anyone; anybody; everyone; everybody; whoever
to hold in one's arms (e.g. a baby); to embrace; to hug; to have (a thought or feeling); to hold; to harbour (suspicion, doubt, etc.)
when it comes to ...; if one were to speak of ...; by ... you mean ...; when you say ... you mean that ...; whenever ...; if it's ... then (without fail)
gear; speed (e.g. 4-speed transmission)
to run around; to bustle about
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
freely; right and left; as one pleases
transcendence; excellence; superiority
other self; alter ego; part of oneself (in someone or something else); incarnations of Buddha
art; technique; means; way; trick; trap
to see; to witness; to observe; to catch sight of; to get a glimpse of; to encounter
front and rear; front and back; before and after; around; about; order; context
certain; some kind of; some sort of; of sorts
to make a mistake (in); to commit an error (e.g. in calculation); to confuse; to mistake something for something else
foot; paw; leg; gait; pace; bottom structural component (i.e. radical) of a kanji; means of transportation
to step into (e.g. someone else's territory); to break into; to raid; to come to grips with; to get to the core of
to strike against; to collide with; to encounter; to meet; to clash
dust; trash; garbage; negligible amount; tiny bit; hustle and bustle (of life)
this world; this life; world of the living
extinction; extinguishment; disappearance; annihilation
going in and out; entering and exiting; visiting regularly; frequenting; income and expenditure; incomings and outgoings; increase and decrease
duck; easy mark; sucker; sitting duck
this way (of doing); this method; this sort (of thing); this type
party (of people); set (of people); clan; family; fellow
to aim at (with a weapon, etc.); to be after (something or someone); to have an eye on; to aim for; to set up as a goal
head; brains; intellect; understanding
clique; group; (political) faction; wing; school; sect
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)
physical law; laws of physics
movement; move; motion; trend; development; change
collapse; break; cave-in; crash; (market) decline
wooden; made of wood; wooden construction
tree; shrub; bush; wood; timber
meagre; meager; scarce; limited; destitute; hard up
surely; clearly; without a doubt; in all probability; no matter how one slices it; no matter how one looks at it
to bear; to stand; to support; to withstand; to be fit for; to be equal to
those (near the second person)
to stick through; to force through; to spread throughout; to thoroughly diffuse; to make a path between two points; to proceed in a logical manner; to let pass
material; material properties; quality of material; quality of wood; quality of lumber
feel (of a material); texture