one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start
warm; mild; (pleasantly) hot; considerate; kind; genial
cooked rice; meal; food; one's living; livelihood
female; woman; female sex; female lover; girlfriend; mistress
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
charm; attractiveness; humanity
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...
evening; night; dinner; evening meal; counter for nights
snake; serpent; large snake
waterfall; (arch.) rapids
to hold in one's arms (e.g. a baby); to embrace; to have sex with; to make love to; to sit on (eggs); to brood
retirement (to a temple of shrine) for prayer
temple; shrine; hall; company; (arch.) front room
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
again; once more; a second time
fleeting; transient; short-lived; empty (dream, etc.); mere (hope); faint (possibility)
to hang up (e.g. a coat, a picture on the wall); to let hang; to put on (e.g. a blanket); to put on top of; to put on (glasses, etc.); to wear (a necklace, etc.); to make (a call)
by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally; precisely (at that time); exactly
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
last night; yesterday evening
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
to differ (from); to vary; to not be in the usual condition; to not match the correct (answer, etc.); to be different from promised; isn't it?
gently (raining); drizzling; moist; damp
rain; rainy day; rainy weather; the November suit (in hanafuda)
eaves; narrow aisle surrounding the core of a temple building
indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
to go around; to return; to surround; to concern (usu. of disputes)
raindrops (dripping from eaves, branches, etc.); exclamation point; exclamation mark
sound; noise; note; fame; Chinese-derived character reading
pillow; bolster; introduction (e.g. to a rakugo story); lead-in
to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to hear about; to hear of; to follow (advice, order, etc.)
lonely; lonesome; solitary; desolate
inside; within; while (e.g. one is young); during; among; amongst; in (secret, chaos, poverty, etc.)
ecstatically; spellbound; with rapt attention; abstractedly; absentmindedly; absorbedly
to try to ...; to be about to do ...; to decide to ...; to take as; to treat as; to use for; to suppose that (such) is the case
overhead; above one's head; high in the sky
far away; far off; far; long ago; long before
person; someone; human beings; mankind; human (Homo sapiens); (other) people; others