skillful; skilled; proficient; flattery
professor; teaching; instruction
had better ...; had better not ...
tough; hard; determined; strong-minded; strong (e.g. sunlight, alcohol); severe
bitter smile; wry smile; strained laugh; sarcastic laugh
old tale; folk tale; legend; reminiscence
various; a variety of; all kinds of; many; diverse
oblong stand for trays of food; weighing table
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)
rebuilding; reconstruction; rehabilitation; protoform reconstruction
(act of) building (temple, monument, etc.); erection
appropriate; adequate; suitable; fitting; worthy
role; duty; position; part
don't you think?; indicates question
benevolence (esp. as a virtue of Confucianism); consideration; human; kernel; nucleolus
talent; gift; function; noh (theatre)
some; several; many; how many; how much; very
to ingest; to eat; to enter the mouth; to be able to eat
skin; hide; rind; peel; shell; sheath
skillful; skilful; adroit; clever; shrewd; ingenious
paper folded and tucked inside the front of one's kimono (esp. for use at the tea ceremony); paper used for writing tanka
center; centre; middle; -centered; -centred; -focused
serious; earnest; real sword (as opposed to a wooden practice weapon)
to act as one pleases; to throw one's weight around; to have everything one's own way; to grow freely (e.g. of weeds)
ultimate; final; last; eventual
self-destruction; ruining oneself; natural decay; perishing naturally
tracking down and killing; punitive expedition
deep pool; deep water; abyss; depths (e.g. of despair); grip (e.g. of death)
chasing down; pushing down; deposing; connect-and-die; oiotoshi; position where, even after connecting a group of stones in atari, the group remains in atari and can still be captured without any possibility of saving it
the other day; some days ago; recently; a day in the past
family; clan; sect; school; group of related sumo stables
Chinese juniper (Juniperus chinensis)
to meet (by chance); to come across; to meet (e.g. of rivers, highways, etc.); to emerge and engage (an enemy)
judgment (of a crime); conviction; condemnation; beheading; decapitation
medium-ranked councillor in the Department of State
going; travelling; act; action; bank; counter for banks; counter for groups or parties of people
entering the priesthood; priest; monk; bonze
establishment; founding; setting (a record)
latent; hidden; secret; behind the scenes
to carry weight; to be important; to have influence; to be a leading figure; to be esteemed
legal wife of an emperor or king; first wife; queen consort; empress
anti-; antithesis; fanqie; traditional Chinese spelling system in which two characters are used: the first one for the onset, the second one for rhyme and tone