[りょく, ryoku] (n) (1) force; strength; might; vigour (vigor); energy; (2) capability; ability; proficiency; capacity; faculty; (3) efficacy; effect; (4) effort; endeavours (endeavors); exertions; (5) power; authority; influence; good offices; agency; (6) (See 力になる) support; help; aid; assistance; (7) stress; emphasis; (8) means; resources; (P) #489
[て, te] (n) (1) (occ. pronounced た when a prefix) (See お手・おて・1) hand; arm; (2) (col) (See お手・おて・3) forepaw; foreleg; (3) handle; (4) hand; worker; help; (5) trouble; care; effort; (6) means; way; trick; move; technique; workmanship; (7) hand; handwriting; (8) kind; type; sort; (9) (See 手に入る) one's hands; one's possession; (10) (See 手に余る) ability to cope; (11) hand (of cards); (12) (See 山の手・1) direction; (P) #546
[で, de] (n, n-suf) (1) coming out; going out; outflow; efflux; rising (of the sun or moon); (2) attending (work); appearing (on stage); one's turn to go on; (3) start; beginning; (4) origins; background; person (or item) originating from ...; graduate of ...; native of ...; member of ... (lineage); (5) architectural member that projects outward; (6) highest point of the stern of a ship; (7) (uk) (usu. after the -masu stem of a verb as 〜出がある or 〜出がない, etc.) amount (comprising something); amount of time or effort required to do something; (P) #632
[かつやく, katsuyaku] (n) (1) activity (esp. energetic); great efforts; conspicuous service; (vs) (2) to flourish; to participate actively; to play an active role; (P) #1297
[どりょく, doryoku] (n, vs) great effort; exertion; endeavour; endeavor; effort; (P) #4591
[じんりょく, jinryoku] (n, vs) efforts; assistance; (P) #7437
[とりくみ, torikumi] (n) (1) bout (in sports, etc.); match; (2) effort; initiative; dealing with; grappling with; wrestling with; (P) #7450
[ふんとう, funtou] (n, vs) hard struggle; strenuous effort; (P) #11787
[とりくむ(取り組む;取組む)(P);とっくむ(取っ組む;取組む), torikumu ( torikumu ; torikumu )(P); tokkumu ( totsu mu ; torikumu )] (v5m, vi) to tackle; to wrestle with; to engage in a bout; to come to grips with; to make effort; to strive for; to deal with; (P) #12531
[ろう, rou] (n) labor; labour; toil; trouble; pains; work; effort; striving; (P) #12932
[じんりき;じんりょく, jinriki ; jinryoku] (n) human power; human strength; human effort; human agency #14740
[ろうりょく, rouryoku] (n) labour; labor; effort; toil; trouble; (P) #15343
[ほんそう, honsou] (n, vs) running about; efforts; activity; (P) #16301
[いっきょ, ikkyo] (n-adv, n) one effort; one action; (P) #16305
[unto] (adv) (1) (on-mim) a great deal; very much; a lot; (2) with a great amount of effort
[untokosa ; untoko ; untokosho] (int) (1) oof (i.e. a grunt of effort); (adv) (2) (See うんと・1) a lot; plenty
[ecchiraocchira] (adv) with a great deal of effort; laboriously
[くたびれもうけ, kutabiremouke] (n, adj-no) waste of effort; thankless task
[gunyari] (adv-to) flabbily; softly; limply; effortlessly; flexibly; mushy
[korori] (adv-to) (1) (on-mim) easily; effortlessly; suddenly; utterly; (2) changing completely; (n) (3) plink (sound of something light falling or rolling)
[ごくろうさま, gokurousama] (exp, adj-na) thank you very much for your ...; I appreciate your efforts; (P)
[ごくろうさん, gokurousan] (exp) I appreciate your efforts
[たゆまぬどりょく, tayumanudoryoku] (exp) (See 弛む) diligence; unceasing efforts
[もうひとがんばり, mouhitoganbari] (n, vs) one more effort
[yoisho ; yoissho] (int) (1) (expression of) effort or strain; Yo-heave-ho!; (vs) (2) to butter up; to suck up to
[yokkoisho] (int) (See よいしょ) (expression of) effort or strain; heave-ho
[sutorein] (n) (1) strain; effort; tension; tiredness; (2) tendancy; lineage; race; inheritance
[チャラつく, chara tsuku] (v5k) (sl) to make (the effort to make) oneself look cool
[besutoefo-to] (n) { comp } best effort
[ベストエフォートかた, besutoefo-to kata] (n) { comp } best effort type
[rasutosupa-to] (n) last spurt; home stretch; last part of a race or period of time where you give it your best effort; (P)
[rasutohebi-] (n) final effort before the end (wasei
[あくはつとほ, akuhatsutoho] (n) (a statesman making) extraordinary efforts to find and employ capable persons (persons of great wisdom)
[いしょうさんたん, ishousantan] (n) taxing one's ingenuity in devising something; agonizing over designing or creating something; making strenuous efforts to devise good ways and means to do something
[いしょくたりてれいせつをしる, ishokutaritereisetsuwoshiru] (exp) the poor can't afford manners; only when basic needs for living are met can people spare the effort to be polite
[いっきょしゅいっとうそく, ikkyoshuittousoku] (n) slight effort; least trouble; small amount of work
[ひとて;いっしゅ, hitote ; isshu] (n) (1) one hand; (2) one's own effort
[いっしょけんめい, isshokenmei] (adj-na, n-adv, n) (1) (See 一生懸命) very hard; with utmost effort; with all one's might; desperately; frantically; for dear life; all-out effort; sticking at living in and defending one place; (2) sticking at living in one place
[いっしょうけんめい, isshoukenmei] (adj-na, n-adv, n) (See 一所懸命) very hard; with utmost effort; with all one's might; for dear life; (P)
[ひといき, hitoiki] (n, adj-no) (1) one breath; pause; rest; (2) one go (i.e. in a short time); (3) small amount of effort
[いっちきょうりょく, icchikyouryoku] (n, vs) combined (concerted) efforts; solidarity; joining forces (with)
[いちばくじっかん, ichibakujikkan] (exp) (1) bursts of exertion will fail to bear fruit if interrupted by long periods of idleness; (2) strenuous efforts, unless sustained, are to no avail (Mencius)
[いっしゃせんり, isshasenri] (n) one swift effort; rush through one's work; fast-talking, writing, etc.
[あまだれいしをうがつ, amadareishiwougatsu] (exp) (id) slow but steady wins the race; constant effort will result in success; constant dripping wears away a stone
[はいていらおゆえ, haiteiraoyue] (n) totally useless (fruitless) effort; wasting time on an impossible task (like trying to scoop up a reflected moon from the bottom of the sea)
[けんどじゅうらい;けんどちょうらい, kendojuurai ; kendochourai] (n) recouping one's strength for a renewed attack (on); making another attempt with redoubled efforts
[きゅうよのいっさく, kyuuyonoissaku] (n) (See 窮余の策) desperate measure; last-ditch effort
[きょうしんりくりょく, kyoushinrikuryoku] (n, vs) combined (concerted) efforts; solidarity; joining forces (with)
[きょうりょくいっち, kyouryokuicchi] (n, vs) combined (concerted) efforts; solidarity; joining forces (with)
[くもなく, kumonaku] (adv) easily; without effort