rank (of troops); file; column; formation
quietly; slowly; gracefully
neighbour to the right (person, building, etc.)
quiet; still; surreptitious
period; time; opportunity; chance; age; term (e.g. in office); session (e.g. of parliament)
withdrawal; retraction; revocation; repeal
northern or southern lights; aurora borealis or australis
protection; safeguard; shugo (Kamakura or Muromachi period military governor)
beyond imagination; unimaginable
in an instant; in a flash; right away; immediately
annihilation; total destruction; complete destruction; crushing defeat
Vermilion Bird (god said to rule over the southern heavens); seven mansions (Chinese constellations) of the southern heavens
reallocating private land to public use (e.g. parks, roads); reduction in the amount of private land following a land reallocation; reducing the area of private land to reallocate it to public uses
albino fox; white (spiritual) fox
flag; banner (administrative division of Inner Mongolia)
ominous; sinister; unlucky; inauspicious
with a twitch (e.g. an eyebrow); with a dip; with a bob; with a flutter
to clasp together (esp. hands); to entwine (e.g. fingers)
to change into; to be transformed; to be transfigured; to transform; to alter; to convert
step; stair; grade; rank; counter for breaks in written language (or speech, etc.); dan
self and others; this and that; both sides; oneself and one's opponent; he and I
bits and pieces; frizzily (as in perm)
head; lead; vanguard; first
sword (esp. Japanese single-edged); katana; scalpel; chisel; burin; knife money (knife-shaped commodity money used in ancient China)
listen!; you see; mind you; remember
system; lineage; ancestry; group (e.g. of colors) (colours); family (e.g. of languages); close (evolutionary) relationship
operation (of machine); operating; running; working
irradiation; radiation; beaming; exposure (to light); illumination
plump; rotund; chubby; entirely; completely; wholly
to use up; to exhaust; to wear out