effeminate; unmanly; cowardly; sissy
princess; spoiled girl; hothouse flower; glue
eleventh day of the month; eleven days
this is why; this means; it is the case that
sorting; arrangement; liquidation; settlement; retrenchment; curtailment
having said that; on the other hand
to sever; to cut off; to suppress; to eradicate; to abstain (from); to give up
substance; essence; real (in economics, vs. nominal, e.g. real interest rate); substantive; substantial
to dam up; to hold back; to keep back; to stem (an activity); to check (e.g. progress)
face; honour; meld; lineup (of players participating in a mahjong game); attendees (e.g. at a meeting); members
to worry about (someone's welfare or comfort); to feel anxious about; to have apprehensions of
older sister; elder sister; young lady; miss; ma'am; older girl
dainty; delicate; slender; fragile (e.g. furniture); delicate; frail
guest of honor; guest of honour; good customer; important customer
to be vague; to speak ambiguously; to be evasive; to not commit oneself
to stand, walk, etc. shoulder-to-shoulder; to be on a par with
alternation; change; relief; relay; shift; substitution (sports, etc.)
lottery; raffle; drawing (of lots)
(school) class change; class shuffle; rearrangement of which students are in which teacher's class
too terrible to look at; unbearable to look at
exactly; surely; right then; just then; just (about to); on the verge (of doing or happening)
dwelling; house; residence; address
being sensitive to the cold; person who is sensitive to the cold
race game (board game where the object is to reach the goal first); trad. Japanese board games played with dice, esp. ban-sugoroku
generous; magnanimous; big-hearted; broad-minded; (lit.) big-bellied
sign (of things to come); good omen; good sign
flabbily; softly; limply; easily (bend); effortlessly; flexibly
mass; mass (media, production, etc.); masturbation
10,000; ten thousand; myriad; everything; all; (arch.) various
unit; denomination; credit (in school); in units of (e.g. "in thousands"); in amounts of
to be pulled in (fish); to be landed
to open one's eyes wide (in anger, surprise, etc.); to goggle at
paralysis; palsy; numbness; stupor
Niigata (city, prefecture)
goal; target; aim; mark; sign; landmark
first place; first rank; unit's position; Japanese yew (Taxus cuspidata)