sound; noise; (speech) sound; Chinese-derived reading of a kanji
district; area; zone; quarter; section; region
honorific/polite/humble prefix
birch (esp. Japanese white birch)
district; county; district (of 2-20 50-home neighbourhoods or townships, in the ritsuryō period); commandery (in China)
line; stripe; line (e.g. telephone line); wire; ray (e.g. X-ray); beam; line (e.g. of a railroad)
iron (Fe); steel; iron (will, discipline, lady, etc.); railway; railway enthusiast
filtration; filtering; percolation
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix
line to fold along (e.g. origami, packaging); bend line
retention; maintenance; preservation
to dig up; to dig out; to pick (nose, teeth, etc.); to pry into; to examine closely; to dredge up
hard fight; close game; struggle; tight contest
jūbako; multi-tiered food box; heavy; serious; extreme; -fold
satisfactory; decent; good; proper; worthy
(one's) exclusive use; private use; dedicated use; use for a particular purpose; exclusive use (of particular products); using only (e.g. a certain brand)
child (esp. a boy); viscount; founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius); master; masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature); (arch.) you; -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing ...)
to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to hear about; to hear of; to follow (advice, order, etc.)
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
this way; this direction; here; this (one); I; me
at; in; to; toward; to; for; because of
to come; to go; to be (somewhere); to be (doing)
the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...
right?; isn't it?; hey; say; you know; you see; will you?
a little; a bit; a little while; a short time; a little way; a short distance
to search for; to look for; to hunt for; to search (a house, pocket, etc.); to search through; to rummage in (e.g. a drawer)
to finish; to stop; to close (a business, etc.); to close down; to put away; to put back
indicates emotion or admiration; indicates emphasis; I; me; wah!; boo!
by no means; never!; certainly (not); surely (not); something unexpected; emergency
height; stature; length (esp. of clothing); all (one has); everything; magnificence (of a waka poem, etc.)
things like; something like; someone like; such a thing as; (the fact) that; to think that
going and worshipping (at a shrine or temple); visit (to a shrine or temple to worship)
that; it; then; that point (in time); (arch.) there; (arch.) you
certainly; of course; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how); without even; without so much as; at the (least, earliest, etc.)
at; in; at; when; by; with; so
to be; to come; to go; to be (doing)
indicates a question; indicates an embedded question; indicates an indirect question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm
either way; in any case; one way or another
immediately; at once; soon; before long; easily; readily