to separate; to part; to divide; to keep apart
entrance; front door; entryway; entranceway; entry hall; vestibule
to hold between (e.g. one's fingers, chopsticks); to grip (from both sides); to put between; to sandwich between; to catch (e.g. a finger in a door); to trap; to insert (e.g. a break into proceedings)
sake cup; cup for alcoholic beverages; counter for cupfuls, bowlfuls, spoonfuls, etc.; counter for boats; counter for octopuses and squid; cup (in sports)
to incline; to lean; to devote oneself to; to concentrate on; to ruin; to squander
table; desk; counter for tables, desks, etc.; offering table before an altar (sometimes used in tea ceremony); tabletop incense burner
paste products (incl. sweets, fish paste, etc.); parade float; procession
knob; handle; snack (to have with a drink); side dish; a pinch (e.g. of salt); (file) handle
plate; dish; serving; helping; kanji radical 108 (at the bottom)
to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)
consciousness; awareness; relief; calm
toast; congratulatory cup
taste; elegance; appearance; air; the likes of ...; lowly people such as ...
amount necessary to fill a container (e.g. cupful, spoonful, etc.); drink (usu. alcoholic); full; one squid, octopus, crab, etc.; one boat; fully; to capacity
to drink; to gulp; to smoke (tobacco); to engulf; to overwhelm; to keep down; to suppress
to taste; to try (food or drink)
meeting face-to-face; seeing in person; facing (each other); opposing (traffic, etc.); confronting
sake cup; cup for alcoholic beverages
to gulp down (a drink); to slurp
indigenous person; inhabitant of a country; local; native; local lords and samurai; daimyo who did not leave his domains to meet the shogun in Kyoto (during the Muromachi period)
constitution (physical); physical make-up; predisposition (to disease); character (of a group, organization, etc.); innate characteristics; make-up
pure-bred (usu. animal); pure-blooded; thoroughbred
complexion; one's colour; one's color; countenance; expression; one's face
to cross over (e.g. mountain); to go across; to get over (e.g. hardship); to pass time (e.g. a winter); to surpass; to be better than; to move house
particle used to indicate the speaker's hope, desire, wish, etc. (e.g. "it would be nice if ...", "I wish there were ...", etc.); emphatic particle; particle adding uncertainty
to escape from; to get out
how much; something over; and something; however (much); no matter how
to top up (drinks, water, rice, etc.); to replenish
to tell (somebody) to (do something)
to take part in (usu. something bad); to be a party to; to have a hand in
front or rear of a palanquin (carried by two people); one of two people carrying a palanquin
one's favourite party trick (favorite); one's specialty; No. 18; eighteenth; repertoire of 18 kabuki plays
another (person); the other person; one more (person)
to manufacture; to produce; to raise (crops); to invent; to dream up; to create
workshop; studio; atelier
to temper thoroughly; to train well
to catch; to capture; to grasp (e.g. meaning); to perceive; to captivate; to move (one's heart)
concerning the result (as opposed to the means used to achieve this result or the original goal)
to escape (disaster, death, etc.); to be saved from; to be rescued from; to avoid (e.g. punishment); to evade (e.g. responsibility); to avert
self-torturing; masochistic