scissors; shears; clippers; hole punch
to associate with; to keep company with; to go out with; to go along with; to follow someone's lead; to accompany someone
after (practically) no time; immediately after; just; having no time to
way (of doing); manner; method; means
right; right-hand side; afore-mentioned (esp. in vertical Japanese writing); foregoing; forgoing
to turn aside adroitly; to dodge
lower back; waist; hips; body (of hair, noodle, paper, etc.); resilience; spring
to hit (e.g. one's head); to strike; to throw (e.g. a ball, a question, a demand); to express; to vent (e.g. one's anger)
to fall down; to fall over; to turn out; to play out; to abandon Christianity (and convert to Buddhism); to apostatize
to hit; to strike; to strike (noon, etc.); to sound (cymbals, etc.); to beat (rhythmically, e.g. pulse, waves, etc.); to move; to impress
tear; tears; lachrymal secretion; sympathy
to amass; to accumulate; to store; to leave unpaid
to wipe; to mop up; to get rid of (an impression, feeling, blemish, etc.); to dispel (e.g. shame); to erase
apiece; each; at a time; piecemeal
skillful; skilled; proficient; flattery
pain; anguish; suffering; duhkha (suffering)
cart (esp. a food cart); stall; festival float; portable shrine dedicated to a god and shaped like a house; stage prop fashioned after a large building; framework (of a house, etc.)
I; me; personal (affairs, etc.); private; selfishness; partiality
3 o'clock; afternoon snack (eaten around 3 o'clock); three ages of Buddhism (following the death of Gautama Buddha; age of the true law, age of the copied law, and age of the degeneration of the law); three ages of the dharma
so to speak; so to call it; as it were
limited time; limited-time offer
commodity; article of commerce; goods; stock; merchandise
stairs; stairway; staircase
to lie on top of each other; to overlap; to pile up
to miss one's footing; to be off the right track; to be on the wrong path
perfectly; right on the mark; spot on; enough; sufficiently; thoroughly
bad (taste); unpalatable; poor; unskillful; ugly; unattractive
it cannot be helped; there's nothing for it; it's no use fighting back; it's hopeless; there is no way out of it
always; without exception; necessarily; certainly; without fail; positively
feather; plume; wing; blade (of a fan, propeller, etc.); shuttlecock (in badminton); shuttlecock (in hanetsuki); arrow feathers
the person in question; prominent figure; distinguished person; that person
to lend a hand; to give a hand; to help; to extend a helping hand
that kind of; that way; that move; that trick; that game
woman; girl; daughter; Chinese "Girl" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
to bring back; to restore
dance hall; dance floor; landing (stairs); leveling off (e.g. in the economy); period of stagnation
to fall on one's backside
to crouch; to squat; to cower