to withdraw; to leave; to retire; to back down; to give up
order; command; life; destiny; fate
honorific/polite/humble prefix
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
one person; being alone; being by oneself; being single; being unmarried; by oneself
loyal retainer; loyal subject
ought to have been; was ... right?; to do for (inferiors)
partner country; other country (in a dispute, arrangement, etc.); opponent (country)
to pull apart; to separate; to have a lead over; to pull ahead of; to outdistance
leader; authority; mainstay
to injure; to damage; to kill; to hinder; to obstruct
if possible; if it is in my power; if it was realistic
to be foolish; to be stupid; to be ridiculous
one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start
the future (usually distant); future tense; the world to come
rather; better; instead; if anything
to blurt out; to let slip; to say inadvertently; to come out with (e.g. nonsense)
sympathy; empathy; response
tears (from being deeply moved); tears of gratitude
to be choked; to be stifled; to be smothered
to resound; to echo; to reverberate
to fall down (e.g. off a chair); to slip down (e.g. one's eyeglasses); to make a fool of oneself; to whoop it up; to be on the spree
body; group; party; gang; troupe; troop
single horseman; wait for one tile to finish one's pair and one's hand; wait for half of one's pair with four melds completed
leg strength; walking ability; running ability
to make (the best) use of; to put to good use; to let live; to keep alive; to revive; to resuscitate
on the way; en route; in the process of (development, construction, etc.); in the middle of
generally; in the main; (more or less) everything; all parts; ordinary; usual
route; course; path; one's future course (e.g. after graduating high school)
change; modification; alteration; revision; amendment
to draw; to paint; to depict; to describe; to picture in one's mind; to imagine
to approach; to draw near
to sew; to stitch; to weave one's way (e.g. through a crowd)
sweetly (smiling); broadly (grinning)
companion; follower; attendant; retinue
lightly and smoothly (of movements); swiftly; glidingly; (progressing) smoothly; (solving) easily
September; ninth month of the lunar calendar
upper stratum (classes, stories, storeys); upper layer; layer above