hello (e.g. on phone); excuse me! (when calling out to someone)
mouthful; morsel; gulp; sip; one word; in short
to say; to utter; to name; to call; to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise
pattern; behavioural pattern; behavioral pattern; predictability
various; varied; diverse; all sorts of
itself; one's own body; oneself; originally; naturally
useless; no future in it; doesn't make sense; having no point
tanuki (Nyctereutes procyonoides); raccoon dog; sly dog; sly old fox; sly fox
writing; composition; essay; sentence
meaning; significance; sense
to pull out; to draw out; to omit; to leave out; to do to the end; to carry through; to let out (e.g. air from a tyre)
to have meaning; to be meaningful
something like ...; something called ...
picture; drawing; painting; image (TV, film, etc.); picture; footage
key; lock; key (to a problem); clue
but; however; (and) yet; nevertheless; still; for all that
to be hit; to strike; to touch; to be in contact; to be equivalent to; to be applicable; to be right on the money (of a prediction, criticism, etc.)
next; following; subsequent; stage; station
handwriting; calligraphy specimen; example of penmanship; holograph
tool; implement; means; furniture
handwriting; handwritten; hand-painted; hand-drawn
information; news; intelligence; information; data contained in characters, signals, code, etc.
treasury; treasure house; storehouse; treasure trove; rich source (of)
certain; sure; doubtless; I have no doubt; You can depend on it; It's a safe bet
myself; yourself; I; me; you
character (esp. kanji); letter; handwriting; penmanship; the ... word (e.g. "the L word" = "love")
disorder; disturbance; unrest
to be at one's wits' end; to be cornered; (lit.) to be packed to the hilt
state of affairs (around you); situation; circumstances
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
certainly; of course; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how); without even; without so much as; at the (least, earliest, etc.)
judgement; judgment; expert opinion; appraisal
difficulty; hardship; trouble; infeasibility; inability (to carry out)
police; police officer; police station
conviction; belief; confidence
a short while ago; a moment ago; just now; some time ago
to say; to speak; to tell; to talk