library; book collection; paperback book
a gathering of many beautiful women (talented people); simultaneous emergence of many talents and achievements; (lit.) hundred flowers blooming in profusion
volume (of book); reel (of film); scroll (of books or paintings); roll (paper, etc.)
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
illustration appearing in the first pages of a publication; frontispiece
text (of a book, document, etc.); body (of a letter); this passage; this sentence
illustration; picture; sketch; drawing; figure
table of contents; contents
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
carapace; shell; 1st in rank; grade A; instep; back of hand
congratulation; celebration
ground cherry (Physalis alkekengi var. franchetii); husk tomato; Chinese lantern plant; children's noisemaking toy
chickweed (Stellaria sp.); stitchwort
prefix for forming ordinal numbers
Japanese knotweed (Reynoutria japonica); flowering bamboo
pomegranate (Punica granatum)
and; and then; thus; and now; and finally
one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start
counter for occurrences; a time; an instance; inning (baseball); round; episode; chapter
great numbers (of people); numerical superiority; masses; people; folk; clique
Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; politeness marker
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
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.
what's the best thing to do?; what to do?
indicates a question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm; huh; very
meeting; conference; session; assembly; council; convention
drumming (noise); beating; rapidly; quickly; continuously; one after the other
how; in what way; how about
somewhere; anywhere; in some respects
carefree; optimistic; careless; reckless; heedless; happy-go-lucky
voice; singing (of a bird); chirping (of an insect); voice; opinion (as expressed in words); sound; sense (of something's arrival)
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
dojo; hall used for martial arts training; manda (place of Buddhist practice or meditation, esp. the place under the bodhi tree where Buddha attained enlightenment)
training room (hall); gymnasium
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
to resound; to be heard far away; to reverberate; to shake; to come (home); to remain (with someone)
what; how many; many; a lot of; several; a few
you said; he said; if ... then; do you seriously think that; I already told you; you should know by now that; the said ...