to sever; to cut off; to suppress; to eradicate; to abstain (from); to give up
to air; to dry; to drain (off); to drink up; to deprive of a role, job, etc.
unkindness; unfriendliness
to be hit; to strike; to touch; to be in contact; to be equivalent to; to be applicable; to be right on the money (of a prediction, criticism, etc.)
kanji "large village" radical at right (radical 163)
Okayama prefecture (Chūgoku area)
credit; money owed on an account; bill; hot noodles in broth; proportion (of wholesale price, as tenths of list price); in the midst of; rest
Japanese laurel; spotted laurel; Aucuba japonica; live tree
hard; solid; stiff; tight; strong; firm (not viscous or easily moved); safe
door (esp. Japanese-style); shutter; window shutter; (arch.) entrance (to a home); (arch.) narrows
to throw away; to cast away; to abandon; to desert; to give up; to resign
mixing; mixture; meld; miscegenation
to receive punishment; to be punished; to pay a penalty
to join together; to patch together
meeting; assembly; party; society; association; club
salt; common salt; hardship; toil; saltiness; cold
remote mountain; mountain recesses
precious; valuable; priceless; noble; exalted; sacred
art; technique; means; way; trick; trap
tide; current; sea water; opportunity; chance; thin soup of fish or shellfish boiled in seawater
somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of
quiet conversation; gossiping; idle talk
Fukushima prefecture (Tōhoku area)
other; another; over; more than; I; me
to convey; to report; to transmit; to communicate; to tell; to impart
to speak with an accent; to be corrupted (of word); to mispronounce
base (military, expedition, etc.)
unmarried woman; Miss; -ess; -ette
woman; girl; daughter; Chinese "Girl" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
(mental) attitude; way of thinking; attention; care; prudence; intention
general resemblance; being largely the same; uniting with a common goal; Daidō era (806.5.18-810.9.19)
twenty-fourth day of the month; twenty-four days
food; foodstuff; eating; appetite; meal; portion
rice gruel with adzuki beans
thin rice porridge; watery cooked rice; rice gruel; breakfast (in Zen temples)
incomplete understanding; doubt; question; distrust; suspicion; strangeness
poverty-stricken; destitute; poor; penurious