acknowledgement; acknowledgment; understanding (e.g. "please be understanding of the mess during our renovation"); noting
change; modification; alteration; revision; amendment
deletion; elimination; erasure; striking out
contacting; getting in touch; communication; call; message
site (usu. website); sight; payable on sight
link; directory entry; rink
terminal; computer terminal; information access device (smartphone, tablet, book-reader, etc.); end (e.g. of a roll of film)
double circle (indicating "very good" on a piece of school work)
(our) company; (my) company; small company; small shrine
February; second month of the lunar calendar
maximum; max; mux (multiplexor)
to wait for one's punishment; to wait before one gets what's coming to one; (lit.) to wash one's neck and wait (i.e. for one's beheading)
literature; the arts; art and literature; liberal arts
storytelling (of war chronicles, revenge tales, etc.) with highly dramatic delivery; story
bamboo (any grass of subfamily Bambusoideae); middle (of a three-tier ranking system)
to pen; to write; to draw
commemoration; celebration; honoring the memory of something; turning something into a memento; memory
whole year; entire year; n-th year anniversary
work; business; company; study
creator (of a work); author; writer; artist; composer; playwright
passage (of time); elapsing; progress; development; transit
to become familiar with and cherish; to get to know and love
though; although; be that as it may; nonetheless
portrait orientation; vertical orientation
turning sideways; landscape orientation
minute (unit of time); fun (one tenth of a monme, 5.787 grains)
twelve o'clock; midnight; noon
end; close; finish; noh dance in plain clothes
middle of summer; height of summer; midsummer
end; close; conclusion; termination
glacial period; glacial epoch; glacial era; tough period; drought (of opportunities, jobs, etc.)