captive; prisoner; victim (of love, etc.); slave (to one's lust, etc.)
feather; plume; wing; blade (of a fan, propeller, etc.); shuttlecock (in badminton); shuttlecock (in hanetsuki); arrow feathers
unusual power; superpower; ability beyond that of humans
application; request; petition
to screw; to twist; to distort; to parody; to torture; to wrest
hard to understand; incomprehensible; unintelligible
to worry about the future
period; time; opportunity; chance; age; term (e.g. in office); session (e.g. of parliament)
corpse; kanji "corpse" radical
to take hold of; to possess; to haunt
introduction; bringing in; leading in; installation
outline; summary; argument
to rule; to govern; (arch.) to see; (arch.) to look; (arch.) to watch
frank; direct; plain; straightforward; point-blank; concise
in deep black; in jet black
to be buried; to be covered; to overflow; to be crowded; to be repaid (e.g. debt); to be replenished
difficult to understand; unintelligible; abstruse
to express in a roundabout way
tedious talk; impertinent talk; repetitious talk; saucy speech; pretentious statement
carefully; attentively; profoundly; deeply; at length
(arch.) office; (arch.) official; chief; head; (Yaeyama Islands in Okinawa) person (usually a woman) whose duty it is to officiate at religions ceremonies
fashion; way; school (of thought); class; rank; current (electrical, water, etc.)
way of writing; manner of writing; penmanship (esp. used in old textbooks); calligraphy; format (e.g. of a report); stroke order of a character
service business (hotel, restaurant, entertainment); service industry
preference; priority; precedence
separate volume; extra issue; supplement; additional volume; supplementary volume
stinking; smelly; suspicious; fishy; clumsy; unskilled
extinction; extermination; eradication; stamping out; wiping out
important point (e.g. on a route); important role (responsibility, etc.); opposition
katakana; angular Japanese syllabary used primarily for loanwords
ruby; ruby character; small hiragana or katakana readings of kanji usually above or to the side of the kanji (esp. used by printers and in ref. to printed material)
to one's heart's content; as much as one wants; as hard as one can; resolution; decisiveness; determination
original character (as opposed to one from an existing work)
black magic; sorcery; magic tricks; juggling
sex slave; sexual slavery