play; sport; fun; caprice; joke; jest
sure; no mistaking it; for certain; without doubt
seeing two people (i.e. romantically) at the same time; two-timing; bifurcation; fork; fence-sitting; playing it both ways
doburoku (unrefined sake)
annotation; explanatory note; comment
yawn; yawning; kanji "yawning" radical (radical 76)
crime; sin; penalty; sentence; fault; responsibility
will; resolution; kindness; goodwill; gift (as a token of gratitude)
New Year's Eve; December 31
scolding; telling-off; rebuke; complaint; grumbling; fault-finding
to write down; to note; to jot down; to remember
futon; Japanese bedding consisting of a mattress and a duvet; round cushion used for Zen meditation (traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves)
to strip a person of all his or her clothes; to leave someone with nothing; to leave someone penniless; to steal someone blind
marriage ceremony; wedding
(one's) Sunday best; (one's) best clothes; glad rags
nightclothes; nightwear; sleepwear; pyjamas; pajamas; nightgown
to become verminous; to be infested with insects; to begin to keep bad company; to have an (unfavorable, unfavourable) lover
fixed; settled; constant; definite; uniform; regularized
to turn over (face down); to lay face down; to point downwards (eyes, head, etc.); to cast down (eyes); to lie (one's body) face down; to lie flat (on the ground)
dog (Canis (lupus) familiaris); squealer; rat; loser; asshole; counterfeit
to get up; to rise; to wake up; to be awake; to occur (usu. of unfavourable incidents); to happen
to save; to rescue; to help; to assist; to support (financially); to contribute (to)
importance; emphasis; stress
imperial capital (esp. Kyoto); final word of an iroha poem; 10^16; 10,000,000,000,000,000
mountain climbing; mountaineering
Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica)
branch; bough; limb; twig; sprig; spray
to break; to fracture; to fold; to bend; to make (origami); to interrupt
prayer; grace (at meals); exorcism
hit; success; guess; prediction; affability; friendliness; sensation
making a prayer (to a god or Buddha)
one turn; spinning around; complete change; reversal; (an) about-face
always; all the time; never; usual; regular
to get on a horse; to mount a horse
to become thin; to lose weight; to reduce (one's) weight; to be barren; to be infertile; to be sterile
Gautama Buddha; Shakyamuni; the historical Buddha
poorly made article; defective article; Gautama Buddha
nasal discharge; nasal mucus; snot; booger; bogey
to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do; to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features; to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside
have no relation to; have no luck with; not be fated to