(national) capital (city); metropolis
bright and beautiful; gorgeous; showy; prosperous; flourishing; thriving
to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed
center; centre; metropolis
land near a castle; castle town
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
the four cardinal directions; north, east, south and west; surroundings; many countries; the whole world; all around; here and there
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.
wall; partition; barrier; obstacle; Chinese "Wall" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); wall (of stones)
at; in; at; when; by; with; so
to surround; to encircle; to besiege; to lay siege to; to play (go, shogi, etc.)
firm; strong; solid; stable
(fixing) boundaries for religious practices; prohibition (of items, people, spirits, etc. that would hinder Buddhist practice); fence between inner and outer sanctums in a temple; (arch.) short two or three-fold lattice around the front desk of a store; barrier; dimensional barrier
territory; domain; field; area; domain; region
here; this place; this point; here; these past ... (e.g. three years); these last ...
Qing dynasty (of China; 1644-1912); Ch'ing dynasty; Manchu dynasty
kimono; Japanese traditional clothing (esp. full-length); clothing; clothes
if; when; and; as well as; with; together with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.)
abhorrent; abominable; detestable; ominous; inauspicious; unlucky
thing; object; one's things; possessions; things; something; quality
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
to meet; to assemble; to congregate
place; location; room; space; sumo tournament
open seam; seam that has come apart; tear
to come out; to fall out; to fade; to discolour; to wear a hole (e.g. clothes); to leave (e.g. a meeting); to be clear
insect; bug; worm; roundworm; thing inside one's body believed to influence one's thoughts and feelings; (one's) unconscious; nervousness
people; men and women; each person; everybody
blood relative; close relation; (one's) flesh and blood; flesh and blood; the body
to eat; to drink; to receive (e.g. a blow); to be on the receiving end (of something undesirable); to undergo (trouble)
rampancy; prevalence; domination
spirit world; underworld; other world; supernatural world; different dimension
from; since; through (e.g. a window, door); via; because; as; from (as in "made from")
foreign enemy; outside invader
extermination (of pests); eradication; stamping out (e.g. a social evil)
Vermilion Bird (god said to rule over the southern heavens); seven mansions (Chinese constellations) of the southern heavens
-itis (indicating an inflammatory disease)
world-destroying conflagration
invitation; bringing over; bringing about; giving rise to; causing
to spring at; to leap upon; to swoop down on; to throw oneself upon (e.g. an enemy)
to try to ...; to be about to do ...; to decide to ...; to take as; to treat as; to use for; to suppose that (such) is the case
type; style; mold; mould; kata (set sequence of positions and movements in martial arts); style (in kabuki, noh, etc.); convention