hello; good day; good afternoon
creator (of a work); author; writer; artist; composer; playwright
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
type; style; mold; mould; kata (set sequence of positions and movements in martial arts); style (in kabuki, noh, etc.); convention
the nth ...; divisions of a kabuki performance
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
end; verge; extremity; miss; failure; blank (e.g. lottery ticket)
hero; heroine; Eroica Symphony (Beethoven, 1804); Heroic Polonaise (Chopin)
at; in; to; toward; to; for; because of
to raise; to rear; to train; to teach; to promote the growth of; to nurture
unconventional; eccentric; offbeat; aberrant; outlandish; crazy
magic; witchcraft; sorcery; spell
swordsman; swordswoman; fencer
indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
to take in one's hand; to pick up; to obtain
to hold in one's arms (e.g. a baby); to embrace; to have sex with; to make love to; to sit on (eggs); to brood
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
work (e.g. book, film, painting, composition); piece; production; opus
god; deity; god-tier; incredible; (arch.) Emperor (of Japan); (arch.) thunder
popularization; simplification; explaining in simple language; adaptation of history for popular reading (esp. Chinese); historical novel writing
called; named; as many as; as much as; all ...; every single ...
novel; story; (work of) fiction
if; when; and; as well as; with; together with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.)
laws of nature; physical laws; physics
Mr; Mrs; Miss; politeness marker
at; in; at; when; by; with; so
peerless; unparalleled; unparallelled; mowing down the enemy
sexy; popular; well-liked
to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed
to do; to carry out; to cause to become; to make (into); to serve as; to act as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
look; glimpse; apparently; seemingly; (arch.) first meeting
hard to understand; incomprehensible; unintelligible
the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...
indicates the subject of a sentence; indicates possession; but; however; and; used after an introductory remark or explanation; regardless of ...
indicates a question; indicates an embedded question; indicates an indirect question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm
jump; jumping event (skiing, track and field); jumping (to another page after clicking a hyperlink); jump (in price); sudden rise
caricaturing; turning a movie, novel, etc. into a manga; making a comic version of something
thing; object; one's things; possessions; things; something; quality
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
ah!; oh!; yes; indeed; aah; gah