noun:

• bamboo shoots boiled, sliced, fermented, dried or preserved in salt, then soaked in hot water and sea salt - sensitive ➜ 麺媽

noun / prefix noun:

• having a fetish for ...; specializing in ...; majoring in ... - abbreviation - slang ➜ 専門

noun:

• first; foremost; number one priority - archaism
• doing as one pleases; acting selfishly - archaism
• fired brick - archaism

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be in pain (referring to others); to complain of pain ➜ 痛い・がる

expression / godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to take pride in; to pride oneself; to be proud of

noun:

• pair; couple; set
• antithesis ➜ 対句

counter:

• counter for items that come in pairs
• counter for sets (of clothes, small furniture, utensils, etc.)

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• (just) out of curiosity; (just) in order to satisfy one's curiosity; aimed chiefly at amusing; sensational (e.g. magazine) - four character idiom

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to make use of aizuchi; to back-channel; to throw in interjections to show that one is paying attention ➜ 相槌【あいづち】

adverb / ~する noun:

• refreshingly; with a feeling of relief; pleasantly; (a weight) off one's shoulder - onomatopoeia ➜ すっきり
• (wearing, etc. something) elegantly; smartly; stylishly; in a refined manner - onomatopoeia

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to disdain; to look down on; to make light of; to hold in contempt; to scorn; to despise

noun:

• first tone in old Chinese phonetics; level tone
• (of a Japanese accent) having a low, flat tone

noun:

• (school) class change; class shuffle; rearrangement of which students are in which teacher's class

noun:

• female plant (esp. a woody plant); gynoecious plant ➜ 男木【おぎ】
• indented part of a wooden joint (in construction) ➜ 男木【おぎ】

noun:

• male plant (esp. a woody plant); androecious plant ➜ 女木
• tenoned part of a wooden joint (in construction) ➜ 女木

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to permit; to allow; to approve; to consent to
• to forgive; to pardon; to excuse; to tolerate
• to exempt (someone) from; to remit; to release; to let off
• to acknowledge; to admit ➜ 自他ともに許す
• to trust; to confide in; to let one's guard down ➜ 心を許す・気を許す
• to give up (points in a game, distance in a race, etc.); to yield

noun:

• wall; partition
• barrier; obstacle
• Chinese "Wall" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) ［へき］ - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿・玄武【げんぶ】

adverb:

• at last; at length - onomatopoeia
• barely; narrowly; just; by the skin of one's teeth - onomatopoeia

noun / suffix noun:

• king; ruler; sovereign; monarch
• tycoon; magnate; champion; master
• king (of the senior player) - abbreviation - Shōgi term ➜ 王将【おうしょう】

adverb:

• from the bottom of one's heart; heart and soul; by nature

noun / ~の noun:

• revival from the brink of death; recovering from a hopeless situation; resuscitation; revitalization - four character idiom

noun:

• loess
• yellow ochre; yellow ocher
• Hades; hell; underworld; world of the dead ［こうど］ - archaism

noun:

• first storm of spring; strong winds during the change from winter to spring

noun:

• head of a pipe, incl. the bowl and stem attachment
• neck; head - colloquialism

noun:

• classical drama (kabuki, noh, etc.); play of the old school
• period drama (film) ➜ 時代劇

adjectival noun / noun:

• being cleared of all the charge (brought against one); being found completely innocent - four character idiom

noun:

• back to back
• discord; feud
• opposite sides of the same coin