to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
to notice; to recognize; to recognise; to become aware of; to perceive; to realize
university town; college town
story; tale; narrative; account; fable; legend
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
curtain; bunting; act (in play)
to open (a door, etc.); to unwrap (e.g. parcel, package); to open (for business, etc.); to empty; to remove; to move out; to clear out
sickle; leading question; trick question; sickle-and-chain (weapon); spear with curved cross-blades; gooseneck tenon and mortise joint; (arch.) noisiness
earth; ground; place; territory; bottom (of a package, book, etc.); earth (one of the five elements)
to fire (gun, arrow, questions, etc.); to shoot; to set free; to release; to emit (e.g. light); to give off (e.g. a scent)
very popular; highly favoured
educational institution; school; academy; campus
counter for parts, stages, installments, etc. (of a story, series, project, campaign, etc.); counter for bullets
entry (on stage); appearance (on screen); entrance; introduction (into a market)
human being; human; person; character (of a person)
to; for; in order to; for; as for; regarding
person; someone; human beings; mankind; human (Homo sapiens); (other) people; others
to distinguish; to recognize; to recognise; to tell apart; to differentiate
cell; cell (in an organization, esp. a communist party)
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen
that is so; that is right; it looks to me; people say that; it is said that; I hear that
here; this place; this point; here; these past ... (e.g. three years); these last ...
to raise; to raise up; to wake; to wake up; to cause; to bring about; to start
wall; partition; barrier; obstacle; Chinese "Wall" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
stain; spot; smudge; spot (on one's skin, e.g. chloasma, liver spot); blemish; discoloration
to be seen; to be in sight; to look; to seem; to come
called; named; as many as; as much as; all ...; every single ...
to get up; to rise; to wake up; to be awake; to occur (usu. of unfavourable incidents); to happen
in that way; thus; so; so?
author (usu. of a particular book); writer
recent photograph or photography
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix
reference; bibliographical reference; consultation; browsing (e.g. when selecting a file to upload on a computer); checking out
that; that thing; that person; then; that time; that place (over there); down there (i.e. one's genitals)
let me see; well; errr ...; uhh ...
illustration; picture; sketch; drawing; figure
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
birth; birthplace; born in (country, month, imperial era, zodiac year, etc.)