to be fragrant; to smell (good); to stink; to smell (bad); to glow; to be bright
bamboo (any grass of subfamily Bambusoideae); middle (of a three-tier ranking system)
order; item (of a budget revision, etc.); counter for go pieces; counter for surrounded positions (in go)
to turn; to rotate; to pass around; to send around; to move (someone or something to where its needed); to send; to turn (to a new use)
to cross over (e.g. mountain); to go across; to get over (e.g. hardship); to pass time (e.g. a winter); to surpass; to be better than; to move house
(raised) footpath between rice fields; ridge between rice fields
wind; breeze; manner; behaviour; cold; influenza
to clear up; to clear away; to refresh (e.g. spirits); to be cleared (e.g. of a suspicion); to be dispelled; to be banished
occasional; infrequent; rare
water (esp. cool, fresh water, e.g. drinking water); fluid (esp. in an animal tissue); liquid; flood; floodwaters; water offered to wrestlers just prior to a bout
to freeze; to be frozen over; to congeal
frost; white hair; grey hair; gray hair
to become loose; to slacken (e.g. rope); to become less tense; to relax; to slacken (e.g. coldness, supervision); to become lax; to become softer (e.g. ground, facial expression)
carelessly; thoughtlessly; inadvertently
to glide; to slide (e.g. on skis); to fail (an examination); to bomb (when telling a joke); to drop; to go down
laugh; laughter; smile; sneer; sex aids (e.g. dildos, pornographic books, erotic woodblock prints, etc.)
to float; to set afloat; to show on one's face (smile, sadness, etc.); to recall; to call to mind
splendid; magnificent; utter (esp. defeat); total; (arch.) something worth seeing; (arch.) sight
to rise; to go up; to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade; to get out (of water)
rather; sooner; preferably
as is; as it is; as things are; like this; this way; at this rate
flight; running away; absconding; elopement
somehow or other; for some reason or another; without knowing why
instability; insecurity; crankiness
construction worker; laborer (labourer); navvy
coolie; laborer; labourer; carrier
(on) one's own; (by) oneself
to follow around; to shadow; to tag along; to haunt one (e.g. feeling, failure); to follow one
far from; anything but; not at all; let alone; to say nothing of; not to mention
reverse; opposite; converse (of a hypothesis, etc.); inverse (function)
use; utilization; utilisation; application
head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); proprietress; (arch.) entertaining someone as one's guest
great; grand; magnificent; outstanding; mighty
that is to say; that is; in short; in brief; clogging; obstruction; shrinkage
to bite; to chew; to gnaw; to fumble one's words (esp. during a play, broadcast, etc.); to falter with one's words; to crash against (e.g. of waves); to break onto (shore)
to recall; to remember; to recollect
seed (e.g. of a plant); pip; material (e.g. for an article); matter (e.g. of a story); ingredient; leaven (bread); cause
in the same way as; just like
to pull out; to take out; to lead out (e.g. a horse from a stable); to summon (e.g. to court); to withdraw (money); to draw
blindness; blind person; illiteracy; illiterate person; ignorance; ignoramus
grain; bead; drop; counter for small round objects including grains, seeds, pills, drops
by the way; incidentally; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how)