just the other day; quite recently
so to speak; so to call it; as it were
another person; other people; unrelated person (i.e. not related by blood); outsider; stranger
happy; glad; pleased; joyful; delightful; gratifying
to be dispersed; to get separated
fiction; fabrication; concoction; fictitious; fictional; imaginary
reality; actuality; hard fact
difference; distinction; discrepancy; mistake; error
difficulty; hardship; trouble; infeasibility; inability (to carry out)
to pierce; to penetrate; to sting (wound or sensitive area, etc.); to smart; to be infected (with vice); to be steeped (with prejudice)
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
blue; azure; green; green light (traffic); black (horse coat color); blue 5-point card; immature
was it?; I think it was ...; if I've got it right; (I, we) used to ...; I remember ...; it was ...
to detach; to decapitate; to cut loose; to let loose; to dismember
but then; although; though; reasonable; natural; just
either way; in any case; one way or another
China; Chūgoku region (western part of Honshu comprising the prefectures of Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Tottori and Shimane); central part of a country; main region; province of the second lowest rank (ritsuryo system)
saying; maxim; aphorism; proverb
four-character compound word (esp. idiomatic)
to receive; to get; to catch (e.g. a ball); to be struck by (wind, waves, sunlight, etc.); to sustain (damage); to incur (a loss); to undergo (e.g. surgery)
formation; establishment; conclusion (e.g. of a deal); reaching (e.g. an agreement); being valid (of a theory, argument, etc.); holding
clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.
hem; (trouser) cuff; bottom part; bottom edge; foot (of a mountain); tips (of hair)
giving two or three light tugs (or pushes); (arch.) worrying about; (arch.) moping; (arch.) suddenly angry; (arch.) feeling a surge of anger
to pull; to draw; to string (lines); to run (cable); to pull towards oneself (e.g. someone's sleeve); to drag; to haul
I; me; oneself; (arch.) you; (arch.) prefix indicating familiarity or contempt
strong; potent; strong; brawny; good (at); skilled; being able to handle
something; something or other; so-and-so; somehow; anyhow; one way or another
invulnerability; immortality; insensibility to pain
space alien; alien; extraterrestrial being
to cling to; to depend on; to embrace; to hug
tip of nose; before one's eyes; under one's nose; tip (of something)
to cover; to bury (e.g. one's face in hands); to submerge; to fill (completely); to stuff; to pack
to hesitate; to have scruples; to be afraid of what others may think; to lord it over; to have great influence
sobbing; weeping; fit of crying
mountain range; mountain belt
echo; reverberation; spirit of a tree; tree spirit
ridgeline; lines of a mountain ridge