library; book collection; paperback book
female office worker; office lady; overlap; orienteering
infatuation; adoration; blind love; doting (on a child)
breeding; raising; rearing
illustration; picture; sketch; drawing; figure
furnished with; including; attached to; impression; appearance; luck; sociality
tachibana orange (Citrus tachibana)
Shima (former province located at the eastern tip of present-day Mie Prefecture)
wisdom; enlightenment; prajñā (one of the three divisions of the noble eightfold path); wisdom
to change; to alter; to transform; to reform; to revise; to amend
to raise; to elevate; to do up (one's hair); to fly (a kite, etc.); to launch (fireworks, etc.); to land (a boat); to deep-fry
indicates a question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm; huh; very
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; politeness marker
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
in that way; thus; so; so?
to say; to utter; to name; to call; to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise
language; dialect; word; phrase; speech; (manner of) speaking
cruel; heartless; violent; intense; very bad; terrible
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
to remain in memory (of sounds and words); to linger in one's ears
before one's eyes; in front of one; under one's nose; immediate; imminent; around the corner
to; for; in order to; for; as for; regarding
black; black go stone; guilt; guilty person
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
white; innocence; innocent person; blank space; white go stone; white dragon tile; skewered grilled pig intestine
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
composition; construction; formation; makeup; structure; organization
fluttering; flapping; (arch.) flickering (light, flame, etc.); frill; piece of thin material
soft; tender; limp; subdued (colour or light) (color); gentle; meek
cloth; bujian (spade-shaped bronze coin of ancient China)
to make; to produce; to prepare (food); to brew (alcohol); to raise; to grow; to till
seems; I think; I guess; don't you agree?; I thought you'd say that!
Western-style clothes (cf. traditional Japanese clothes)
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
Gothic Lolita (type of teenage fashion)
to call out (to); to call; to summon (a doctor, etc.); to invite; to designate; to name; to garner (support, etc.)
large quantity; massive (quantity); mass (e.g. mass production, mass transit, mass destruction)
to take (a resource, e.g. time or money); to hang; to come into view; to arrive; to come under (a contract, a tax); to start (engines, motors); to attend
et cetera; etc.; or something; the likes of; for example; for instance