neighboring town; neighbouring town; adjacent town
neighbourhood; neighborhood
junior high school; middle school; lower secondary school
illness (usu. excluding minor ailments, e.g. common cold); disease; bad habit; bad behaviour; crazy; insane
living together (with one more person)
to lose (through death) (e.g. wife, child)
Buddhist (household) altar
putting money aside; savings; deposit (e.g. in a bank); accumulated surplus of wins; wins in the bank
to use up; to exhaust; to wear out
at that time; in those days
to be stormy; to be rough; to be rough (of skin); to be chapped; to be ruined; to fall into ruin
paid dating (esp. with an underage girl; oft. involving selling of sex); compensated dating
compensated dating; dating a sugar daddy
one move (in go, shogi, etc.); only way; only means; doing alone; doing single-handed
to go smoothly; to turn out well; to do the trick; to have peaceful relations
senior high school; high school
graduation; completion (of a course); moving on (from); outgrowing (something); leaving (a group, company, etc.)
at the same time as; while; as well as (multiple roles)
to meet (by chance); to come across; to meet (e.g. of rivers, highways, etc.); to emerge and engage (an enemy)
to fry; to saute; to stir-fry
certainty; reality; regular; permanent; samadhi (state of intense concentration achieved through meditation)
how many times; how many degrees (temperature, angle, etc.)
being beaten by one's opponent's persistence; being outlasted; running out of patience; giving in; succumbing (to)
chance; start; cue; excuse; motive; impetus
something; something or other; so-and-so; somehow; anyhow; one way or another
half-moon; half a month; semicircle
to be in time (for); to serve (suit, meet) the purpose; to be good enough; to be enough
amount necessary to fill a container (e.g. cupful, spoonful, etc.); drink (usu. alcoholic); full; one squid, octopus, crab, etc.; one boat; fully; to capacity
then; and then; and; if so; because then; if that's the case
to make; to produce; to prepare (food); to brew (alcohol); to raise; to grow; to till
to be contrary to one's expectations
unexpected; unforeseen; strange
damp; humid; wet; gloomy; melancholy
to sniffle; to snuffle; to sob
sound; noise; note; fame; Chinese-derived character reading