rice ball coated with sweetened red beans, soybean flour or sesame
to read and understand; to take in; to sense from external cues; to read (someone's) mind; to read (calibration, tape, etc.); to scan (bar code)
confident; full of confidence; cocky; full of oneself
drawstring purse; money pouch; pouch of fried tofu stuffed with var. ingredients, used in oden; (arch.) unlicensed prostitute (Edo period)
it seems so; that's what it looks like
buying and reading (book, magazine, etc.); subscribing (incl. free subscriptions); taking (e.g. newspaper)
one large ...; a great ...
descriptive poetry; epic poem
to lean coquettishly against; to snuggle into; to nestle into
thank you for the meal; that was a delicious meal; what a wonderful meal
to put together; to gather; to collect; to scrape together
chattering; talk; idle talk; chatty; talkative; chatterbox
intermittently; bit by bit; little by little; in drops (e.g. of rain)
brushwork; handling of one's brush; command of one's pen; penmanship
to finish up; to complete; to finish off; to get through; to polish off
retaining wall; sheathing
cruelty; hard-heartedness
to disappear into; to slip into; to be lost in; to be mixed up with
giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis); qilin (Chinese unicorn); (arch.) horse that can ride 1000 ri in a day
normally; ordinarily; by anyone's standards; by normal standards; without any issues; without any difficulty
individual; distinctive; unique; characteristic; personal; idiosyncratic
saddening (dye); agent used in dyeing to darken a colour; blanching
strong and weak points; likes and dislikes; strengths and weaknesses
lie; rye; rai (Algerian music style)
rest area; rest stop; service area (next to a highway); service station; parking area
yellowish; tinged with yellow
crying hard; crying one's eyes out; loud crying; wailing; profuse weeping
to demolish; to tear down; to pull down
proposed site; site chosen
through a wall; on the other side of a wall
haiku; 17-mora poem, usu. in 3 lines of 5, 7 and 5 morae