cold water; cold sake; cold; cool
furnished with; including; attached to; impression; appearance; luck; sociality
volume (of book); reel (of film); scroll (of books or paintings); roll (paper, etc.)
this; this one; this person; now; this point (in time); here; used to stress the subject of a sentence
below; down; bottom; beneath; underneath; just after; right after
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
certain amount; some; certain person; Mr So-and-so; (arch.) I; (arch.) me
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
bill (e.g. at a restaurant); check
to work (for); to be employed (at); to serve (as); to act (as); to conduct a religious service
Mino (former province located in the south of present-day Gifu Prefecture)
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix
building; construction; group effort by Buddhist practitioners; group activities by a community (e.g. cleaning, etc.)
(your) business; (your) concern; (customer's) order; official business (of the government, Imperial Court, etc.); arrest; capture
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
former years; formerly; a few years ago
earth; ground; place; territory; bottom (of a package, book, etc.); earth (one of the five elements)
to arrive at (e.g. a decision); to reach (a stage); to lead to (a place); to get to; in the extreme case of; (arch.) to come
in front (of); before (e.g. a building); before; earlier; (the) front; frontal part; forward
one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start
two reams (of paper); 1000 sheets (of paper); stanza; verse; tribe (in taxonomy); forecast (bet); bet which predicts the top 2 finishers (i.e. quinella or perfecta bet)
faithful; devoted; true; honest; sincere
waiting on a table; serving (at dinner); waiter; waitress; office boy; office girl
to build up; to establish; to form; to become (a state); to accomplish; to achieve; to change into
and; besides; because; since; the thing is; for one thing
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
travellers' inn; stage inn
to sleep (lying down); to go to bed; to lie in bed; to lie down; to sleep (with someone, i.e. have intercourse); to lie flat (e.g. of hair); to lie idle (of funds, stock, etc.)
(approximate) time; around; suitable time (or condition); time of year; season
Satori; folklore monster that can read minds
certainly; of course; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how); without even; without so much as; at the (least, earliest, etc.)
nonexistent; not being (there); unowned; not had; unique; not; impossible
bedside; near one's pillow
next (e.g. "next April"); forthcoming; coming; to come; to arrive; to be due to
we; us; (arch.) I; (arch.) me; (arch.) you (referring to a group of one's equals or inferiors)
human being; human; person; character (of a person)
fault; error; going poorly; being disadvantageous; un-; non-
style; way; shape; form; appearance; state
nothing; naught; nought; un-; non-