shadow; silhouette; reflection; image; ominous sign; light (stars, moon)
to jump upon (a moving object)
everyone; everybody; all; everything; all
to meet; to assemble; to congregate
adds force or indicates command
voice; singing (of a bird); chirping (of an insect); voice; opinion (as expressed in words); sound; sense (of something's arrival)
to resound; to be heard far away; to reverberate; to shake; to come (home); to remain (with someone)
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...
head; chief; merit; strong point; superiority; major
to learn; to acquire knowledge; to carry; to wear (clothes, etc.); to put on
old person; senior citizen; the aged; the elderly
this sort of; this kind of; like this; such
upper floor (of a high-rise building)
big; large; loud; extensive; spacious; important
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
indicates word or phrase being defined; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); with; (not) as much as; (not) so much as; the fact that
mystery; curiosity; strangeness; ghost; monster; apparition
with the exception of; excepting; excluding
something; nothing (with neg. verb)
it is not (like that) either
honorific/polite/humble prefix
to be seen; to be in sight; to look; to seem; to come
right?; isn't it?; hey; say; you know; you see; will you?
to wait; to await; to look forward to; to depend on; to need
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.)
to be (animate); to be; to be ..ing; to (have the audacity to) do
to enter; to go into; to break into; to join; to enroll; to contain; to hold
good; OK; all right; fine; very well; will do
I wonder; should I?; is it?; I wish that; I hope that
yes; that is correct; um; errr; huh?; grrr
(fixing) boundaries for religious practices; prohibition (of items, people, spirits, etc. that would hinder Buddhist practice); fence between inner and outer sanctums in a temple; (arch.) short two or three-fold lattice around the front desk of a store; barrier; dimensional barrier
to untie; to unfasten; to unsew; to unstitch; to solve; to work out; to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.)
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen
to invite; to ask; to beckon; to wave someone in; to call in; to send for
model; type (e.g. of machine, goods, etc.); type; style; mold (mould); template; kata (standard form of a movement, posture, etc. in martial arts, sport, etc.)
talent; gift; function; noh (theatre)
smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name); inferior; younger (of two people with the same name)
figure; form; appearance; dress; state; condition
to disappear; to vanish into thin air
door (Western-style, car, etc.)
to open; to undo; to bloom; to unfold; to open (for business, e.g. in the morning); to be wide (gap, etc.); to widen
oh; ho; exclamation of surprise, admiration, etc.; hoo (owl call); toot (sound of a flute)
discourtesy; impoliteness; excuse me; goodbye; to leave; to be rude