silver (Ag); silver coin; money; silver medal; silver colour; silver color; bank
Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; politeness marker
to raise; to raise up; to wake; to wake up; to cause; to bring about; to start
indicates a question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm; huh; very
impoliteness; carelessness; misconduct; clumsiness
thing; object; one's things; possessions; things; something; quality
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
(someone else's) daughter
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
to draw; to paint; to depict; to describe; to picture in one's mind; to imagine
to give; to let (one) have; to give; to do for one; to take the trouble to do; to do to someone's disadvantage
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
filthy; dirty (looking); drab
eh?; what?; yes; that's correct; (arch.) strengthens a question, assertion, etc.; (arch.) hey
country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); (arch.) province (of Japan)
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 leave of one's own accord
outside; exterior; the open (air); other place; somewhere else
indicates two contrasting actions; (arch.) indicates possessive (often found in place names and compound words)
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
humanity and justice (esp. in Confucianism); virtue; duty; formal greeting (between yakuza, street vendors, gamblers, etc.); (gang's) moral code
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
flag; banner (administrative division of Inner Mongolia)
before long; soon; almost; nearly; finally; in the end
class (of students); group (of people); party; lot; bunch; crime family; organized-crime syndicate
everyone; everybody; all; everything; all
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
to call; to summon; to send for; to call together
scoundrel; rascal; villain
first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)
town; block; downtown; main street; street; road
to cut off; to excise; to tear off; to cut out; to whittle down; to tear out
why; oh; no!; quit it!; stop!
exhilarating; thrilling; intensely pleasurable
but; however; (and) yet; nevertheless; still; for all that
what kind of; what sort of; what; no matter what (kind of); whatever; any
to use (a thing, method, etc.); to make use of; to use (a person, animal, puppet, etc.); to employ; to use (time, money, etc.); to spend
so far; up to now; hitherto; that's enough (for today); it ends here
details; particulars; longitude and latitude; warp and weft; warp and woof
clear; obvious; evident; bright; light
be; is; did; (have) done; please; do
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...