ability; gift; talent; sai; traditional unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml
country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); province (of Japan)
approx. 80% of the way up a mountainside; view of a light green mountain; mountain that appears green from afar
hollow; cavity; hole; cave
at; in; at; when; by; with; so
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
throughout; over a period of ...; over a span of ...
exploitation; overuse; abuse
guest; visitor; customer; client; counter for containers used to entertain guests
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
sinus; cavity; antrum; neighborhood (administrative division in North Korea)
(one's) master; (one's) employer; leader (of a country, group, etc.); head; Lord; main thing
from; since; through (e.g. a window, door); via; because; as; from (as in "made from")
at; in; to; toward; to; for; because of
myself; yourself; I; me; you
if; when; and; as well as; with; together with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.)
approximate age; apparent age; marriageable age (esp. of a woman); age of maturity; age (when ...); for years (past)
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
girl (usu. between 7 and 17); young lady; (arch.) female between 17 and 20 years old (ritsuryō period)
king; ruler; tycoon; magnate; king (of the senior player)
indicates the subject of a sentence; indicates possession; but; however; and; used after an introductory remark or explanation; regardless of ...
birth (of a person); nativity; creation; formation; one's first birthday
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
to let (someone) hear; to tell (e.g. a story); to make (someone) listen; to make (someone) understand; to grip (someone) with skilful singing, storytelling, etc.; to hold (someone) enchanted by
same; identical; equal; anyway; in any case; if one must ...
Japanese league; ri; neighbourhood (under the ritsuryō system; orig. of 50 homes); unit of area (approx. 654 m by 654 m)
poor; needy; lacking (quantity and quality-wise); poor; scanty
(way of) life; lifestyle; living; life circumstances; livelihood; day-to-day life
to send; to dispatch; to see (someone) off; to escort; to bid farewell to (the departed); to say goodbye to; to spend (time)
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
to hear; to hear by chance; to hear by accident; to catch (the sound)
peak; summit; ridge; back of a blade
daughter; girl (i.e. a young, unmarried woman)
to forget; to leave carelessly; to be forgetful of; to forget about; to forget (an article)
what's in one's heart; one's emotional state; what one feels
queen; female monarch; queen consort; consort of a king; queen; princess
to bud; to sprout; to arise; to begin to grow
the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...