expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be famous; to be celebrated; to be worthy of the name - emphatic form of 名に負う ➜ 名に負う【なにおう】

godan ~く verb:

• to become lovely; to become charming; to become sweet (facial features, etc)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be taken aback; to be astonished; to be dumbfounded

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to become tense; to become serious; to become sober

expression / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• sobering; bracing

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to keep face; to save face; to not lose face

noun:

• canopy (esp. the cloth or canvas used for it); awning; top (of a convertible); hood
• helmet cape; cloth covering one's back to protect against arrows during battle

noun:

• the system in government offices and business corporations in which draft proposals are prepared by someone in charge of the matter and circulated for collective deliberation and final approval by particular (designated) officials or executives - four character idiom

noun:

• shower effect (theory that placing high-selling items on the upper floors of a department store will lead to increased sales in the lower floors) ➜ 噴水効果

adverb:

• sound of something small rolling once (often into a hole) - onomatopoeia
• easily
• suddenly
• completely (e.g. forgetting); utterly
• disappointing
• curling up into the fetal position; going to sleep suddenly

noun / ~する noun:

• pitching a tent; putting up a shack or tent (e.g. a circus tent)

noun:

• (theater, circus, etc.) tent or shack

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to meet fortuitously (e.g. running into an old friend); to meet by chance; to happen across

expression / noun:

• doing or receiving something good by accident or through the invitation of somebody else; being pulled to the Zenkoji temple by a cow [literal] - idiom

noun:

• individual item (i.e. not part of a set); single article
• single item out of a set; one item from a set

noun / ~する noun:

• photo taken with a mobile phone; taking a photo with a mobile phone - abbreviation - colloquialism ➜ 写メール
• email from mobile phones with attached photos - abbreviation ➜ 写メール

noun:

• space on a page (e.g. in a newspaper)
• surface of paper
• letter; writings; document

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• white heat; incandescence
• becoming excited; getting heated (e.g. of a discussion); reaching a climax

noun:

• variant (in a manuscript or book); part of a text that differs from other versions

noun / ~する noun:

• criticism (by a teacher or coach, with commentary, especially at a poetry reading); review; critique

noun:

• apron of a gun; cover for the touch-hole on a cannon or matchlock ➜ 火蓋を切る

noun:

• a couple strangely but happily united; uncanny relationship formed by a quirk of fate - four character idiom

expression:

• doing one's own flower arranging
• marrying or making a mistress of a geisha

noun:

• Edo-period mouth harp (with a hairpin-like frame and a long straight tongue)

noun:

• services performed in perpetuity by a Buddhist temple for the repose of a departed soul - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• go into a huddle (over); hold a secret conference (about); put heads together and conspire - four character idiom

noun:

• text message or symbol on a busy mobile phone indicating a call arrival (DoCoMo feature)