to glide; to slide (e.g. on skis); to fail (an examination); to bomb (when telling a joke); to drop; to go down
to jump; to leap; to break up; to close; to hit (e.g. to have a car hit something or someone)
(ancient) Japan; Yamato (former province located in present-day Nara Prefecture)
average; mean; balance; equilibrium
to exceed (esp. figures: profits, unemployment rate, etc.); to surpass; to be more than; to be better than
to fit into (a box, frame, category, etc.); to be contained within; to settle down (into); to be installed (in one's rightful place); to settle into (one's position); to take up (a post)
adult (esp. person 20 years old or over); grownup; becoming an adult; coming of age; growing up (to be a man, woman)
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
to face; to go towards; to head towards
preference; priority; precedence
to meet (the enemy) and attack; to engage (the approaching enemy); to confront; to intercept
to be imminent; to loom; to be approaching; to be impending
insufficient; inadequate; imperfect
one of two (possibilities, alternatives, etc.)
to trample; to crush underfoot
to be oversized (overloud, etc.)
head-on; to one's face; squarely; directly; flatly (e.g. refuse)
crossing; intersection; (genetic) crossing over
if one is unlucky; if one is careless
to achieve results; to be successful (in a venture, etc.)
eternal; unlimited; endless
lower tier; lower step; lower column; low position (of a sword in kendo, etc.)
bringing certain death; deadly; knockout (blow)
state; condition; situation; appearance; circumstances
hypothesis; supposition; assumption
extent; scope; sphere; range; span
deviation; departure; omission
exhaled air; exhalation; expiration
penalty; sentence; punishment
exclamation of surprised disappointment, disgust, or worry (yuck, ick, ack, eeew, crap!, blech, gross)
close (relationship, connection, etc.); intimate; near; close (together)
trunk; torso; plastron (in kendo); touching the plastron (kimari-te in kendo); frame (of a drum, etc.); sound box (of a shamisen, etc.)
heart; guts; nerve; central part
pit of the stomach; solar plexus
to shoot out (lights, window, etc.)
to churn up; to strike up; to throw up; to tip up; to flip up
this time; now; next time; another time; recently; lately
brow; glabella; middle forehead; area between the eyebrows