river surface; surface of a river
skin; hide; rind; peel; shell; sheath
coming; going; being (somewhere); come; go; stay
one color; one colour; one article; same tendency; everyone being caught up in the same thing
Buddhist priest; bonze; layman dressed like a priest; person
to hold between (e.g. one's fingers, chopsticks); to grip (from both sides); to put between; to sandwich between; to catch (e.g. a finger in a door); to trap; to insert (e.g. a break into proceedings)
tightly; closely; exactly; precisely; suddenly (stopping)
stillness; repose; standing still
to crowd; to flock; to swarm
literally; to the letter; literal
fighting with one's back to the wall; having burnt one's bridges; last stand; from strategy of general Han Xin in the Battle of Jingxing
sluggishly; slowly; ploddingly; stolidly (standing); impassively
to coil around; to follow about; to be related to; to concern; to be associated with
to protect (someone); to look after (e.g. an injured leg); to defend; to cover for; to stand up for; to stick up for
landing; going ashore; disembarkation; making landfall (of a typhoon); striking land; hitting land
front part; frontage; facade; initial pledge (e.g. election); opening slogan
turning round; going around; turning about; surrounding; encircling
apiece; each; at a time; piecemeal
pole; rod; line; dash; spoken monotonously
earnestly; immediately; exactly
push; pushing; weight; pressure; authority; forcefulness
silently; hushed; in a still manner
everyone; everybody; all; everything; all
devising (a way); contriving; device; design; dedication to spiritual improvement (esp. through Zen meditation)
rise; increase; income; takings; completion; end; end result (e.g. of crafts)
edge; brink; verge; time; moment of
to hang; to suspend; to dangle; to swing; to carry
ecstatically; spellbound; with rapt attention; abstractedly; absentmindedly; absorbedly
source (e.g. of a river); headwaters; origin of something continuous (language, culture, etc.)
(school) period; period or division of time; time limit
water and moon; the Moon reflected on the water; pit of the stomach; solar plexus
friend; ally; supporter; taking sides with; supporting; standing by
to hang; to suspend; to hang oneself; to hoist an opponent off of his feet by his loincloth; to turn upwards (as if being pulled); to be slanted (of eyes)
to approach; to draw near; to gather (in one place); to come together; to stop by (while on one's way to another place); to drop by; to grow old
period of time (usu. a period of approx. two hours corresponding to one of the signs of the Chinese zodiac); carving; engraving; victory; strictness; cruelty
to mince; to cut fine; to carve; to engrave; to tick away (time); to beat out (e.g. rhythm); to etch (into one's mind)
nothing; naught; nought; un-; non-
rhyme; rhyme (of a Chinese character); rime