middle of a field; middle of a country; field of contest
15th day of the 7th lunar month; (last day of) Bon lantern festival; mid-year gift; summer gift; Bon Festival gifts
indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
-ness; indicates assertion; come; come now
to do; to carry out; to cause to become; to make (into); to serve as; to act as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start
Sichuan (province in China); Shu; Shu Han; Shu; kingdom in ancient China (-316 BCE)
food; foodstuff; eating; appetite; meal; portion
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
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
(the) positive; yang (in Chinese divination); the open; visible place
speech; tongue; dialect; brogue; bento; Japanese box lunch; petal
appearing ...; looking ...; way to ...; method of ...ing; form; style
territory (pre-Taika: under the Yamato court; Heian: under a provincial governor, etc.); (arch.) countryside
China; Han dynasty (China, 202 BCE-220 CE); Han (majority Chinese ethnic group); man
medium; average; moderation; middle school; China; volume two (of three); during (a certain time when one did or is doing something)
until (a time); till; to (a place or person); as far as; to (an extent); up to
to advance; to go forward; to precede; to go ahead (of); to make progress; to improve; to deepen
to leave; to exit; to leave (on a journey); to depart; to move forward; to come to; to get to
here; this place; this point; here; these past ... (e.g. three years); these last ...
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity
Wei; Cao Wei; kingdom in China during the Three Kingdoms period (220-266); Wei; kingdom in China during the Warring States period (403-225 BCE)
Kansai; region consisting of Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto and surrounding prefectures; Kansai; south-western half of Japan (during the feudal era)
picked troops; elite soldiers; crack troops
with; by; because of; on account of; on (a day, date); at (a time); adds emphasis to preceding word
head; chief; merit; strong point; superiority; major
cheap; rash; thoughtless; careless
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
battle formation; lineup (e.g. for a game)
Imperial General Headquarters (Japan)
there (place relatively near listener); there (place just mentioned); that place; then (of some incident just spoken of); that (of point just raised); (arch.) you
to put; to place; to leave (behind); to establish (an organization, a facility, a position, etc.); to set up; to appoint (someone to a certain position); to hire
called; named; as many as; as much as; all ...; every single ...
information; news; intelligence; information; data contained in characters, signals, code, etc.
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
precise; accurate; appropriate; exactly the right
to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed
what is called; as it is called; the so-called; so to speak
the whole world; the whole country; society; the public; supremacy over a nation; government of a country; having one's own way
steepness; steep place; harsh (look); sharp (tongue)
road approaching a shrine
to cross over; to cross; to pass through; to exceed; to surpass; to be more (than)