first day of the month; (arch.) first ten days of the lunar month
fifteenth day of the month; fifteen days
quotient; dealing; dealer; second degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Shang dynasty (China, approx. 1600-1046 BCE); Yin dynasty
married couple; husband and wife; man and wife; his and hers; pair of objects, one larger (for man), one smaller (for woman)
husband and wife travelling together (traveling)
to come along; to come around; to turn up; to arrive at the present; to get where one is; to have been doing something (for a period of time)
loose articles (not packaged with other things); bulk items; individual items; coins; small change
talent; gift; function; noh (theatre)
to hesitate to say; to find it difficult to say
hire (charge); rent; charge; fare; fee; freight
aim; object; expectations; prospects; something that can be relied upon; snack served with alcoholic drink; pad
meal; Emperor's meal; meal of a noble; high-quality (of a food or drink); premium
mourning; abstinence; taboo; religious purification; pure; holy
feces (esp. animal); excrement; dung
to avoid; to refrain from; to shun; to detest
to put on airs; to act big; to throw one's weight about; to be overbearing; to be domineering; to be bossy
imposition (i.e. of rules, of a decision); compulsion
look like; sound like; savor of; smack of
possibly; apparently; (seem) likely; somehow or other; with difficulty; barely
narrow; confined; small; limited; narrow-minded; confining
to send; to forward; to hand over (e.g. money)
request; favour (to ask); wish; please
to put one's palms together (e.g. when praying or asking for something); to place one's hands together; to compete against somebody; to play (a game, match, etc.) against somebody
honest; frank; candid; honestly; frankly
another place; somewhere else; outside (one's family or group); someone else; not caring for; being indifferent to
to empty; to vacate; to evacuate
graciousness; mercy; charity
Qin dynasty (of China; 221-207 BCE); Ch'in dynasty
counter for rules; rule; regulation
discouragement; despondency; dejection; disappointment
to be disappointed; to be dejected; to be downhearted; to feel exhausted; to feel drained
yesterday evening; last night
dullard; indecisive person
to kick away; to kick off; to kick hard; to refuse curtly; to reject outright
dispute; strife; quarrel; dissension; conflict; rivalry
dejected; dispirited; crestfallen; discouraged
appearance; look; a 'seeming' that fortune-tellers relate to one's fortune; aspect; phase (e.g. solid, liquid and gaseous)
grandfather (may be used after name as honorific); male senior-citizen (may be used after name as honorific)
to (call and) stop; to call (someone) to stop; to hail (e.g. a taxi)