debt; loan; liabilities; borrowing money
to pay (e.g. money, bill); to brush off; to wipe away; to drive away (e.g. one's competitors); to sell off (something unneeded); to dispose of; to pay (e.g. attention)
to put back; to return; to vomit; to throw up; to recover (of a market price)
reasons; circumstances; significance; hindrance; obstruction; interference
clearness; clarity; skillfulness (skilfulness)
suburb; residential area on the outskirt of a city; commuter belt
article; item; quality; flirtatiousness; coquetry
court noble; nobility; Imperial Court
Buddhist priest; bonze; close-cropped hair; crew cut; boy; sonny
prince of royal blood; Imperial prince
chief priest (of a Buddhist temple)
(head priest of) temple formerly led by founder of sect; temple in which resided a member of nobility or imperial family; (head priest of) Honganji (temple in Kyoto)
Tendai sect (of Buddhism)
formality; social rules; social status; social standing; (arch.) amendments and enforcement regulations (of the ritsuryo)
early on; earlier on; from early
reverence for the emperor; advocate of imperial rule
(arch.) lowly person; (arch.) lowliness; I
supremacy (over a nation); hegemony; domination; championship; victory
argument; discussion; theory (e.g. of evolution); doctrine; essay; treatise
courtier; noble; people serving the Imperial Court
to cross; to intersect; to associate with; to mingle with; to have a sexual relationship; to copulate
have to do; must; should; ought to
(arch.) office; (arch.) official; chief; head; (Yaeyama Islands in Okinawa) person (usually a woman) whose duty it is to officiate at religions ceremonies
previously; already; beforehand; in advance; for some time
dangerous person; security risk; loose cannon
attention; notice; care; caution; advice; warning
April; fourth month in the lunar calendar
armpit; under one's arm; beside; close to; aside; to the side; off-track
substitute (e.g. actor); substitution; stand-in; double
affair; state; verdict; sentence; directions; orders
elegance; dandyism; sophistication; affectation; showing off; putting on an air
anti-; antithesis; fanqie; traditional Chinese spelling system in which two characters are used: the first one for the onset, the second one for rhyme and tone
figure; design; twill weave; pattern of diagonal stripes; style (of writing); figure (of speech); design