aspiration; volunteering; desire; application
expansion; swelling; increase; growth
listening (to a lecture, hearing, parliament session, etc.); attending (without participating); sitting in (e.g. on a meeting); observing
especially; particularly; surely; clearly; as if; as though
single horseman; wait for one tile to finish one's pair and one's hand; wait for half of one's pair with four melds completed
to start; to begin; to challenge; to pick (a fight); to set (traps); to plant (explosives)
little by little; bit by bit; sparingly
biological younger brother
iron (steel) wire; Chinese clematis; Clematis florida; leather flower
handwriting; calligraphy specimen; example of penmanship; holograph
acquaintance; making someone's acquaintance
gambling mat (for dice games); altar mat for laying out offerings during the Bon festival
to shelter (e.g. a fugitive); to harbour; to harbor; to hide; to give refuge to
unintentionally; calmly; inadvertently; innocently
peace; tranquility; tranquillity; Heian period (794-1185)
to rinse; to wash out; to have one's revenge; to wipe out a disgrace
to bear; to stand; to restrain; to control; to forgive; to put up with
to be left without means of sustenance; to be turned adrift in the streets; to be rendered homeless; to be out in the cold; to be down and out
brush and paper; written description
unfilial son; undutiful son; thankless son; unfilial daughter; undutiful daughter; thankless daughter
off the top of one's head; from thin air; from memory
to cry; to weep; to sob; to howl
always; forever; very; greatly (esp. of hopes and desires)
nudity; stark naked; in one's bare skin; penniless
crying in sympathy; infectious crying
agreement; consent; same opinion; same view; same meaning
to set up; to raise; to nominate; to choose as a representative; to push; to shove
piercing; shrill; noisy; loud; clamorous; wild
to reverberate; to resound; to echo; to have one's fame spread; to be renowned
hills and fields; hill and dale
fluttering (flag, etc.); flapping; waving
books returned unsold; books returned to the library
(arch.) fast-moving rowboat; type of fast military ship
on board a ship; aboard a ship
small fishing boat; fishing smack
injustice; impropriety; unreasonableness; undeserved; unfair; invalid
turnip-shaped whistle made of hollowed-out wood or deer horn (attached to an arrow to sound when fired); arrow with such a whistle attached