short pause; short interval
cold; chilly; cold (attitude, stare, etc.); frigid; composed; cool
call; visit; inquiry; enquiry; question
form; shape; state; condition; letter; correspondence
rock (in rock-paper-scissors); stone; ungh; gulp; rumbling (of an empty stomach); growling
plane; sharpen; whittle; pare; shave (leather); scrape off
edge (of a knife or sword); prong (of an electrical plug)
crossing; passage; importing; import; wandering; wanderer; migration
centimeter; centimetre; centi-; 10^-2; sentimental
sword (esp. Japanese single-edged); katana; scalpel; chisel; burin; knife money (knife-shaped commodity money used in ancient China)
katsuobushi; small pieces of sliced dried bonito
shhh! (sound used when getting someone to shut up); shoo! (sound used to drive animals away)
sound of something striking repeatedly (e.g. wooden clappers); something small hopping repeatedly; touching lightly and repeatedly; punctuation marks such as the dakuten; Chonchon; South American mythical bird
art; technique; means; way; trick; trap
above anything else; above all; more than anything; best; greatest; excellent
very; greatly; much; just about to; almost; very nearly
justice; right; righteousness; correct meaning; correct explanation
law (esp. ancient East Asian criminal code); regulation; vinaya (rules for the monastic community); Ritsu (school of Buddhism); lüshi (style of Chinese poem); (musical) pitch; six odd-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale
ceremony; matter; affair; with regard to; as for
to resign; to abandon; to step aside; to back out of; to retire; to get away
to line up; to set up; to enumerate; to itemize; to be equal (to); to compare well (with)
to jump in; to leap in; to plunge into; to burst in; to barge in
to seem to be ...; to become like ...; to behave as ...
hot; warm; passionate; impassioned; on everybody's mind; on the radar
loss; damage; harm; disadvantage; handicap; drawback
ups and downs; up-and-down
chattering; chit-chat; (ladies) prattle
precious; valuable; priceless; noble; exalted; sacred
lily (Lilium spp.); yuri; genre of comics and novels about female homosexuality
appeal (e.g. to public opinion); plea; appeal (e.g. sex appeal); attractiveness; appeal (e.g. in baseball); emphasizing (strong points, etc.)
messy; confused; chaotic; complaining about various things
public performance; exhibition in a foreign country
script; libretto; scenario
evaluation meeting; postmortem session; review meeting
timewasting; killing time
going in and out; entering and exiting; visiting regularly; frequenting; income and expenditure; incomings and outgoings; increase and decrease
(arch.) sitting outdoors; room that served both as a reception room and as a living room in a Heian-period mansion; temporary sitting place installed in the garden at the imperial court, used on the occasion of archery or sumo ceremonies
trying to think of a way (to); devising means (to); working out (how to do); contriving (to raise money); managing
weather; the elements; fair weather; fine weather