~の noun / adjectival noun / noun / prefix noun:

• raw; uncooked; fresh
• natural; as it is; unedited; unprocessed
• unprotected (i.e. not wearing a condom) - colloquialism
• live (i.e. not recorded)
• inexperienced; unpolished; green; crude
• impudence; sauciness - abbreviation ➜ 生意気
• unpasteurized beer; draft beer; draught beer - abbreviation ➜ 生ビール

prefix:

• just a little; somehow; vaguely; partially; somewhat; half-; semi-
• irresponsibly; half-baked

noun:

• cash - archaism
• tipsiness - abbreviation ➜ 生酔い

adjectival noun:

• straight - archaism ➜ 真直【まなお】・直直【なおなお】
• ordinary; common
• doing nothing

noun / prefix noun:

• smallness; small item
• short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days) ➜ 小の月
• elementary school - abbreviation ➜ 小学校
• younger or inferior (of two items or people with the same name)
• unit of field area (approx. 400 sq m) - archaism

noun:

• koto (13-stringed Japanese zither)
• stringed instrument ［こと］ - archaism
• zheng (Chinese zither); guzheng ［箏・筝］

noun:

• hostel; dormitory
• bureau (government department beneath a ministry under the ritsuryo system) - archaism ➜ 律令制

noun / ~の noun:

• amateur; layman; ordinary person; novice Antonym: 玄人【くろうと】

noun:

• respectable woman (not a prostitute, hostess, geisha, etc.) ➜ 玄人【くろうと】
• unlicensed prostitute - archaism - Kyōto dialect ➜ 私娼

noun:

• wife (esp. one's own wife)
• court lady; female court attache; woman who served at the imperial palace ［にょうぼう・にゅうぼう］
• woman (esp. as a love interest) ［にょうぼう・にゅうぼう］ - archaism

noun:

• waterfall
• rapids - archaism

noun:

• kitchen knife; carving knife
• cooking; food - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• digestion (of food)
• digestion (of information); assimilation; thorough understanding
• consumption; absorption; using up; meeting (e.g. a quota); completion
• losing one's form and turning into something else - orig. meaning - archaism

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to build up; to establish - esp. 成す
• to form; to become (a state) - esp. 成す
• to accomplish; to achieve; to succeed in
• to change into
• to do; to perform - esp. 為す

auxiliary verb:

• to intend to; to attempt; to try - archaism

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to mince; to cut fine; to chop up; to hash; to shred
• to carve; to engrave; to chisel; to notch
• to tick away (time); to beat out (e.g. rhythm); to record the passing moments
• to etch (into one's mind); to remember distinctly - as 心に刻む, etc. ➜ 心に刻む
• to have tattooed - archaism
• to torment - archaism

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to descend; to go down; to come down
• to be handed down (of an order, judgment, etc.)
• to pass (of time)
• to surrender; to capitulate
• to be less than; to be inferior to - often in neg. form
• to have the runs; to have diarrhea - also written as 瀉る ➜ 腹が下る
• to pass (in stool); to be discharged from the body
• to depreciate oneself; to be humble - archaism

noun / ~する noun / adjectival noun:

• feeling obliged; being grateful; being thankful; being sorry; being ashamed - sometimes used to prefix a request

noun / ~する noun:

• shrinking back in fear - archaism

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to ring; to sound; to chime; to beat; to snort (nose); to snap (fingers)
• to be popular; to be esteemed; to be reputed
• to state; to insist; to complain
• to fart (loudly) - archaism

interjection / noun:

• crying "banzai" (or raising one's hands in the banzai gesture)
• something worthy of celebration
• giving up ［ばんざい］
• long time - archaism
• eternal life (and prosperity) - archaism

interjection:

• banzai (a celebratory cheer); hurrah (hooray, hurray)

noun / adverbial noun:

• each

pronoun:

• you (plural) - archaism

adverb:

• once
• for a short time; briefly; temporarily

noun:

• one morning - archaism

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to tear; to rip up ［裂く］
• to cut up; to cleave; to cut open (esp. the abdomen)
• to forcibly separate (e.g. two lovers) ［裂く］
• to spare (time, money, etc.); to use part of something ［割く］
• to have a tattoo in the corner of one's eye - archaism ➜ 黥く

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to peek (though a keyhole, gap, etc.)
• to look down into (a ravine, etc.)
• to peek into (a shop, bookstore, etc.)
• to sneak a look at; to take a quick look at
• to peep (through a telescope, microscope, etc.)

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to stick out (a scarf from a collar, etc.); to peek through (sky through a forest canopy, etc.)

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to examine (an expression); to study (a face)

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to face - esp. 臨く - archaism ➜ 臨む

noun / ~する noun:

• advance arrangements; preparatory meeting; briefing session
• overlap (of a coat, etc.)
• making something match exactly - archaism

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to have someone send (a message, parcel, etc.); to send (via someone else); to leave (a message) with someone
• to use as an excuse; to make a pretext of - archaism

adverb:

• a great deal; very much; a lot - onomatopoeia
• with a great amount of effort - onomatopoeia - archaism

noun:

• head; leader; top - esp. 首脳
• important part - esp. 主脳 - archaism

noun / suffix noun:

• death; decease
• death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation) - archaism ➜ 五刑

noun:

• (an) out - Baseball term