to say; to utter; to name; to call; to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise
extent; degree; limit; bounds; (span of) time; (a) distance; the state of
nonexistent; not being (there); unowned; not had; unique; not; impossible
but; however; (and) yet; nevertheless; still; for all that
topic; subject; much talked about; topical; in the news
to be troubled; to have difficulty; to be bothered; to be inconvenienced; to be badly off; to be hard up
time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity
to touch; to feel; to touch (with); to experience; to come in contact with; to touch on (a subject); to allude to
fellow; guy; thing; object; he; she
shiritori; word-chain game; word game in which players must give a word starting with the last syllable of the word given by the previous player
indicates a question; indicates an embedded question; indicates an indirect question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm
as everyone knows; needless to say; obvious
young (e.g. young children); of few years
intended for ...; oriented towards ...; aimed at ...
word game; wordplay; playing with words
senior high school student
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
play; playing; pleasure; amusement; play (in a mechanism, e.g. a steering wheel); slack
comprehension; consent; understanding; OK; roger
dolphin (or other small toothed whales, incl. porpoises, belugas, etc.)
kinpira gobō; braised burdock root; chopped burdock root (and sometimes carrot) cooked in sugar and soy sauce
preaching to the deaf; (lit.) chanting the nembutsu into a horse's ear
tightrope walking; high-wire act; funambulism; treading a tightrope; walking on thin ice; pulling a risky balancing act
unreasonable; unnatural; impossible; forcible; forced; excessive (work, etc.); immoderate
binding; regulation; limit; binding period (e.g. phone or broadband contract); minimum contract term
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
kiwifruit; kiwi fruit; kiwi; kiwi (bird)
best is Fuji, second is a hawk, third is an eggplant (of auspicious things to see in a dream, esp. one's first dream of the year)
just (e.g. "just wait here"); come now; tolerably; passably; well ...; I think ...
kinako; roasted soybean flour; roasted soy flour
nothing ventured, nothing gained; (lit.) you will not get the tiger cub without entering the tiger's den
Kōzuke (former province located in present-day Gunma Prefecture)
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix
ordinary; common; free of charge; free; unaffected; as is
town; block; street; road; chō (unit of length, approx. 109.09 m); chō (unit of land area, approx. 0.99 hectares)
to have a narrow escape from death
answering machine; answerphone
youth; child (esp. of the young son of someone of high social standing); young; new
cherry tree; cherry blossom; light pink; fake buyer; paid audience; hired applauder
railroad; railway; rail transport