midfielder (soccer); medium frequency; MF; manual focus; microfinance
library; book collection; paperback book
old man; venerable gentleman
cover; covering; covering (a song); cover; coverage; to cover (a loss)
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
chapter one; first chapter
hot spring; onsen; hot spring resort; hot spring spa
to enter; to come in; to join (a club, company, etc.); to enter (a university, the army, etc.); to be contained (in); to be included (in); to (be able to) fit (in a container, building, etc.)
if; when; and; as well as; with; together with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.)
to sing; to sing of (love, beauty, etc.) in a poem; to express in the form of a poem; to recite (a poem)
chapter; section; medal; badge; insignia
edge (of a knife or sword); blade; prong (of an electrical plug)
at; in; to; toward; to; for; because of
light; illumination; ray; happiness; hope; influence; power
indicates the subject of a sentence; indicates possession; but; however; and; used after an introductory remark or explanation; regardless of ...
to dwell (in); to exist (within); to stay (at); to stop (at); to be in the womb (of an unborn child); to be part of a constellation
time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity
parent and child meeting (with teacher for course, career guidance, etc.)
to come along; to come around; to turn up; to arrive at the present; to get where one is; to have been doing something (for a period of time)
companion; partner; other party; addressee; opponent (sports, etc.)
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have ...-ed; to be ...-ed
after all; in the end; conclusion; end; end of a game of go, shogi, etc.
anxiety; uneasiness; worry; apprehension; fear; insecurity
prefix for forming ordinal numbers
mask; disguise; guise; mask
below; down; bottom; beneath; underneath; just after; right after
to laugh; to smile; to sneer; to ridicule; to be dumbfounded; to be flabbergasted
everything; all; the whole; entirely; completely; wholly
to disappear; to vanish; to go out (of a fire, light, etc.); to die; to fade (of a feeling, impression, etc.); to vanish (e.g. of hope); to go away (e.g. of a smell, itchiness, sleepiness)
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
time; hour; period; class
at; in; at; when; by; with; so