indicates two contrasting actions; (arch.) indicates possessive (often found in place names and compound words)
town; block; street; road; 109.09 m; 0.99 hectares
town; block; downtown; main street; street; road
to throw out one's chest; to be puffed up with pride
lower back; waist; hips; body (of hair, noodle, paper, etc.); resilience; spring
size; large and small (sizes); various sizes; daishō (matched pair of long and short swords); large and small drums; long months and short months; sic bo (Macao dice game)
sword (esp. Japanese single-edged); katana; scalpel; chisel; burin; knife money (knife-shaped commodity money used in ancient China)
excess; surplus; superabundance
that being the case; because of ...; the reason is ...; given that ...
family or person with samurai ancestors
layman (esp. as opposed to a Buddhist monk); laity; local manners; modern customs; common; popular
warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period); samurai
house; residence; family; household; lineage; family name
no; nay; well; er; you're welcome; not at all
child; kid; (one's) child; offspring; young (animal); young woman; offshoot
doing; in such a state; doing together; doing to each other; familiarizing suffix (sometimes meaning "small")
first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)
immediately; at once; soon; before long; easily; readily
to understand; to comprehend; to become clear; to be known; I know!; I think so too!
to look old; to become musty; to wear out
something wrapped in a furoshiki
smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name); inferior; younger (of two people with the same name)
armpit; under one's arm; beside; close to; aside; to the side; off-track
to hold in one's arms; to carry in one's arms; to have (problems, debts, etc.); to take on (a responsibility); to employ; to have (on one's staff)
(social) position; status
-ness; indicates assertion; come; come now
sake bottle; tall and slender bottle with a narrow mouth made from ceramic, metal or glass that can be used for sake, shoyu or rice vinegar; turtleneck (sweater); non-swimmer; person who cannot swim
that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...
hand; arm; forepaw; foreleg; handle; hand; worker
you said; he said; if ... then; do you seriously think that; I already told you; you should know by now that; the said ...
possibly; apparently; (seem) likely; somehow or other; with difficulty; barely
casting; cast-metal object
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
appearing ...; looking ...; way to ...; method of ...ing; form; style
chōnin (Edo-period social class of town-dwelling commoners, esp. landowning merchants); townspeople; townsfolk; tradespeople
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
really (seem, appear, etc.); truly; evidently; in that way
wonderful; marvelous; strange; strangely enough; oddly enough; for some reason
thing; object; one's things; possessions; things; something; quality
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
to say; to utter; to name; to call; to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise
only; merely; approximately; about; just (finished, etc.); as if to; (as though) about to
retreating figure; appearance from behind
to whisper; to murmur; to rumor; to rumour
to come together; to merge; to fit; to match; to be profitable; to be equitable