silver (Ag); silver coin; money; silver medal; silver colour; silver color
club; fraternity; sorority; clubhouse
well; properly; best regards; please remember me; just like ...; as though one were ...
request; favour (to ask); wish; please
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
ah!; oh!; yes; indeed; aah; gah
just (now); quite (near); unintentionally; subconsciously
to untie; to unfasten; to unsew; to unstitch; to solve; to work out; to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.)
this sort of; this kind of; like this; such
to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that; to be the result (of); to be the outcome; to be the reason (for)
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
today; this day; these days; recently; nowadays
morning; breakfast; (arch.) next morning
city centre (center) (esp. capital city); urban centre; heart of city a metropolis
daytime; during the day; Japan and China
maximum temperature; highest temperature; (today's) high
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
degree (angle, temperature, scale, etc.); counter for occurrences; strength (of glasses); glasses prescription; alcohol content (percentage); alcohol by volume; extent
what; you-know-what; that thing; whatsit; whachamacallit; (not) at all; (not) in the slightest
indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
to do; to carry out; to cause to become; to make (into); to serve as; to act as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
yes; indeed; ha!; what?; huh?; sigh
so; therefore; accordingly; like I said; I told you already
image change; changing one's image; makeover
towards (a destination); for the purpose of; with the goal of; targeting (a group, a demographic)
honorific/polite/humble prefix
guest; visitor; customer; client; counter for containers used to entertain guests
new; novel; fresh; recent; latest; up-to-date
to take in; to bring in; to capture (e.g. image); to import; to win over; to please
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
promotion (e.g. sales, etc.); marketing campaign; campaign (election, membership, enrolment, fund-raising, etc.); drive; military campaign; military action
video (esp. digital); video clip; animation; animated cartoon; in-betweens (animation)
to take (a photo); to record (video, audio, etc.); to make (a film)
older brother; elder brother; brother (as older-brother figure in friendly and or work relationship); young man; buddy
hey; you; hey; hey; hold on; yo
after all; because; but; even; too; as well
clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.
sultry; sweltering; stuffy; uncomfortably hot-looking (clothing, etc.); stuffy-looking
isn't it?; don't you think?; right?; surely; come on
to say; to utter; to name; to call; to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise
that; that thing; that person; then; that time; that place (over there); down there (i.e. one's genitals)
it is ... that ...; precisely; although; while; it is precisely because ... that ...; only because ...