indicates two contrasting actions; (arch.) indicates possessive (often found in place names and compound words)
time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity
end; tip; end (of the year, month, etc.); close; youngest child; descendants; offspring
seeming ...; appearing ...; -ish; like a ...; typical of ...
neighboring villages; neighbouring villages; suburban districts
poor; needy; lacking (quantity and quality-wise); poor; scanty
town; block; street; road; 109.09 m; 0.99 hectares
wayside teahouse; tea house used as a resting place
red; crimson; Red; communist; (arch.) beautiful
kaki; Japanese persimmon (Diospyros kaki)
truth; reality; sincerity; honesty; content; substance
branch; bough; limb; twig; sprig; spray
vine; bine; bow; temple arm; connections; contacts
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen
those (near the second person)
to enter; to go into; to break into; to join; to enroll; to contain; to hold
to get tired; to tire; to become worn out (of a well-used object); (arch.) to starve
foot; paw; leg; gait; pace; bottom structural component (i.e. radical) of a kanji; means of transportation
rate; ratio; profit; assignment; 10%; unit of ten percent; match
to rest; to suspend; to give relief
tea; tea plant (Camellia sinensis); tea preparation; making tea; brown; (arch.) mockery
to drink; to gulp; to smoke (tobacco); to engulf; to overwhelm; to keep down; to suppress
tobacco; cigarette; cigaret; tobacco plant (Nicotiana tabacum)
to smoke (a cigarette); to behave as ...; to accelerate; to rev up
ignorance; innocence; stupidity
teahouse; (Edo period) rest stop; (geisha) teahouse; establishment where patrons are entertained by geisha; tea house (that sells tea); tea dealer
female; woman; female sex; female lover; girlfriend; mistress
to give; to let (one) have; to give; to do for one; to take the trouble to do; to do to someone's disadvantage
rice cracker seasoned with soy sauce; salty rice cracker
to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
cowardly; timid; easily frightened
eye; eyeball; eyesight; sight; look; stare; notice
there (place relatively near listener); there (place just mentioned); that place; then (of some incident just spoken of); that (of point just raised); (arch.) you
to look around; to survey
until now; so far; up to the present
to darken; to get dark; to be clouded; to be hidden (behind clouds)
(surface of) field; plain; unworked surface of (quarried) stone; (rough) surface of plank
cold (e.g. weather); uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull
wind; breeze; manner; behaviour; cold; influenza
to blow (of the wind); to blow (one's breath); to breathe out; to play (a wind instrument); to blow (a whistle, trumpet, etc.); to emit (smoke, fire, etc.); to spout
people; (all) persons; you (usu. plural); various
cluster of trees; grove; thicket