manual labor; manual labour; toil; Labour Party
to end; to be finished; to die; to perish; to do utterly; to do completely
mood; sentiment; artistic effect
Wu; region in China, south of the lower Yangtze; Wu; Southern Wu; Wu; Eastern Wu
place in the shade of a mountain; shelter of the mountains; mountain recess
water damage; flood disaster
opening (of a new road, railway, etc.); going into operation (e.g. telephone communication); beginning services; reopening (e.g. a road to traffic); resumption of services
hope; promise; expectation; anticipation; side of a structural member
far from; anything but; not at all; let alone; to say nothing of; not to mention
investigation; examination; inquiry; enquiry; survey
contacting; (making) contact; connection (with a train, bus, etc.); joining (a railway line, etc.); connection (between matters, incidents, etc.); relation
basket; basketball; basket cloth
day by day; every day; by the day
tie-dye; tie-dyeing; aperture (e.g. camera, iris of the eye); aperture stop; contraction; squeezing
to shorten; to narrow; to close; to shrink
conflict; complication; troubles; discord
to be entwined; to be involved
open verandah; open veranda
feature; trait; characteristic; peculiarity; distinction
handwriting; calligraphy specimen; example of penmanship; holograph
correspondence; news; letter; tidings
to sever; to cut off; to suppress; to eradicate; to abstain (from); to give up
deep affection; dear; beloved
Japanese writing paper (lined with a square grid, one square per character); manuscript paper
one copy (of a document); one letter; one-way traffic; pure straight; winning hand containing nine consecutive tiles of the same suit (i.e. 1-9)
remittance; sending money
homecoming; returning home
university; college; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)
proceeding to the capital (Tokyo)
letter; note; epistle; correspondence
secret; private; surreptitious
pride; boast; credit (to)
broke; poor; short; skint; having no money
eternal; unlimited; endless
the future (usually distant); future tense; the world to come
all that one has; all that there is; the whole
to lose; to miss (a change, opportunity); to lose (a loved one); to be bereaved of; to concede (goals, points, etc.)
tide; current; sea water; opportunity; chance; thin soup of fish or shellfish boiled in seawater
to surround; to encircle; to enclose
expectation; assume will happen; forecast