battle; war; fight (against time, poverty, etc.); struggle (for freedom, survival, etc.); contest; competition
outline; survey; compendium
to create; to bring forth; to invent; to think up and bring into being; to give birth to; to bear
merit; success; meritorious deed; achievement; accumulated experience
versus; against; to (e.g. score of 4 to 2, ratio of 3 to 1, vote of 320 to 180); toward ...; to ...; equal footing
breathing exercise; breath control; spirit cultivation; chi kung; qigong
art; technique; means; way; stratagem; artifice
departure; departing from ...; sent from ...; (a letter, etc.) dated ...; counter for engines (on an aircraft); counter for gunshots, bursts of gas, etc.
neck; head; dismissal (from a job); firing
being empty-handed; being penniless; having no capital (for starting a business)
to slaughter; to massacre; to butcher; to defeat soundly; to overpower; to vanquish
special move (e.g. in martial arts)
one person; being alone; being by oneself; being single; being unmarried; by oneself
beyond imagination; unimaginable
tempering (metal); annealing; forging; toughening; disciplining; training
end; extremity; limit; result; outcome; upshot
known as ...; also known as ...; called ...; AKA
purple lightning; flash; swordflash
middle; halfway; half (of); one half; half (e.g. done, jokingly); partly
to be turned inside out; to betray; to double-cross; to break into falsetto; to crack into falsetto
to ascertain; to confirm; to verify; to make sure of
a long, long time ago; very long ago
death; (an) out; death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation; most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)
to freeze; to become frozen; to freeze over
bottom; sole; depths (e.g. of despair, the sea); bottom (of one's heart); limit; end
to blow (of the wind); to blow (one's breath); to breathe out; to play (a wind instrument); to blow (a whistle, trumpet, etc.); to emit (smoke, fire, etc.); to spout
manner; way; appearance; air; custom; convention; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)
surely; undoubtedly; sternly; severely; having no slack; rigid
to live together; to be close friends; (lit.) to eat out of the same pot
pluralizing suffix; or so; rough indicator of direction, location, amount, etc.; nominalizing suffix
brother-in-law; stepbrother; sworn brother
sake cup; cup for alcoholic beverages; ritual exchange of cups (to seal a bond or pledge)
to exchange (messages, greetings, arguments, etc.); to intersect; to cross; ... with one another; ... to each other
today; this day; these days; recently; nowadays
to bare one's fangs; to snarl (at)
to be seized with fear; to be seized with panic
another place; somewhere else; outside (one's family or group); someone else; not caring for; being indifferent to
sword (esp. a large, double-edged one); blade; bayonet; swordsmanship; stinger; ovipositor
to take (trouble); to attend (to business); to command (army)
one (small animal); two-tan bolt of cloth
ogre; demon; spirit of a deceased person; ogre-like person (i.e. fierce, relentless, merciless, etc.); it (in a game of tag, hide-and-seek, etc.); seeker; Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)