autumn colours; fall colors; leaves turning red; red leaves; leaves turning yellow; yellow leaves; (Japanese) maple (Acer japonicum)
jūbako; multi-tiered food box
twelve; 12; queen (playing card)
form; method; system; formula
to tie; to bind; to bear (fruit); to close (e.g. deal); to confirm; to connect (two distant places); to close tightly
to clasp; to grasp; to hold (the answer); to have (e.g. the solution); to seize (power); to hold (the reins)
two (long cylindrical things)
apiece; each; at a time; piecemeal
to tie; to link; to connect; to correlate
coincidence; chance; by chance; unexpectedly; contingency
to be tied together; to be connected to; to lead to; to be related to; to be related (by blood)
year; age; years; past one's prime; old age
abundant harvest; bumper crop
10^12; 1,000,000,000,000; trillion; sign; omen; indication
cooking, esp. frying or stir-frying; heating; tempering; -ware
marriage; marriage tie; love knot
(practical) application; putting to practical use; applied
small; little; slight; below average (in degree, amount, etc.); low (e.g. sound); soft (e.g. voice)
hearth; fireplace; furnace; kiln
to burn; to be roasted; to be heated; to be jealous; to be envious
to swell (out); to expand; to be inflated; to get cross; to get sulky; to pout
female; woman; female sex; female lover; girlfriend; mistress
to turn one's hand to; to reach out one's hand; to get involved in; to make a move on; to strike; to beat
daughter; girl (i.e. a young, unmarried woman)
to resound; to make a stir
meaning; significance; sense
whole life; a lifetime; all through life; (the only, the greatest, etc.) of one's life
to become misty; to become hazy; to get blurry; to grow dim; to be overshadowed; to be upstaged
common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus)
shape; form; appearance; state; situation; suitable
to make sound (of an animal); to call; to cry; to make a meld call (e.g. pung, kong)
words; writing; ci (form of Chinese poetry); independent word
to part (usu. of people); to part from; to separate (of a couple); to break up; to lose (e.g. one's mother); to be bereaved
along (wall, coast, river, etc.); alongside; following
to begin a trip; to depart; to embark; to die; to pass away; to depart this life
land near a castle; castle town
cloth; bujian (spade-shaped bronze coin of ancient China)
August; eighth month of the lunar calendar