muscle; tendon; vein; artery; fiber; fibre; line
expresses incredulousness, disbelief, irony, etc.
1000 pounds; 1000 kan; 1000 yen; 1000 pieces of gold; great weight; pricelessness
futon; Japanese bedding consisting of a mattress and a duvet; round cushion used for Zen meditation (traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves)
to put to bed; to let sleep; to lay (something) down; to put on its side; to let (money, goods, etc.) lie idle; to set aside unused
messenger; envoy; emissary
to track down; to locate; to find out; to smoke out; to ferret out; to chase up
form (as opposed to substance); format; form; formality; form; mode
just this side of; one step short of; on the brink
fast asleep; dead to the world
nail; spike; tack; rivet; brad; (pachinko) pin
way (of doing); manner; method
sweet-smelling; fragrant; aromatic; good (reputation, condition, results, etc.); favorable
difficult to imagine; quite unlikely to; very doubtful; would not expect
crossing (a road, river, etc.); cutting through (e.g. of a river through a town); crossing (east-west); traversing; cutting horizontally; sectioning laterally
to scatter; to disseminate (e.g. a rumor); to spread (e.g. germs); to distribute widely (e.g. leaflets); to hand out freely; to spend recklessly
to conceal; to keep secret; to cover up
measure; square (e.g. of graph paper or Japanese manuscript paper); box (e.g. on a form)
to divide; to separate; to partition; to punctuate; to mark off (with a comma); to insert pauses (between words or phrases when reading aloud)
picture for coloring in (colouring)
one by one; one each; one at a time
to be fragrant; to smell (good); to stink; to smell (bad); to glow; to be bright
lingering scent; lingering fragrance; residual aroma
mechanism; machinery; trick; dodge; mechanical doll; string puppet
up in a tree; in the trees
branch; bough; limb; twig; sprig; spray
to jump from one thing to another
lightly; wide (open); gapingly; suddenly; unexpectedly
to open out (of a view, scenery, etc.); to spread out; to improve (of luck, prospects, etc.); to get better; to develop (of a town, civilization, etc.); to become civilized; to be sensible
seiza; kneeling with the tops of the feet flat on the floor, and sitting on the soles
meditation; contemplation
suffix for familiar person; indicates emphasis; (arch.) prostitute
return; reaction; recovery; return (from a procedure)
to starve; to be famished; to be hungry; to be starved of (e.g. love); to be thirsty for (e.g. knowledge); to be hungry for
to start a signal fire; to use a smoke signal; to initiate an action; to start a campaign
flashiness; showiness; bloom; flowers; Republic of China
wound; injury; chip; crack; flaw; defect
thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception
to paint; to spread; to plaster; to apply (cream, lotion); to smear; to lacquer
person who clears the way for a high-ranking person, procession, etc.; outrider; opening performer; sumo wrestler who leads a yokozuna at his ring-entering ceremony