crude; rough; plain; humble; shabby
origin; source; base; basis; cause; ingredient; material
to reel; to wind; to turn (pages); to flip through (a book); to count (e.g. the days); to open one-by-one
Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; politeness marker
after that; afterwards; thereafter
without change; as is; just like; extremely similar; immediately; just after
yes; that is correct; um; errr; huh?; grrr
(nth) power; counter for vehicles; multiplication; Buddha's teachings
Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica)
it seems; I think; I guess; right?; don't you agree?
piece of paper; slip of paper; strip of paper; scrap of paper
haiku; 17-mora poem, usu. in 3 lines of 5, 7 and 5 morae
space (between); gap; period of time (during, while); duration; between (two parties or things); among (a group); relations (between)
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)
honorific/polite/humble prefix
repeated at intervals; every other (day, week, month, ...)
to find out; to discover; to locate
to go; to come; to be defeated; to collapse; to be annoyed; to be nonplussed
to look at again; to re-examine (policy, estimate, plan, etc.); to review; to get a better opinion of; to see in a more positive light; to improve
counter for doses of medicine, etc.
to attach; to join; to furnish (a house with); to wear; to put on; to keep a diary; to make an entry
that day; the very same day
article; news story; report; account
armpit; under one's arm; beside; close to; aside; to the side; off-track
painstaking; careful; meticulous; scrupulous; detailed; elaborate
to paste; to stick; to affix; to station; to post
chit; sales slip; voucher
blank form; sheets of paper; sheet of paper
scribbling; scrawl; hasty writing
to write (e.g. a letter); to draw up (a document); to take down (e.g. notes); to have (lunch, dinner, etc.); to eat
exceedingly; extremely; decisively
decipherment; interpretation; making out; identification
flying; leaping; zero; naught; flying fish (esp. the Japanese flying fish, Cypselurus agoo); running out of points (zero or fewer)
to cure; to heal; to fix; to correct; to do over again; to replace
writing brush; paintbrush; writing with a brush; drawing with a brush; writing (composing text); the written word
almost; roughly; approximately
with no effort at all; easily