year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
July; seventh month of the lunar calendar
22nd day of the month; 22 days
continent; continental Asia (esp. mainland China); continental Europe
royal capital; imperial capital
suburb; residential area on the outskirt of a city; commuter belt
floating; drifting; suspension; (arch.) wandering (about)
Island; insula; island; islet
wonderful; marvelous; strange; strangely enough; oddly enough; for some reason
approximately; about; to (about) the extent that; (almost) enough that; as ... as ...; like
wind; breeze; manner; behaviour; cold; influenza
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
nonexistent; not being (there); unowned; not had; unique; not; impossible
day; days; sun; sunshine; (the) day; daytime; date
at; in; to; toward; to; for; because of
to glitter; to sparkle; to twinkle; to glisten; to gleam; to glint
innumerable; countless; numberless
stars; the stars and planets; celestial bodies
indicates the subject of a sentence; indicates possession; but; however; and; used after an introductory remark or explanation; regardless of ...
to grow thickly; to be overgrown; to thrive; to grow in abundance
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
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.
pale; pallid; bluish-white
to colour; to color; to apply make-up; to decorate; to garnish
to touch; to feel; to touch (with); to experience; to come in contact with; to touch on (a subject); to allude to
indicates a question; indicates an embedded question; indicates an indirect question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm
to understand; to comprehend; to become clear; to be known; I know!; I think so too!
extent; degree; limit; bounds; (span of) time; (a) distance; the state of
air; atmosphere; mood; situation; someone with no presence; someone who doesn't stand out at all
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
lukewarm; tepid; disagreeably warm (e.g. bath)
there (place relatively near listener); there (place just mentioned); that place; then (of some incident just spoken of); that (of point just raised); (arch.) you
displeasure; discomfort; unpleasantness; indisposition; ailment
thing; object; one's things; possessions; things; something; quality
ordinary; common; free of charge; free; unaffected; as is
one; for one thing; only; (not) even; just (e.g. "just try it"); some kind of; one type of
(in the) neighbourhood; neighborhood; around; about; for instance; say
to drift; to float; to waft (e.g. a scent); to hang in the air; to be in the air (e.g. a feeling or mood); to wander; to walk around aimlessly
blood; blood; ancestry; (the) blood; feelings
smell; scent; aura; whiff; faint, mist-like pattern along the temper line of a Japanese sword
to remove; to get rid of; to exclude; to except; to kill (a traitor, opponent, etc.)