owner; proprietor; possessor (e.g. of talent, beauty, etc.)
depending on; as soon as; immediately after; as (e.g. "as one is told", "as one wishes"); whatever (e.g. "whatever is at hand"); order; program
to ask again; to repeat one's question; to ask back; to ask in return; to counter
way to die; means of dying; quality of one's death
buying; shopping; buyer; purchase
to borrow; to have a loan; to rent; to hire
surface; face; outside; exterior; appearances; superficiality
to cross (legs or arms); to link (arms); to put together; to construct; to braid; to plait; to grapple
to jump; to leap; to break up; to close; to hit (e.g. to have a car hit something or someone)
red; crimson; Red; communist; (arch.) beautiful
to begin to open; to come out; to smile broadly; to come apart at the seams (clothes)
to go against; to oppose; to disobey; to defy
of all people; a person of ...'s standing
to be superfluous; to be in excess; to be more than enough
just one person; only one
counter for people (usu. seating, reservations and such); first name; famous; great; name; noun
to lend; to loan; to rent out; to hire out
long, narrow strip of paper on which Japanese poems are written (vertically); tanzaku; thin rectangle
aum (ritual chant in Hinduism, etc.); om
condensed milk; Soviet Union
old woman; joker (card); hag; bitch
sprouts from a stump; buds from the base of a tree
corner; nook; shade; shadow; dark circles (under the eyes); dark rings
koku; traditional unit of volume, approx. 180.4 litres; measure of a Japanese-style boat's loading capacity (approx. 278.26 liters)
Brahman; Brahma; Brahma; Hindu creator god; Sanskrit
tying up; restraint; restriction; arrest
lightweight fabric or clothing; silk gauze; thin silk; Latin (language)
to get slightly dirty (all over)
decipherment; interpretation; making out; identification
pronunciation; reading (e.g. of a kanji); way of reading (out loud); interpretation (e.g. of a text); reading
tediously; repetitively; insistently; ad nauseam; at great length
so-so; passable; now, now; my, my
argument; discussion; theory (e.g. of evolution); doctrine; essay; treatise
anyhow; anyway; somehow or other; apart from ...; setting ... aside
mantra; Shingon sect (of Buddhism)
to declare; to assert; to state definitively; to finish saying; to say it all; to finish one's sentence
to hold up over one's head; to hold aloft; to hold over something; to hold (one's hands) out (e.g. towards a fire); to hold up to shade one's eyes, face, etc.
to put up (a notice, sign, etc.); to hang out (e.g. a banner); to hold up high; to raise overhead; to tout (a principle, plan, etc.); to herald; to publish