unity; consolidation; uniformity; unification; compatible
one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
June; sixth month of the lunar calendar
twenty-ninth day of the month; twenty-nine days
iron (Fe); strong and hard (as iron); railway; railway enthusiast
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
road; path; route; way; distance; journey; road (e.g. to victory)
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
to write; to compose; to pen; to draw; to paint
railroad; railway; rail transport
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
king; ruler; tycoon; magnate; king (of the senior player)
highway (esp. one existing from the Edo period); main road; highway (e.g. to success); path (to becoming ...); subdistrict (in China)
et cetera; etc.; or something; the likes of; for example; for instance
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
present age; present day; today; modern era; modern times
to; for; from the standpoint of; as far as ... is concerned
aorta; (fig.) important traffic route
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
dot; spot; mark (in an exam, etc.); grade; point (in a game); score; point (in geometry)
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.
face; mask; face guard; (in kendo) striking the head; surface (esp. a geometrical surface); page; aspect
to make; to make (something) what it should be; to cause to be
town; city; municipal; urban
in the end; on top of that
motherland; fatherland; native country
(weather) front; front line; forward area; action zone
country; territory; domain; realm
important point; strategic position; key point
people (of a country); nation; citizen; national
goods; materials; commodities; resources; supplies
to come and go; to go back and forth
to tie; to fasten; to wear (necktie, belt); to put on; to total; to sum; to be strict with
and; and then; thus; and now; and finally
above anything else; above all; more than anything; best; greatest; excellent
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