main question; real issue at hand
to remain; to stay (somewhere)
request; favor; favour; reliance; dependence; trust
to lay in stock; to replenish stock; to procure; to learn; to find out; to take in
spring; springtime; New Year; prime (of life); height (of one's prosperity); adolescence
day of month; counter for days
hereditary occupational group (Yamato period)
rock; boulder; crag; cliff; anchor
spring day; spring sunlight
good luck; fortune; happiness; harvest; yield
Matsuyama (city in Ehime)
to scheme; to plan; to play a trick; to invent; to conspire; to frame up
class (of students); group (of people); party; lot; bunch; crime family; organized-crime syndicate
symbol; sign; (secret) price mark; secret language; code
profound; deep; deep (of a cave, etc.); innermost; interior
number of persons; personnel
to cut up; to cleave; to spare (time, money, etc.); to use part of something; (arch.) to have a tattoo in the corner of one's eye
usual; ordinary; normal; regular; general; common
to kill one's enemy (opponent)
returning alive; surviving; reaching the home plate
nerve; nerves; sensitivity
to sharpen; to grind; to whet; to hone; to make keen
one part; one portion; one section
full moon; moon on the 15th day of the month (by the lunar calendar); full moon of the eighth lunar month
large bird; peng (in Chinese mythology, giant bird said to transform from a fish); fenghuang (Chinese phoenix)
achievement; attainment; accomplishment; realization
aspiration; volunteering; desire; application
vigorous; cheerful; assertive
astonishment; amazement; surprise; fright; shock
short pause; short interval
being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)
hospitalization; hospitalisation
to begin to say; to start talking; to broach (a matter); to be the first to say; to suggest (doing); to propose
stamina; endurance; physical strength; strength of an organization (e.g. profitability, productivity, economic clout, stability, growth potential)
competent; suitable; qualified
basics; fundamentals; basis; foundation
covert action; covert operations
place hidden from view; cover; shelter; hiding place
to withdraw; to leave; to retire; to back down; to give up
cutting to pieces; tearing to pieces
estimate; guess; direction; bearings; registration mark (printing); approximately
know your enemy, know thyself, and you shall not fear a hundred battles
even at the best of times; already; (even) under normal circumstances; in addition to; as it is
equality; uniformity; evenness