close (e.g. of business); leaving (e.g. school); being outdone; compare unfavourably (with); closing price (stockmarket); sink mark (casting, moulding)
3 Japanese feet; waistband; belt; cloth girdle
angle; square; cube; bishop; third degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Chinese "horn" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); jiao (monetary unit of China; one-tenth of a yuan)
technique; art; skill; move
abacus; soroban; calculation (esp. of profit and loss); reckoning
if anything; if pushed I'd say; if I had to say
furthermore; adding to the above-mentioned; not quite; not very good; lacking
place; point; part; counter for places, parts, passages, etc.
many; much; plenty; hardly
if anything; if pushed I'd say; if I had to say
nine times; twisting around many times
daytime; during the day; time from sunrise until sunset; diurnal period
and; thereupon; because of that
coffee room (hotel, office building, etc.); tea room
house; home; one's house; one's home; one's husband
speech; tongue; dialect; brogue; bento; Japanese box lunch; petal
to give one's name (as); to introduce oneself (as); to claim to be; to call oneself; to reveal oneself (as); to admit to being
father; dad; husband; you; he
overseas travel (to Western countries); going abroad (to study or travel); store operated by a foreigner (in pre-communist China)
together; at the same time; same; identical
the number of people; many people; a large number of people; (counted as an) adult
fried prawns; fried shrimp
sashimi (raw sliced fish, shellfish or crustaceans)
recognition; awareness; perception; understanding; knowledge; cognition
house for rent; rented house; renting a house
landlord; landlady; house owner; home owner; head of the household
to drink; to gulp; to smoke (tobacco); to engulf; to overwhelm; to keep down; to suppress
to deceive; to falsify; to dodge; to beg the question (issue, difficulties); to varnish over; to gloss over
banknote; bill; note; paper money
to be lost (e.g. luggage); to be missing; to be used up; to be run out; to disappear (e.g. pain); to be lost (e.g. a dream, confidence)
clamour; clamor; uproar; tumult; furore; furor
to come; to go; to be (somewhere); to be (doing)
habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle
occasionally; once in a while; now and then; rarely; seldom