standing signboard; billboard; hoarding
form of a character (e.g. simplified, traditional); type; typeface; font
to have heard somewhere; to sound familiar
hakama; man's formal divided skirt
dojo; hall used for martial arts training; manda (place of Buddhist practice or meditation, esp. the place under the bodhi tree where Buddha attained enlightenment)
heavy outfit designed to keep out the cold
yikes!; eek!; ook; eek; customer
curious onlookers; rubbernecks
four arithmetic operations; basic arithmetic operations
tree sparrow (Passer montanus); talkative person; knowledgeable person
awfully; frightfully; desperately; violently; unduly; extremely
perplexity; difficult question; difficult problem
to get tired of; to lose interest in; to be fed up with; to have enough
circle; "correct"; "good"; *; _; period
gobang (game played on go board involving lining up stones); gomoku; Five in a Row
insane; crazy; nuts; out of one's mind
malicious; ill-tempered; unkind
pedestrian crossing; crosswalk
Shimizu Kunio (1936.11.17-)
jack; knave; (electrical) jack; hijack; hijacking
what little ... one has; tiny amount of; paltry
to dance (orig. a whirling dance); to flutter about; to revolve
stealing a march on; getting a head start; secretly acting before others; solo raid on an enemy's camp (for glory)
railway crossing; railroad crossing; starting line; scratch; determination; stepping over the edge of the ring
soft; tender; gentle; mild; informal; light
women's college; women's university
one's family (home) background (environment)
origin; source; base; basis; cause; ingredient; material
economics department; economics school