yes; indeed; ha!; what?; huh?; sigh
don't; do; hey; listen; now, ...; well, ...
dark; gloomy; depressed; dispirited; dark (in colour); dull; ill-boding
road; path; way; set of practices; Buddhist teachings; Taoism; modern administrative region of Japan (Hokkaido)
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
bone; frame; outline; core; backbone; spirit
to eat; to live; to make a living; to bite; to sting (as insects do); to tease; to torment
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
somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
to disappear; to vanish; to go out (of a fire, light, etc.); to die; to fade (of a feeling, impression, etc.); to vanish (e.g. of hope); to go away (e.g. of a smell, itchiness, sleepiness)
(in gagaku or noh) middle section of a song
ball; sphere; bead (of sweat, dew, etc.); drop; ball (in sports); pile (of noodles, etc.); bullet
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.
you; presence (of a god, nobleman, etc.)
country in civil war; country disarrayed by war; Warring States period (Japan, China); competiton in which there are several evenly-matched participants; hotly-contested game (match, market, etc.)
world; society; life; lifetime; age; era; reign
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
should; must; -able; probably; likely
myself; yourself; I; me; you
the world; society; sphere; circle; world-renowned; world-famous
to return; to come home; to leave; to get home; to get to home plate
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
to desire; to wish; to beg; to request; to have something done for oneself
(not) anything; (nothing) at all; and everything else; and all; (not) at all; (not) in the least
phew; whew; huff; whoo; wohoo
the seven treasures (gold, silver, pearls, agate, crystal, coral, lapis lazuli); cloisonne ware; shippō pattern (of overlapping circles); shippō emblem
watch-keeping; guard; lookout
to succeed; to relieve; to take the place of; to substitute for; to be exchanged; to change (places with)
continuously in some state (for a long time, distance); throughout; much (better, etc.); by far; far away; long ago
outside; exterior; the open (air); other place; somewhere else
unable to stay healthy; ruining one's health; exceeding the limits of one's body
how; in what way; how about
to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed