kitchen; financial situation
the present; present time; as of; present tense; this world; this life
developing (e.g. industry, town, economy)
to smash; to crush; to shut down; to put out of business; to wreck; to break; to butcher
salt; common salt; hardship; toil; saltiness; cold
to burn; to roast; to broil; to heat; to heat up; to make (charcoal, pottery, bricks, etc.); to bake
to burn; to scorch; to singe; to char
to boil; to simmer; to stew; to seethe
to emit; to spout; to spurt; to boil over
to spill; to drop; to grumble; to complain; to let one's feelings show
to make a mistake; to mess up; to make an error; to err
(United States of) America; USA
to cook (grains, e.g. rice); to boil; to simmer; to stew
(not) well; (not) properly; (not) enough; (not) sufficiently; (not) satisfactorily; (not) decently
cut; cutting; haircut; shuffle (cards); shuffling; scene
Yoshinoya gyudon (beef on rice)
(emotional) tension; anxiety; (highness of) spirits; (good) mood; tension; tensile strength
base (e.g. of a triangle); low class; low in social standing; base (e.g. of support); foundation
to fall below (esp. figures: profits, unemployment rate, etc.); to be less than; to be lower than; to fall just short of; to be just under
underground; subterranean
mole (Talpidae spp., esp. the small Japanese mole, Mogera imaizumii)
to burrow through; to dig through
practice; training; drill; (an) exercise; workout
left utterly helpless; have no one to turn to; unapproachable
style; way; shape; form; appearance; state
image; figure; figure; form; image
to get late; to advance; to wear on
method; manner; appearance; air; tendency; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)
bathing; to bathe; to take a bath; to enter a bath
hot water; hot bath; hot spring; molten iron
to stick; to paste; to stretch; to spread; to form (e.g. ice on a pond); to fill; to swell
which way; which direction; which one (esp. of two alternatives); who
cartoon; comic; comic strip; manga
bookshelves; bookshelf; bookcase
tankōbon; (manga) volume; (comic) trade paperback; single book (as opposed to magazine, anthology, etc.); separate volume
to be absorbed in reading
tea; tea plant (Camellia sinensis); tea preparation; making tea; brown; (arch.) mockery