beneficial; profitable; useful; helpful; instructive
ambition; aspiration; sinister designs; treachery
to be rich in; to abound in; to be abundant in; to be rich; to be wealthy
temporary; provisional; fictitious; assumed (name); hypothetical; theoretical
(one's) identity; background; upbringing; (one's) character
cave dwelling; troglodytism
association; fellowship; change (of season, year, etc.)
unwritten; illiterate; uneducated; poor writing
strict; severe; stringent; rigorous; rigid; firm
to protect; to guard; to defend; to keep (i.e. a promise); to abide (by the rules); to observe
arrival of ships (from abroad); arrival by ship
the Four Heavenly Kings (Dhrtarastra, Virudhaka, Virupaksa, and Vaisravana); the big four (i.e. four leaders in a given field)
rivers and mountains; landscape
wall of rock; rock cliff; rock face
cave; tunnel; tunnel tomb (Kofun period)
several; a number of; quantity; amount; counting; figures; number
counter for places, parts, passages, etc.
ceiling; ceiling price; (price) ceiling
emptiness; hollowness; vacancy; inanity; pointlessness; meaninglessness
flat; level; calm; tranquil; relaxed (sitting posture); comfortable
edict; ordinance; proclamation
battle; fight; war; struggle; conflict
to measure; to weigh; to survey; to conjecture; to infer; to surmise
plan; trick; plot; stratagem; scheme; trap
Sun Tzu (Chinese military strategist, 544?-496 BCE); The Art of War (military text by Sun Tzu, 512 BC); Sun Bin Bing Fa (military text by Sun Bin)
art of war; strategy; tactics
mark; target; object; subject; point (e.g. of argument)
growing impudent; becoming arrogant; getting stuck-up; becoming more severe (esp. regarding something bad); increasing
to crawl out; to creep out; to begin to crawl
trick; trap; stratagem; intraoperative; during surgery