Dragon King; promoted rook
defenseless; defenceless; unprotected; vulnerable
back; reverse; rear side; height; stature; ridge (of a mountain)
to go mad; to go crazy; to lose one's mind
to say enough (as much as required); to say plenty; to say well; to say cleverly; to say often; to say frequently
quality; value; nature; inherent quality; logical quality
dealing with; coping with
four (long cylindrical things)
two (long cylindrical things)
defense; defence; safeguard; protection
virtually empty; quite empty; inadequately defended; defenseless; defenceless
trunk; torso; plastron (in kendo); touching the plastron (kimari-te in kendo); frame (of a drum, etc.); sound box (of a shamisen, etc.)
to punch; to hit and hit; to stamp out; to pierce; to bore into; to knock down walls
individual; private person; personal; private
to be oversized (overloud, etc.)
to advance on; to close in; to march on; to descend on (the enemy); to move towards; to surge forward (crowd, wave of nostalgia, wave, etc.)
sluice gate; water gate; flood gate
to underrate; to belittle; to look down on; to despise
to stray from the right path; to go wrong; to go off the rails; to turn delinquent
to collect; to assemble; to gather
power; might; authority; influence
sharp increase; sudden rise
many a little makes a mickle; every little helps; (lit.) even dust becomes a mountain if piled together
exactly; surely; right then; just then; just (about to); on the verge (of doing or happening)
incarnation; embodiment; realization; giving concrete form (to)
circle; "correct"; "good"; *; _; period
to make an enemy (of); to antagonize
just as; in the act of; as soon as; at the moment that
smirkingly; broadly (grinning)
after all; in the end; anyway; (cannot) possibly; (not) at all; (not) by any means
tag (children's game); tig
sometime; someday; one day; some time or other; the other day; in due course
sympathy; agreement with; alignment; conformity; tuning
key; lock; key (to a problem); clue
to check; to hold back; to keep at bay; to stop; to prevent; to stem
forward; frontward; ahead; rectangular front
attack on both sides; pincer movement; double envelopment
to knit; to plait; to braid; to compile (anthology, dictionary, etc.); to edit
borderline between life and death; verge of death; deadline (boundary around a prison which prisoners were not allowed to cross)
to slip through; to slip past; to evade