means; method; art; magic
defense; defence; defensive preparations
neighborhood; vicinity; environs; approaching
to punch; to hit and hit; to stamp out; to pierce; to bore into; to knock down walls
tightrope walking; high-wire act; funambulism; treading a tightrope; walking on thin ice; pulling a risky balancing act
to empty; to vacate; to evacuate
(weather) front; front line; forward area; action zone
oar; all; (pulling an) all-nighter; staying up all night long
to melt; to thaw; to fuse; to dissolve
under (guidance, supervision, rules, the law, etc.); under (a flag, the sun, etc.); beneath; with (e.g. one blow); on (the promise, condition, assumption, etc. that ...); (somebody's) side
shield; buckler; escutcheon; pretext
to attract; to draw near; to charm; to attract; to have a convulsion
pig (Sus scrofa domesticus); pork; fatso; fatty
safety; security; safely; without incident; good health; inaction
to get (a joke or explanation); to strike home; to click; to know intuitively
Cao Cao (155-220), famous statesman and general at the end of Han, noted poet and calligrapher, later warlord, founder and first king of Cao Wei, father of Emperor Cao Pi; the main villain of novel the Romance of Three Kingdoms
two characters; two letters; (arch.) garlic chives (Allium tuberosum); (arch.) Chinese chives
(kanji) not in the jōyō set
change; conversion; transformation; transformation
character (esp. kanji); letter; handwriting; penmanship; the ... word (e.g. "the L word" = "love")
graphics; graphic; graphic magazine; pictorial magazine
attaching too much importance to; placing disproportionate emphasis on; making too much of
wild boar and domestic pig hybrid
to arise; to break out; to well up; to burst
appearing one after another; cropping up one after another; occurring in succession
to blow violently; to sweep over; to devastate
pioneer; trailblazer; leader; groundbreaker; pathfinder; forerunner
too; also; still; as before; even so; either way
succeeding; following; trailing; next
to separate; to part; to divide; to keep apart
approximately; about; only; nothing but; just (finished, etc.)
member; participant; attendee; lineup (sport)
last stand; last bastion; last stronghold; last frontier
thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception