phantom; vision; illusion; extremely rare item
hut; house; boarding house; school dormitory; (arch.) one day's march (approx. 12.2 km)
aloof; proudly independent; standing apart; solitary
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
prefix for forming ordinal numbers
volume (of book); reel (of film); scroll (of books or paintings); roll (paper, etc.)
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
work (e.g. book, film, composition, etc.); opus; performance; production
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
author (usu. of a particular book); writer
real experience; actual observations
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.
origin; source; base; basis; cause; ingredient; material
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
formation; establishment; conclusion (e.g. of a deal); reaching (e.g. an agreement); being valid (of a theory, argument, etc.); holding
one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start
multiplication table; times table
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
ago; since; before; previous
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
establishment; creation; posing (a problem); options setting; preference settings; configuration
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
to write; to compose; to pen; to draw; to paint
but; however; provided that
one part; one portion; one section; one copy (e.g. of a document)
character (in a play or novel); dramatis personae
as (e.g. "do as one is told", "as we age we gain wisdom"); wherever (e.g. "wherever my fancy took me")
to have the privilege of doing
information; news; report; reward; retribution
university; college; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)
to face; to go towards; to head towards
time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity
to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed
mobile telephone; cellular telephone
sound; noise; note; fame; Chinese-derived character reading
to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine
to step on; to tread on; to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to experience; to undergo; to follow (rules, principles, etc.)