rhyming game; play on words; pun
to overdo; to go to excess; to indulge; to act licentiously
occasionally; now and then; sometimes
hail (esp. hailballs under 5 mm); graupel; dicing; small cubes; roasted mochi pieces (usu. flavoured with soy sauce, etc.)
nearby mountain; mountain near a human settlement
snow melting; water from melting snow
young greens; young herbs
to pile up; to stack; to load (car, ship, etc.); to pack; to acquire; to accumulate
mountain recess; deep in the mountains
remaining bony parts (of a fish after filleting); flaw (esp. of a person); fault; rice chaff; rough; crude
to stick; to paste; to stretch; to spread; to form (e.g. ice on a pond); to fill; to swell
flowers in full bloom; time of year in which flowers are in full bloom; the age at which someone (esp. a woman) is at the peak of their beauty; booming or peaking (in popularity)
to look out over; to survey (scene); to take an extensive view of
next (to); adjoining; adjacent; house next door; neighbouring house; next-door neighbour
-ian (e.g. Italian); -ite (e.g. Tokyoite); -er (e.g. performer, etc.); person working with ...; man; person
home town; birthplace; native place; (arch.) ruins; (arch.) historic remains
kind; sort; type; equal; match; peer
to spread out; to lay out; to take a position; to impose widely (e.g. over a city)
blue; azure; green; green light (traffic); black (horse coat color); blue 5-point card; immature
minute (unit of time); fun (one tenth of a monme, 5.787 grains)
whitecaps; white-crested waves; thief
gentle spring rain; thin noodles made from bean starch (or potato starch)
to dye; to colour; to color
foot of a mountain; plain at the foot of a mountain; range; spread; extent
to become clear (water, air, etc.); to become transparent; to resonate clearly (e.g. voice); to become serene; to become tranquil; to pronounce as an unvoiced sound
water (esp. cool, fresh water, e.g. drinking water); fluid (esp. in an animal tissue); liquid; flood; floodwaters; water offered to wrestlers just prior to a bout
here and there; in places
common; commonplace; reckless; pulp paper; granulated sugar; (arch.) coins
foot; paw; leg; gait; pace; bottom structural component (i.e. radical) of a kanji; means of transportation
to age; to grow old (esp. in appearance); to show marks of age
to empty; to vacate; to evacuate
Japanese apricot (Prunus mume); Japanese plum; ume; lowest (of a three-tier ranking system)
to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)
male carer (at a nursery school, children's home, etc.); childcare worker
dawn; daybreak; beginning
be that the case, do so; do as you please; in any case