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favorite; favourite; habitually used

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bracer (arm guard used in archery); gauntlet (armour); glove (in kendo or fencing); strike to the forearm (in kendo)

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cane; walking stick; staff; wand

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in great numbers

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underground; below the ground; world of the dead; the grave; underground (activities, movement, etc.); secret

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torch (made of pine, bamboo, reed, etc.); flambeau; torchlight

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bright (esp. of the moon); broad and empty

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to resound; to echo; to reverberate

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noon; lunch time

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to cross one's mind; to occur to one; to flash into one's head

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daytime; during the day; time from sunrise until sunset; diurnal period

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to play with (a toy, one's hair, etc.); to fiddle with; to toy with (another's emotions, etc.); to trifle with; to do with something as one pleases; to appreciate

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not a moment to waste; there is no time to lose; cannot wait any longer

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joy; pleasure; delight

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to ask a question; to begin to ask a question

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to tie; to bind; to fasten; to restrict (freedom); to tie down (with rules, regulations, etc.); to fetter

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(mouth) gag

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candle

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to shine on; to illuminate; to compare (with); to refer to

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bright red; bright

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paint; coating; varnish

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dreary; bleak; monotonous; tasteless; unrefined

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to be conspicuous; to stand out

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to get wet

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my goodness!; oh my!; oh dear!

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to press a question; to cross-examine

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madness; insanity

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you; dear; honey

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to yearn for; to long for; to follow (someone); to idolize (for virtue, learning, status, etc.)

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to be angry; to resent; to be enraged; to be indignant

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to fall behind; to lag behind; to be outdistanced; to be beaten

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rage; fury; exasperation; indignation

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to be affected; to be theatrical; to be pompous

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to shrug one's shoulders

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to take (preventive) measures; to come to an agreement (in bargaining, etc.); to strike a bargain; to clap one's hands together

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to get late; to advance; to wear on

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to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest)

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to entrust (someone) with; to pin one's hopes on (someone's future); to have great expectations for; to have (someone) deliver (a letter, etc.); to leave (a message); to send word

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spirit world; underworld; other world; supernatural world; different dimension

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to point; to nominate; to select someone; to identify; to indicate; to play (a game of shogi)

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to call (someone) to (the door, phone, etc.); to tell (someone) to come; to call up (on the phone); to invoke (e.g. a subroutine); to call; to open (e.g. a file)

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question; inquiry; enquiry

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skewering; skewered food; piercing (and killing; with a spear, etc.); impaling; running through

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world tree (religious or mythological motif)

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this world; this life; world of the living

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to create; to bring forth; to invent; to think up and bring into being; to give birth to; to bear

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reason; principle; general principle (as opposed to individual concrete phenomenon); the underlying principles of the cosmos (in neo-Confucianism)

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purification; cleanup (e.g. of politics); purge

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all things being in flux through the endless circle of birth, death, and rebirth; the circle of transmigration

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thousand years; millennium; (fig.) long time

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