air; atmosphere; mood; situation; someone with no presence; someone who doesn't stand out at all
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
clearing one's throat; cough
to anyone; to everyone; by anyone; by everyone; in everyone; in anyone
adultery; immorality; impropriety; (an) affair
ramen restaurant; noodle restaurant
to give off (a smell, scent, aroma); to smell of; to perfume (a room, etc.); to hint at; to suggest; to insinuate
honorific/polite/humble prefix
ogre; demon; spirit of a deceased person; ogre-like person (i.e. fierce, relentless, merciless, etc.); it (in a game of tag, hide-and-seek, etc.); Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); very
cosplay (dressing in costume, esp. as a manga character, etc.)
origin; source; base; basis; cause; ingredient; material
supervision; control; superintendence; director; superintendent; supervisor
to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience
to bear; to carry on one's back; to take responsibility for; to accept a duty; to receive (wound); to incur (damage)
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it,...; I mean
to be photographed; to be projected
moreover; furthermore; nevertheless; and yet
recently; lately; these days; nearest; closest
sluggish; languid; listless; bothersome; tiresome; pain-in-the-ass
three-day weekend; long weekend; three holidays in a row
the vertical; height; front-to-back; length; north-to-south; vertical (relationship)
head; chief; leader; the greatest of all; the most excellent
idiot; moron; trivial matter; folly; stupid; foolish
reading vertically down horizontal text (e.g. as a simple code)
horizontal (as opposed to vertical); lying down; side-to-side (as opposed to front-to-back); width; side (of a box, etc.); beside
writing; composition; essay; sentence
to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed
meaning; significance; sense
what!; oh; what the heck; what the; damn
precisely; exactly; plumb; damn; stupid; cursed
to finish; to end; to merely result in something less severe than expected; to feel at ease; to feel unease or guilt for troubling someone; to be sorry
to part (usu. of people); to part from; to separate (of a couple); to break up; to lose (e.g. one's mother); to be bereaved
to permit; to allow; to forgive; to pardon; to exempt (someone) from; to remit; to acknowledge
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)
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
light seasoning; mild flavour; bland taste
very thin; flimsy; cheap; shallow
boy; bellboy; porter; waiter
second marriage; remarriage
soon; shortly; before long; nearly; almost
to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to