one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start
chapter; section; medal; badge; insignia
head (chief, director) of a section or department; head of a (school) club; head of a (school) team
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
anti-; antithesis; fanqie; traditional Chinese spelling system in which two characters are used: the first one for the onset, the second one for rhyme and tone
Tokyo Metropolis (prefecture); Tokyo metropolitan area
box; case; car (of a train, etc.); shamisen case; shamisen; public building; community building
senior high school; high school
that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...
at; in; to; toward; to; for; because of
schoolgirl; female student
voice; singing (of a bird); chirping (of an insect); voice; opinion (as expressed in words); sound; sense (of something's arrival)
indicates the subject of a sentence; indicates possession; but; however; and; used after an introductory remark or explanation; regardless of ...
to resound; to echo; to reverberate
one day; (on) a certain day
abrupt; sudden; unexpected
another world (esp. in fiction); otherworld; parallel universe; different-dimension world; isekai
from; since; through (e.g. a window, door); via; because; as; from (as in "made from")
girl; daughter; baby girl; young woman
appearance; emergence; advent; arrival; showing up; coming to existence
living together; coexistence
start; beginning; starting (e.g. a race); departing; starting point
if; when; and; as well as; with; together with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.)
oh!; good heavens!; ugh!; oh no!; ah!; the penny drops!
just (e.g. "just wait here"); come now; tolerably; passably; well ...; I think ...
narrow; confined; small; limited; narrow-minded; confining
room; chamber; apartment; flat; stable
inside; interior; among; within; middle; center; during
indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
both (hands, parents, sides, etc.); counter for carriages (e.g. in a train); counter for vehicles; ryō; tael; ryō; pre-Meiji unit of currency, orig. the value of one ryō of gold
at; in; at; when; by; with; so
guarding; guard; railway bridge (over a road); (railroad) overpass; flyover
to do; to carry out; to cause to become; to make (into); to serve as; to act as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
while; even though; despite
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
to open one's mouth (to talk); to (start to) tell
single word; a few words; brief comment
to say; to utter; to name; to call; to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise