代わり【かわり】

interjection:

• command to have dog place its second paw in one's hand ➜ お手【おて】

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• repeatedly opening and closing (one's mouth); gasping - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~する noun:

• flapping (e.g. shoe sole); gaping open and shut - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• heartily (eating); devouring; munching; gobbling - onomatopoeia

noun:

• manufacturing; craftsmanship; making things by hand
• making New-Year's decorations
• preparing fields; farming; farmer