cartilage; nankotsu; (dish of) gristle (usu. of chicken, deep-fried)
no good; not serving its purpose; hopeless; wasted; cannot; must not
most; highest; maximum; best; wonderful; finest
seeming; giving the appearance of; giving one the feeling of
to turn; to revolve; to visit several places; to function well; to pass a certain time
indicates reason or excuse; indicates dissatisfaction; indicates desire to be pampered or indulged
safe; secure; certainly; surely; no thanks; I'm good
normal; ordinary; normally; ordinarily; local train; train that stops at every station
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...)
on a routine basis; regularly; habitually
to give one's name (as); to introduce oneself (as); to claim to be; to call oneself; to reveal oneself (as); to admit to being
funny; amusing; strange; odd; improper; unsuitable
to like; to be pleased with; to be delighted with; to take a liking to; to suit one's fancy
easy; likely to ...; have a tendency to ...; easy to ...
direction; way; side (of an argument, etc.); one's part; type; category; field (of study, etc.)
man; male; fellow; guy; male lover; boyfriend
to differ (from); to vary; to not be in the usual condition; to not match the correct (answer, etc.); to be different from promised; isn't it?
definitely; absolutely; absolute; unconditional; absoluteness
girl; daughter; baby girl; young woman
happy; glad; pleased; joyful; delightful; gratifying
nasty; mean; heartless; inconsiderate; selfish
reverse; opposite; converse (of a hypothesis, etc.); inverse (function)
to give; to let (one) have; to give; to do for one; to take the trouble to do; to do to someone's disadvantage
only; just; merely; as much as; to the extent of; enough to
mind; heart; spirit; the meaning of a phrase (riddle, etc.)
to open; to undo; to bloom; to unfold; to open (for business, e.g. in the morning); to be wide (gap, etc.); to widen
appeal (e.g. to public opinion); plea; appeal (e.g. sex appeal); attractiveness; appeal (e.g. in baseball); emphasizing (strong points, etc.)
everything; all; the whole; entirely; completely; wholly
representative; representation; delegation; switchboard number; main number
deep-fried food (esp. chicken)
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.)
coughing; hacking cough; thundering; drumming
often; frequently; lightly (of a movement); easily; simply
nonexistent; not being (there); not having; not
you; presence (of a god, nobleman, etc.)
past; after; too (much); over- (e.g. eating)
what kind of; what sort of; what; no matter what (kind of); whatever; any
land mine; topic that sets someone off; sensitive topic; something that seems fine at first but turns out to be very bad (e.g. product, business); booby trap
curtain; bunting; act (in play)
Horikita Maki (1988.10.6-)
junior high school student; middle school pupil
more or less; though not quite satisfactorily; tentatively; for the time being; just in case; once