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); (arch.) province (of Japan)
mountain; hill; mine (e.g. coal mine); heap; pile; crown (of a hat); thread (of a screw)
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
Mt.; Mount; (fig.) Mt.; (fig.) Mount
approx. 80% of the way up a mountainside; view of a light green mountain; mountain that appears green from afar
hollow; cavity; hole; cave
slight movement; slight tremor; quiver
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); proprietress; (arch.) entertaining someone as one's guest
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
to blame; to reproach; to question (a suspect); to challenge; to aggravate (an injury); to be aggravated
as (i.e. in the role of); for (i.e. from the viewpoint of); apart from... (used to change the topic); even (e.g. "not even a single person"); thinking that...; trying to...
precipitous cliff; sheer precipice; critical situation
to grow; to spring up; to sprout; to cut (teeth)
sweet-tasting; sweet; fragrant (smelling); sweet (music); lightly salted; light in salt; naive
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 adopt (method, proposal, etc.); to take (measure, course of action, etc.); to pick (e.g. flowers); to gather (e.g. mushrooms); to extract (e.g. juice); to take (e.g. a sample); to assume (an attitude)
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
to order; to command; to appoint
oscillation; vibration; swing (e.g. of a pendulum)
to leave (in someone's keeping); to put (in someone's care); to put (someone) in charge of; to leave (a matter) in someone's hands; to lean on; to put one's weight on
in front (of); before (e.g. a building); before; earlier; (the) front; frontal part; forward
king; queen; monarch; the Crown (as a focus of authority in the UK, etc.); the throne
daughter; girl (i.e. a young, unmarried woman)
to be aware of; to know; to notice; to feel; to understand; to comprehend; to remember
to spur on; to urge forward; to impel; to drive at high speed (e.g. a car)
village; hamlet; countryside; country; home (of one's parents, etc.); hometown
people; men and women; each person; everybody
to be caught; to be captured; to be taken prisoner; to be seized with (fear, etc.); to be a slave to; to stick to
to finish; to stop; to close (a business, etc.); to close down; to put away; to put back
king; ruler; tycoon; magnate; king (of the senior player)
bureaucrat; government official; bureaucracy
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
space (between); gap; period of time (during, while); duration; between (two parties or things); among (a group); relations (between)
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
trifling with; toying with; playing with; tossing about (a ship)
inside; within; while (e.g. one is young); during; among; amongst; in (secret, chaos, poverty, etc.)