Venus (planet); thick silk thread; refined sugar; white rice jelly; variety of sweet potato
middle section of a song (in gagaku or noh)
army; armed forces; military authorities; team; group
Konjin; God of (unlucky) directions
usual; normal; everyday; usually; normally; generally
going; travelling; act; action; bank; counter for banks; counter for groups or parties of people
purposely (of something needless, unexpected or seemingly counterproductive, etc.); daringly (doing something); not necessarily; not particularly; (arch.) definitely not
Saturday; earth; dirt; land; lands; earth (third of the five elements)
nature of the locality; character of a place; local colour; local color
reason; logic; sense; natural way of things
amplification; magnification; amplification; making larger
defense; defence; safeguard; protection
affinity; compatibility; chemistry (between people)
breaking through; breakthrough; surmounting (a difficulty); overcoming; exceeding; passing
rolling over; turning over; turning around (the other way); reversal (of direction, course, etc.); producing a positive from a negative; producing a negative from a positive
even ... (e.g. "even a genius")
just barely; only just; at the very limit; at the last moment
charm; talisman; tally; sign; mark; fu
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
period of time (usu. a period of approx. two hours corresponding to one of the signs of the Chinese zodiac); victory; strictness; cruelty
reason; principle; general principle (as opposed to individual concrete phenomenon); the underlying principles of the cosmos (in neo-Confucianism)
to melt; to liquefy; to dissolve (in a liquid); to bring into solution; to lose (money; through gambling, etc.); to squander
the five elements (in Chinese philosophy: wood, fire, earth, metal and water); the five phases; five practices of the Bodhisattvas; the five pillars of Islam
to catch; to stop the blow; to react to; to take (advice, etc.); to accept
unexpected; unforeseen; strange
to tear; to rip up; to cut up; to cleave; to forcibly separate (e.g. two lovers); (arch.) to have a tattoo in the corner of one's eye
versus; against; to (e.g. score of 4 to 2, ratio of 3 to 1, vote of 320 to 180); toward ...; to ...; equal footing
to give (time, money, goods); to donate; to do; to perform; to apply (processing, makeup, etc.); to add (e.g. ornamentation, annotation)
elegance; grace; article; item; counter for items (of food, etc.); counter for dishes or courses (at a restaurant)
serious wound; serious injury
to glare at; to scowl at; to stare intensely at; to examine carefully; to estimate; to guess
to tremble violently; to shudder up; to shake
to turn aside adroitly; to dodge
waiting; waiting time; wait tile; tile which would complete one's hand
to repeat someone's mistake; to make the same mistake as one's predecessor; (lit.) to follow the ruts (of a previous cart)
careless; thoughtless; stupid; heedless; unobservant; inadvertent
to sharpen; to grind; to whet; to hone; to make keen
making use of; application; practical use; operation (esp. of a boat); steering
calmness; composure; coolness; serenity; presence of mind
reason; circumstances; grounds; because of; due to; as a result of
the way (something) ought to be; (present) state (of); how things are
to permeate (of a stain, smell, etc.); to become ingrained; to become embedded; to become a deeply ingrained habit; to become second nature
minute; detailed; careful; scrupulous; thorough
to overlook; to fail to notice; to miss (seeing)
there is no need to ...; never happens; there is never a time when
to begin to run; to start running; to break into a run; to start moving (e.g. a vehicle); to take off; to get under way