half; 50%; tie; 5 parts; 5%
home town; birthplace; native place; (arch.) ruins; (arch.) historic remains
miko; shrine maiden; young girl or woman (trad. an unmarried virgin) who assists priests at shrines; medium; sorceress; shamaness
popular person; favorite; favourite
twenty-eighth day of the month; twenty-eight days
commemoration; celebration; honoring the memory of something; turning something into a memento; memory
extravagant; absurd; unbelievable; enormous; tremendous; extraordinary
heap; pile; stack; full measure
to distribute; to hand out; to deliver; to allot; to allocate; to place (staff, soldiers, etc.)
skillful; skilful; adroit; clever; shrewd; ingenious
whirling; revolving; coiling around; winding around; working tirelessly; working hard
to wind around; to wrap around; to coil around
repeatedly opening and closing (one's mouth); gasping; flapping (e.g. shoe sole); gaping open and shut; heartily (eating); devouring
quickly, suddenly (while one is watching); before one's eyes
to eat up (completely); to put down (a rebellion); to suppress; (arch.) to make flat; (arch.) to level out
another helping; second helping; seconds; command to have dog place its second paw in one's hand
to leave a dish half-eaten
forcibly; against one's will
painful; difficult; distressing; (psychologically) difficult; straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation)
eggs; egg; (hen's) egg; (an expert) in the making; beginning; origin
to drink; to gulp; to smoke (tobacco); to engulf; to overwhelm; to keep down; to suppress
prefix for forming ordinal numbers
one act (play, etc.); scene; event
young bird; chick; fledgling; greenhorn; fledgeling; novice
to make sound (of an animal); to call; to cry; to make a meld call (e.g. pung, kong)
to be curious; to wonder; to marvel
to be too numerous; to be too much
to banter; to make fun of; to cool; to refrigerate; to window-shop; to look at without buying
tedious; boring; being fed up with
to abate; to decrease; to diminish; to shorten
abrupt; sudden; unexpected