good fortune; happiness; blessing; good luck
to call in; to invite; to bring in
implication; nuance; shade of meaning; connotation
(stone) guardian lion-dogs at Shinto shrine
origin; beginning; source; rise
China; Chūgoku region (western part of Honshu comprising the prefectures of Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Tottori and Shimane); central part of a country; main region; province of the second lowest rank (ritsuryo system)
ancestral; hereditary; imported; transmitted; handed down
route; path; channel (e.g. sales, distribution)
difference; distinction; discrepancy; mistake; error
to melt into; to dissolve into; to merge into; to blend into (surroundings); to fit in; to adapt to
kind; sort; type; equal; match; peer
hot (thing); passionate (feelings, etc.); ardent; hot (e.g. temper); zealous; enthusiastic; intense
lion; left-hand guardian dog at a Shinto shrine
room to let; room for rent
to; for; from the standpoint of; as far as ... is concerned
eccentric; oddball; character; weirdo
manners; behavior; behaviour
to carry off; to run away with; to sweep away; to take entirely for oneself; to monopolize
cliche; platitude; formula; set phrase
to rebuke strongly; to tell off
(not) anything; (nothing) at all; (not) any
as a child; when one was a child
friend; ally; supporter; taking sides with; supporting; standing by
to not know what to do with; to be at a loss with; to have difficulty with; to be put out
hot-tempered; quick to take offense; quick to take offence; irascible; touchy
to bend; to curve; to turn; to be awry; to be askew
to scold; to chide; to rebuke; to reprimand
to step firmly; to harden by treading
heat; fever; temperature; zeal; passion
remedy for a cold; cold medicine
medicine; pharmaceuticals; efficacious chemical (gunpowder, pesticide, etc.); (pottery) glaze; (illegal) drug; narcotic
sincerely; earnestly; repeatedly; over and over; again and again
Mr.; Mrs.; makes a word more polite (usu. in fixed expressions); state; situation
festival; feast; carnival
absent-mindedly; idly; vacantly; doing nothing
something to think about; one's thoughts; concern; thinking about something; being absorbed in one's thoughts
to have heard somewhere; to sound familiar
not in one's recollection; having no recollection (of); having no memory (of)
looking up (e.g. a word in a dictionary); retrieval (e.g. data); searching for; referring to
hopelessly inaccurate; not even remotely close; can't hit the side of a barn
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix