to listen carefully; to strain one's ears
to reach; to touch; to be delivered; to arrive; to be attentive; to be scrupulous
soft; tender; limp; subdued (colour or light) (color); gentle; meek
whispering; whisper; secret talk; murmur
as a matter of fact; to tell the truth
special characteristics; peculiarity; distinctiveness
to cease; to stop; to be over
optical illusion; hallucination; misapprehension; delusion
sleeve (esp. of a kimono); pocket of sleeve; vicinity (esp. of a bridge); foot of a mountain; base of a mountain
to compromise; to meet halfway; to step up to; to walk up to; to approach
nature; natural; spontaneous; naturally; spontaneously
to begin to open; to come out; to smile broadly; to come apart at the seams (clothes)
to get along well together; to be close to each other
mild; mild-mannered; gentle
eager; earnest; ardent; OFF (on switch)
truth; reality; truly; really; absolute truth
(ocean) deep; deepest part of a trench
to perceive; to sense; to understand; to comprehend; to attain enlightenment
to raise; to elevate; to do up (one's hair); to fly (a kite, etc.); to launch (fireworks, etc.); to land (a boat); to show someone (into a room)
brief glimpse of a woman's underwear
country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); (arch.) province (of Japan)
the person in question; the person themselves; said person
wonderful; splendid; magnificent
hello (e.g. on phone); excuse me! (when calling out to someone)
assimilation; absorption; adaptation; assimilation; anabolism; assimilation (phonology)
to fly; to soar; to jump; to leap; to spatter; to scatter; to hurry
up through; up until; down to; from ... to ... (e.g. from head to toe); everything from ... to ...
to hang; to droop; to give (e.g. lesson, instruction, scolding) (to someone of lower status); to confer; to drip; to ooze; to leave behind (at death)
seppuku; harakiri; ritual suicide by disembowelment; seppuku as a death penalty (where the convict is decapitated by a second as they make the motions to disembowel themself; Edo period)
to take off (clothes, shoes, etc.); to undress
to pollute; to contaminate; to soil; to disgrace; to dishonour; to dishonor
to come to one's senses; to calm down
motionlessly (e.g. stand, wait); (be) still; fixedly (e.g. gaze, stare); intently (e.g. listen, think); patiently (endure); stoically
to stare at; to gaze at; to look hard at; to watch intently; to fix one's eyes on
skipping out; cutting class; truancy; procrastination
what the hell; oh, great!; son of a gun; holy mackerel; oh no!; holy cow!