electric shock; blitz; lightning attack; sudden and without warning; shocking
double circle (indicating "very good" on a piece of school work)
Amur silvergrass (Miscanthus sacchariflorus)
hollow; cavity; sunken place; (arch.) vagina; (arch.) female genitalia
character; personality; (fictional) character; letter; character
computer graphics; CG; computer-generated imagery; CGI
mechanism; mechanics; machines; mechanic
public good; public profit
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
December; twelfth month of the lunar calendar
one day; all day (long); throughout the day; first day of the month
Chinese "star" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); Singapore
region; limits; stage; level
prefix for forming ordinal numbers
(natural) satellite; moon; (artificial) satellite
belonging to (a group, organization, etc.); affiliation (with); being attached to; being under the control of
jūbako; multi-tiered food box; heavy; serious; extreme; -fold
clothing; dressing; binding (of a book)
conquistador; conquistadores
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
to do; to carry out; to cause to become; to make (into); to serve as; to act as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
extent; degree; limit; bounds; (span of) time; (a) distance; the state of
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
in front (of); before (e.g. a building); before; earlier; (the) front; frontal part; forward
to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed