pitch; tone; time; tempo; mood; tendency
cloth; bujian (spade-shaped bronze coin of ancient China)
house; residence; family; household; lineage; family name
to be erected; to be built
aah!; ooh!; oh no!; oh boy!
to look (stare) back at (somebody); to look at again; to re-examine; to prove oneself superior (to someone who had previously been condescending); to look back (behind oneself)
only; merely; just; at most; no more than
once; one time; one round; one game; one bout; one heat
to feel down; to feel sad; to be in a slump (business, economy, etc.); to be in an unfavourable condition; to fall into (e.g. a hole)
to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
to turn up; to roll up (e.g. sleeves); to do over and over again; to do relentlessly; to stage a comeback (against) (in mahjong, horse racing, etc.); to come from behind
to change; to alter; to transform; to reform; to revise; to amend
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
anything and everything; just about everything
to throw away; to cast away; to abandon; to desert; to give up; to resign
rural area; countryside; the sticks; hometown
(not) anything; (nothing) at all; and everything else; and all; (not) at all; (not) in the least
(for something) to have occurred; to have done (something); (for something) to happen on occasion
should (be); bound (to be); nock (of a bow); nock (of an arrow); nock-shaped grip (between thumb and forefinger); wooden frame on the tip of the mast of a Japanese ship that prevents the hawser from falling out
oh!; good heavens!; ugh!; oh no!; ah!; the penny drops!
blood; blood; ancestry; (the) blood; feelings
to run (of liquid); to spread; to blur; to blot; to ooze; to well up (of tears, etc.)
mess; sorry state; -ways; -wards; in the act of ...; just as one is ...
special training; intensive training; crash course
every day; daily; day after day; days (e.g. good old days)
severe; harsh; hard; cruel; rigorous
to carry to extremes; to go to the end of something; to investigate thoroughly; to master
wicked tongue; abusive language
(fictional) character; character; personality; persona
exactly; surely; right then; just then; just (about to); on the verge (of doing or happening)
national (e.g. hero, pastime, consensus); relevant to all citizens; popular on a national level
passion; enthusiasm; zeal
to remain; to abide; to stay (in the one place); to be limited to; to be confined to; to only account for
next; following; subsequent; stage; station
to emboss; to print out; to print; to work out (e.g. policy); to hammer out; to strike (a drum indicating the end of a performance)
secret plan; secret scheme; secret stratagem; secret method
indicates word or phrase being defined; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); with; (not) as much as; (not) so much as; the fact that
private; personal life; (one's) privacy
travelling incognito (traveling); special palanquin for carrying a daimyo or his wife incognito
after all; because; but; even; too; as well