quotient; business; merchant; second degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Shang dynasty (of China; approx. 1600-1046 BCE); Yin dynasty
earth; ground; place; territory; bottom (of a package, book, etc.); earth (one of the five elements)
aslant; oblique; diagonal; askew; cater-cornered; catty-cornered
to go by; to go past; to run (between; of a rail service, bus route, etc.); to operate (between); to go indoors; to go into a room; to penetrate
to come out; to fall out; to fade; to discolour; to wear a hole (e.g. clothes); to leave (e.g. a meeting); to be clear
doddering; tottering; unsteady; shaky; decrepit; infirm
grandfather; male senior-citizen
Japanese national (esp. abroad); fellow countryman
yellow and white; gold and silver; bribery; corruption
to get cloudy; to cloud over; to cloud up; to fog up; to be gloomy; to be clouded (expression)
to let (someone) hear; to tell (e.g. a story); to make (someone) listen; to make (someone) understand; to grip (someone) with skilful singing, storytelling, etc.; to hold (someone) enchanted by
Korean person (esp. North Korean); Korean people
contempt; scorn; disdain; despising; looking down on; slighting
attitude; manner; behaviour; attitude (towards an issue, etc.); position; stance
labor; labour; work; Labour Party
just (now); quite (near); unintentionally; subconsciously
counter for leaves in a book (esp. one with traditional Japanese-style binding); counter for blocks of tofu; counter for servings in a restaurant; even number; chō (unit of length, approx. 109.09 m)
vegetable; marijuana; cannabis
to straighten up and stick one's chest out; to throw oneself back (e.g. in a chair); to lean back (arrogantly); to assume a haughty attitude; to behave arrogantly
and yet; even so; nonetheless; for all that
cost of a car; carfare; honorarium (to cover transportation costs); travel expenses (customarily given by wedding hosts to guests who have travelled from afar)
to drive a bargain; to beat down the price; to haggle
to let fly; to make fly; to skip over; to leave out; to run fast; to drive fast; to spray
to arrive (by car, bike, etc.); to drive up to; to draw up at; to get used to riding; to get used to driving
to know; to understand; to (understand and) accept (a responsibility); to have a knowledge of (a skill, art, etc.); to have a command of
to come down in the world; to fall low; to be ruined; to be reduced to poverty; to fall on hard times
physical or manual labor; physical or manual labour
such; like that; that sort of
spear; lance; javelin; lance; (arch.) jeering
(ethyl) alcohol; spirits of wine
to subsist; to keep on living
once; one time; temporarily; for a moment; one degree; one tone
always; without exception; necessarily; certainly; without fail; positively
anesthetic; anaesthetic; narcotic
medicine; pharmaceuticals; efficacious chemical (gunpowder, pesticide, etc.); (pottery) glaze; (illegal) drug; narcotic
sign; indication; trace; somehow; for some reason; seeming to be
to break; to snap; to be injured; to wear out; to be worn out; to break; to burst
to throb (with pain); to ache; to smart; to rankle; to gall; to rile
orpiment (yellow mineral, or the pigment derived from it); gamboge (tree resin, or the dull yellow pigment derived from it); falsification; alteration
to writhe (in pain); to squirm; to wriggle
common carp (Cyprinus carpio); koi carp