thanks; gratitude; manners; etiquette; bow; reward
to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
chance; start; cue; excuse; motive; impetus
to live; to exist; to make a living; to subsist; to be in effect; to be in use
job; work; duties; trade; skill
junior (at work, school, etc.); younger people; younger student
talent; gift; function; noh (theatre)
pulse; vein; chain (of mountains, etc.); hope; thread (of an argument)
beautiful face; good looks; beauty
marriageable age; chance of marriage
adjutant; aide; aide-de-camp
Bitchū (former province located in the west of present-day Okayama Prefecture)
in order to; for the purpose of; must; should
to lead (a) life (usu. preceded by the type of life)
management; administration; cutting up and serving food; cut and fill (e.g. earthwork)
NEET (young person not in education, employment or training)
female office worker; office lady; overlap; orienteering
child; boy; (arch.) I; (arch.) me
nonexistent; nil; none; nothing (at all); bugger-all
shadow; silhouette; reflection; image; ominous sign; light (stars, moon)
to take a view or perspective; to regard as; to consider to be
good prospects; full of hope; promising
future (usually near); prospects
to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine
free; unfettered; according to one's own whims; doing as one likes
complex; inferiority complex; complex (of buildings, facilities, etc.)
to sell (well); to be well known; to be popular; to be famous
(arch.) to be; (arch.) to be (location); sum of money
table; desk; counter for tables, desks, etc.; offering table before an altar (sometimes used in tea ceremony); tabletop incense burner
hill; height; knoll; rising ground