head; hair (on one's head); mind; brains; leader; chief; top
inside; interior; among; within; middle; center; during
pure white; blank (e.g. mind, paper)
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it; I mean
happiness; good fortune; luck; blessing
good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial
feeling; sense; impression
don't you think?; indicates question
discourtesy; impoliteness; excuse me; goodbye; to leave; to be rude
-like; sort of; similar to; resembling
please remember me; please help me; please treat me well; please do; please take care of
teacher; instructor; sensei; title or form of address for a teacher, master, doctor, lawyer, etc.; intimate or teasing form of address; (arch.) one's elder
safe; secure; certainly; surely; no thanks; I'm good
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix
face; visage; look; expression; honor; honour
anxiety; uneasiness; worry; apprehension; fear; insecurity
attendance (on); chaperonage; attendant; escort; entourage
direction; way; side (of an argument, etc.); one's part; type; category; field (of study, etc.)
separate room; another room; special room; (arch.) concubine (of a noble)
honorific/polite/humble prefix
I'm off; see you later; to go (and then come back)
to persevere; to persist; to insist that; to stick to (one's opinion); to remain in a place; to stick to one's post
safety; security; safely; without incident; good health; inaction
to finish; to end; to merely result in something less severe than expected; to feel at ease; to feel unease or guilt for troubling someone; to be sorry
right away; without delay; as soon as possible; very soon
absurd; unreasonable; excessive; very; extremely; excessively
today; this day; these days; recently; nowadays
local specialty or souvenir bought as a gift while travelling; present brought by a visitor; something unpleasant that one is given (e.g. an illness while on vacation); unwelcome gift
first; foremost; most important; best; greatest; above all
to reach; to touch; to be delivered; to arrive; to be attentive; to be scrupulous
only; merely; approximately; about; just (finished, etc.); as if to; (as though) about to
incredible; unbelievable; terrific; impressive
genuine article; real thing; real deal
to line up; to stand in a line; to rival; to match; to equal
no good; not serving its purpose; hopeless; wasted; cannot; must not
tear; tears; lachrymal secretion; sympathy
(not) at all; (not) in the slightest; wholly; entirely; extremely; very
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
serialization; serialisation; serial story
reopening; resumption; restarting
to the end; to the bitter end; to the last; after all; it must be remembered; only
to ferry across (e.g. a river); to carry across; to lay across; to build across; to hand over; to hand in