place; location; room; space; basho; wrestling tournament
really; very; extremely; (not) anything; (not) at all; (not) a bit
honorific/polite/humble prefix
easy; simple; informal; offhand; cheap
don't; do; hey; listen; now, ...; well, ...
to get blurred; to get hoarse; to get husky; to graze; to scrape
scornful laughter; ridicule; derision; sneer
to let out; to utter; to issue; to send; to leave; to depart
human being; human; person; character (of a person)
figure; form; appearance; dress; state; condition
to be seen; to be in sight; to look; to seem; to come
dark; gloomy; depressed; dispirited; dark (in colour); dull; ill-boding
child (esp. a boy); viscount; founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius); master; masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature); (arch.) you; -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing...)
small; little; slight; below average (in degree, amount, etc.); low (e.g. sound); soft (e.g. voice)
mouth; opening; hole; mouth (of a bottle); spout; gate; door
character (esp. kanji); letter; handwriting; penmanship; the ... word (e.g. "the L word" = "love")
hand; arm; forepaw; foreleg; handle; hand; worker
to hold (in one's hand); to take; to possess; to have; to maintain; to keep; to last
school bag (usu. handheld or hung from the shoulder); schoolbag
with a slap; with a pop; without batting an eyelid; generously; cutesy suffix applied to names
to strike; to clap; to play drums; to abuse; to bash; to consult; to sound out
to get slightly dirty (all over)
to pretend not to see; to turn one's back on
again; once more; a second time
to begin to run; to start running; to break into a run
road; path; route; way; distance; journey; road (e.g. to victory)
to turn back (e.g. half-way); to return; to go back; to recover (e.g. something lost); to be returned; to rebound
it does not mean that ...; I don't mean that ...; it is not the case that...
dance hall; dance floor; landing (stairs); leveling off (e.g. in the economy); period of stagnation
to turn up (hem, sleeves, etc.); to fold back (e.g. page); to turn back; to double back; to loopback (a signal, message, etc.)
stairs; stairway; staircase
conquest; domination; mastery
reopening; resumption; restarting
daytime; during the day; Japan and China
nonexistent; not being (there); unowned; not had; unique; not; impossible
consequence; outcome; result; blame
at one's feet; underfoot; gait; pace; most recent; current
vague; ambiguous; shady; disreputable; fuzzy
how many times; how many degrees (temperature, angle, etc.)
difference in grades (e.g. in go, shoji, etc.); difference in level (e.g. road, footpath); ramp; steps
to stumble (over); to trip; to fail; to suffer a setback
sweat; perspiration; moisture; condensation; gulp; oops