elementary school; primary school; school for children over eight years old in ancient China; traditional Chinese philology
eccentric; crank; oddball
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
illustration; picture; sketch; drawing; figure
supervision; control; superintendence; director; superintendent; supervisor
table of contents; contents
name; given name; first name
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
plate; dish; serving; helping; kanji radical 108 (at the bottom)
be; is; did; (have) done; please; do
parallel universe; alternative reality; parallel world
-ical; -ive; -like; -ish; (something) like; along the lines of
another world (esp. in fiction); otherworld; parallel universe; different-dimension world; isekai
from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part)
present age; present day; today; modern era; modern times
Gifu prefecture (Chūbu area)
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
moving (location, with the times, etc.); change; metastasis; spread; transition (e.g. phase transition); transfer (of learning)
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
commonplace (of people or animals); ordinary; typical; ubiquitous; run-of-the-mill; found around every corner
quite; very; 10^48; quindecillion
normal; ordinary; normally; ordinarily; local train; train that stops at every station
large; big; great; prominent; -sized; as big as; university
Satan; the Devil; the Prince of Darkness; king of the demons who try to prevent people from doing good
Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582.6.21)
to do; to carry out; to cause to become; to make (into); to serve as; to act as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
genius; prodigy; natural gift
prefix for forming ordinal numbers
exercise; physical training; appeal; campaign; motion; movement
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
a little; a bit; just a minute; for a moment; somewhat; rather; (not) easily
only; just; merely; as much as; to the extent of; enough to
poor (at); weak (in); not very good (at); not one's cup of tea; not one's favorite
reverse; opposite; converse (of a hypothesis, etc.); inverse (function)
most attractive feature (of a person)
poverty-stricken; destitute; poor; penurious
detective; investigator; sleuth; detective work; secret investigation
arrow with a whistle attached; whistling arrow used to signal the start of battle
rural local self-government (Muromachi period)