continuously in some state (for a long time, distance); throughout; much (better, etc.); by far; far away; long ago
to line up; to stand in a line; to rival; to match; to equal
warehouse; storehouse; cellar; magazine; granary; godown
coming and going; traffic; road; street; association; socializing
unpolished rice; unmilled rice; brown rice
woven mat (esp. one made of straw); (arch.) seat
plentiful; lot of; much; pile of
to pile up; to stack; to load (car, ship, etc.); to pack; to acquire; to accumulate
there (place relatively near listener); there (place just mentioned); that place; then (of some incident just spoken of); that (of point just raised); (arch.) you
(husked grains of) rice; staple (product, etc.); necessity
to stir; to churn; to rummage around; to throw into confusion; to throw into chaos
to track down; to locate; to find out; to smoke out; to ferret out; to chase up
maize weevil (Sitophilus zeamais)
maize weevil (Sitophilus zeamais)
black; dark; blackish; suspicious; criminal; darkened and dirty; sooty
yellow; high-pitched (voice); shrill
family name; lineage; birth; clan
eating; bite (in fishing)
the present; present time; as of; present tense; this world; this life
certainty; reality; regular; permanent; samadhi (state of intense concentration achieved through meditation)
jewel beetle (esp. Chrysochroa fulgidissima); buprestid
at that time; in those days
to mix; to stir; to blend
to knead; to thicken into a paste (stirring over a flame); to polish (a plan, etc.); to refine; to train; to drill; to gloss (silk)
udon; thick Japanese wheat noodles
to hold in one's mouth (without biting, before chewing or swallowing, etc.)
to bite off; to gnaw through
three (long cylindrical things); three-of-a-kind (in a dealt hand)
by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally; precisely (at that time); exactly
(following a verb) to be sure to; to do (something) so that ...; to make sure to; to try to
red-light district; prostitution quarter; geisha quarter
prawn; shrimp; lobster; crayfish
prawn; shrimp; lobster; crayfish
to think of; to come up with
next; following; subsequent; stage; station
3 Japanese feet; waistband; belt; cloth girdle
tuber; taro; yokel; bumpkin; dud; worthless thing
Chinese yam (Dioscorea batatas)
to break; to be broken; to be folded; to give in; to back down; to turn (a corner)
bamboo (any grass of subfamily Bambusoideae); middle (of a three-tier ranking system)
to join together; to patch together