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
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
partition; division; separation; segmenting; splitting
slanting; tilted; sloping; distorted (feeling); slanted (e.g. view of the world); bad (mood)
pattern; figure; state; condition; conjecture of the current situation; the way it seems; model
horizontal (as opposed to vertical); lying down; side-to-side (as opposed to front-to-back); width; side (of a box, etc.); beside
half; semi-; half-past; odd number; (arch.) unit of land area (595.8 m^2)
the vertical; height; front-to-back; length; north-to-south; vertical (relationship)
band (e.g. conduction, valence); belt (e.g. Van-Allen, asteroid, etc.)
Yamagata (city, prefecture); mountain shape; chevron; cone
red; red color (colour); red-colored; red; communism; the left
pink (colour, color); (lit.) colour of peach (flowers)
thin; pale; light; watery; thin; weak (taste, etc.); little (affection, etc.) not much (of a presence)
red; crimson; red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange); Red (i.e. communist); red light (traffic); red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red
green; emerald green; green color of new foliage; verdure
bluish-green; turquoise; aqua
stairs; stairway; staircase
right; right-hand side; afore-mentioned (esp. in vertical Japanese writing); foregoing; forgoing
obi; kimono sash; paper wrapper on books, CDs, etc.; band; belt; cingulum
counter for waves (of a repeated occurrence)
pointing down; pointing downward; (market) decline; downturn; downward trend
entering; setting (of the Sun); containing; content; income; beginning
copper (Cu); bronze (medal)
Mr.; Mrs.; makes a word more polite (usu. in fixed expressions); state; situation
centre; center; middle; capital; seat of government
to plant; to grow; to insert; to transplant; to inoculate (e.g. an infectious agent); to instill (idea, value, etc.)
cross; crossed; cruciform
pointing up; pointing upward; upturn; uptrend; upward tendency
gradation; gradation haircut; taper
upper end; top; tip; top edge