good fortune (esp. omikuji fortune-telling result); good luck; auspiciousness; unspecified day of the month (used to obscure the date a letter, invitation, etc. was written)
base (military, expedition, etc.)
yes; yeah; hum; hmmm; oof
fiftieth day after the birth of a child; fifty days
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
day; days; sun; sunshine; (the) day; daytime; date
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
to pass through; to pass by; to pass (of time); to elapse; to have expired; to have ended; to exceed
hot; warm; passionate; impassioned; on everybody's mind; on the radar
southern country; southern provinces; southern lands
seeming ...; appearing ...; -ish; like a ...; typical of ...
grand; magnificent; majestic; great; sublime
clouds that stand like a mountain peak during the summer
Tokushima (city, prefecture)
land near a castle; castle town
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
origin; beginning; variable measure of fabric (28.8 cm in width); for kimonos: at least 10 m in length; tip; extremity
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
flat; even; level; plain (speech, etc.); simple
to be seen; to be in sight; to look; to seem; to come
dry riverbed; river beach
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
to burn; to be roasted; to be heated; to be jealous; to be envious
like; similar to; (I) think (that); (I) have a feeling (that); feels like; feels similar to
glaringly; dazzlingly; blazingly
(the) positive; yang (in Chinese divination); the open; visible place
to shine on; to illuminate; to compare (with); to refer to
interval; break; pause; gap (e.g. in the clouds); rift; cleft
nonexistent; not being (there); unowned; not had; unique; not; impossible
echo; reverberation; sound (esp. the distinctive sound of an object or activity, e.g. rain, gun, gallop, drum); noise; quality of a sound (e.g. a fine phrase, clear voice, resonant bell); feeling of a sound
blazing heat; scorching sun
also; too; not ... either; (it's not possible) no matter what; although one might wish otherwise
to be discouraged; to shrink from
honorific/polite/humble prefix
direction; way; side (of an argument, etc.); one's part; type; category; field (of study, etc.)
from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part)