to lick; to lap; to taste; to experience (esp. a hardship); to look down on (someone); to make fun of
snake; serpent; large snake
association (of ideas); being reminded (of something); suggestion
approximately; about; promise; appointment; shortening; reduction
one person; another name; nickname; alias
I wonder; do you think?; I might; some kind; some stage; somehow
way one walks; one's walk
strange; weird; wonder; mystery; cleverness; adroitness
vivid (memory, description, etc.); fresh; graphic; fresh (blood, scar, etc.); still new; recent
reality; actuality; practice (as opposed to theory); truly; really; bhutakoti (limit of reality)
garden; yard; courtyard; field (of action); area
to clear up; to clear away; to refresh (e.g. spirits); to be cleared (e.g. of a suspicion); to be dispelled; to be banished
to stagnate; to settle (at the bottom); to deposit; to become sluggish; to become dull; to be delayed
to become muddy; to become cloudy; to become dull (of a sound, color, etc.); to become hoarse; to become impure (of a heart, society, etc.); to be corrupted
to call out to; to hail; to address; to appeal
container; receptacle; case; inserting; putting in
to resign; to abandon; to step aside; to back out of; to retire; to get away
to urge; to encourage; to press; to stimulate (e.g. growth); to hasten (e.g. development); to quicken
entering; setting (of the Sun); containing; content; income; beginning
haori (Japanese formal coat)
man; male; masculine gender
drawing room; parlor; parlour; guest room
authority; power; influence
family name; house name; family honour; family honor
lack of expression; blank look (on one's face)
feeling; sense; impression
more and more; all the more; at last; finally; (at the) last moment; worst possible time
diffidence; losing one's nerve; feeling awkward; feeling timid; being daunted
to sit cross-legged; to rest on one's laurels
scarecrow; figurehead; dummy
staring-out (down) game; game in which two children looking at each other try to make the opponents laugh first; constant looking at something (e.g. the computer screen, the clock, etc.)
zabuton (flat floor cushion used when sitting or kneeling; usu. rectangular)
shy; diffident; retiring; reserved
Mt.; Mount; (fig.) Mt.; (fig.) Mount
giving one's name (or rank, etc.); self-introduction; name readings of kanji
reversal; return; return gift; return favour (favor); barb (on a fishing hook); mixture of soy sauce, sugar and mirin