chattering; talk; idle talk; chatty; talkative; chatterbox
proposal; proposition; suggestion
killing time; keeping oneself occupied; time killer; wasting time; waste of time
group; crowd; flock; herd; bevy; school
to chase; to run after; to pursue; subsequently; following that; (and) then
it does not mean that ...; I don't mean that ...; it is not the case that ...
anchorage; anchoring; mooring
catch (fishing); amount of fish caught; caught fish
to line up; to stand in a line; to rival; to match; to equal
to dribble; to spill; to suspend; to hang down; to slouch
to land (a fish); to catch; to reel in
hit; success; guess; prediction; affability; friendliness; sensation
counter for small animals; counter for rolls of cloth (two han in size); (arch.) counter for horses; roll of cloth
heaven and earth; top and bottom
both (hands, parents, sides, etc.); counter for carriages (e.g. in a train); counter for vehicles; ryō; tael; ryō; pre-Meiji unit of currency, orig. the value of one ryō of gold
greater than ...; bigger ...
substantiality (of a meal); fillingness; solidity
to fish; to angle; to catch; to lure in; to tempt; to attract
knack; skill; bone; skeleton; cremated remains (esp. the bones); ashes
to lend; to loan; to rent out; to hire out; to hand (over); to give
rod; pole; neck (of a shamisen, etc.); shamisen; beam (i.e. the crossbar of a balance); single line (esp. as a flying formation for geese); penis
submitting to (a demand, one's fate, etc.); putting up with; resigning oneself to; accepting (without complaint)
to pull (the puppet) strings; to direct things from behind the scenes; to stretch out (and keep going); to linger on
to pull; to draw; to string (lines); to run (cable); to pull towards oneself (e.g. someone's sleeve); to drag; to haul
to break; to snap; to be injured; to wear out; to be worn out; to break; to burst
to swim; to struggle through (a crowd); to make one's way through the world; to get along (in life); to totter; to lose one's balance
pull; patronage; tug; room to move the camera back; drawing back; pulling back
to bend; to warp; to yield; to be supple (e.g. bamboo, body); to be flexible; to be pliant
using all one's strength; using all one's might
to become loose; to slacken (e.g. rope); to become less tense; to relax; to slacken (e.g. coldness, supervision); to become lax; to become softer (e.g. ground, facial expression)
-smell; stinking of; smacking of; hinting of
to blow off (strongly); to blow away; to drive away (e.g. one's worries); to dispel; to do at great speed (e.g. drive a car); to carry out (a task) very quickly
prey; catch; kill; spoils; trophy; loot
fishing; gathering seafood (e.g. clams, seaweed); catch (e.g. of fish); haul
bargaining; haggling; tactics; strategy; (tactical) advance or retreat of troops
play; playing; pleasure; amusement; play (in a mechanism, e.g. a steering wheel); slack
hum; hmm; hm hm (light chuckle with mouth closed); uh-huh; mm; hmm
huff!; yo-heave-ho!; yoisho! (word shouted by the spectators during a yokozuna's ritual stomps); yoisho (filler word in folk music, etc.); flattery; buttering up (someone)
to bear; to stand; to support; to withstand; to be fit for; to be equal to