nap; short sleep; first sleep of silkworms
reluctant; unwilling; unfortunate; sad (when something doesn't go as planned or as you had hoped)
person of firm character; stable person; gutsy person
to read out and compare (e.g. proofs against a manuscript); to check (accounts, etc.) by reading aloud
agglomerate (e.g. of cells, molecules, etc.); aggregation; mass; cluster
to add to one's experience; to become skillful
to cajole; to deceive; to seduce
(verbal) message; sending word; (arch.) excuse; (arch.) pretext
letter of inquiry; letter of enquiry
to have a guilty conscience
to visit regularly; to frequent; to haunt
regional pickle of Kyoto made from turnip-like vegetable
to manipulate figures to one's advantage; to count wrongly on purpose; to inflate or deflate one's age
minor taro root; taro cormlet; taro cormel
spoony; spooney; having a soft spot for women
interior light (in car); dome lamp
work opening; work position
family column (newspaper)
being devoted to one's wife; uxorious
fire for luring fish at night
dull; uninteresting; insignificant; unimportant; absurd; foolish
lately; recently; in recent times
explanation of a picture; explanation by means of pictures; explanation (of an incident, one's reasoning, etc.); unravelling (a mystery)
to exceed (esp. figures: profits, unemployment rate, etc.); to surpass; to be more than; to be better than
daily-use kanji (superseded in 1981)