painful; difficult; distressing; (psychologically) difficult; straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation)
request; favour (to ask); wish; please
to entrust; to leave to a person
carrying a person in one's arms; princess carry; bridal carry
quiet; silent; slow; unhurried; calm; peaceful
declining; refusal; rejection; announcement; notice
is it?; isn't it?; be; is
legume (esp. edible legumes or their seeds, e.g. beans, peas, pulses); bean; soya bean (Glycine max); soybean; female genitalia (esp. the clitoris); kidney; small
horse mackerel (Carangidae spp., esp. the Japanese horse mackerel, Trachurus japonicus); jack mackerel; pompano; scad
roasted or deep-fried fish or meat, marinated in a spicy sauce
tamago dofu; tamago-dofu; steamed egg custard with soup stock, cooked in a square mould
salad dressed with tofu, white sesame, and white miso
pig (Sus scrofa domesticus); pork; fatso; fatty
to fry; to saute; to stir-fry
common orient clam (Meretrix lusoria)
clear broth soup, with ingredients and garnish floating in and on it
eggplant (Solanum melongena); aubergine
lightly pickled vegetables
aroma; fragrance; scent; smell
just now; a little while back; a short time ago
absorption; suction; attraction
digestion (of food); digestion (of information); assimilation; consumption; absorption; (arch.) losing one's form and turning into something else
to use up; to exhaust; to devote oneself (to); to do one's utmost (for); to do to exhaustion; to do completely
ecdysis; shedding (of skin); sloughing; freeing oneself; breaking with (convention, etc.)
to open one's eyes wide (in astonishment, wonder, etc.); to be wide-eyed; to be amazed
gem; jewel; precious stone
hug; carrying in one's arms (a baby, pet, doll, etc.)
pardon; forgiveness; forbearance
deplorable; regrettable; disappointing; vexing; unfortunate
every corner; every nook and cranny; all the ins and outs
to diffuse; to spread throughout; to prevail; to become widespread; to reach everyone
to reach; to amount to; to be up to the task; to come up to; to compare with; to be a match (for)
(in a) long time; long time (ago); while (ago); long ago; long while (ago); (in a) long while
kilo-; 1000; kilogram; kilogramme; kilometre; kilometer