link; connection; filler; stopgap (job, budget, etc.); thickener (e.g. in cooking); thickening; hedging
parched rice; roasted rice
qian (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: heaven, northwest)
to roast; to parch; to toast; to boil down
omitting crucial steps; cutting corners; intentional negligence; tenuki; taking the initiative by ignoring the opponent's last move and playing somewhere else (in go)
point (of a story, argument, etc.); point (e.g. in stock exchange movement); percentage point; switch; points; point; site
is not; am not; are not; isn't it?
eldest son (may be the only son); first-born son
to renew; to replace; to change for; to attach anew
to scatter a room (with things); to leave a room a mess; to leave things lying about
as likely as not; 50-50; even match; tie
military supplies (transported to the front line); military stores
the front (of a battlefield); forefront
form; tense; adjective; i-adjective (in Japanese)
trivial; not amounting to much
for today; for the time being
to call; to summon; to send for; to call together
to get dressed up; to treat oneself
rapid completion; intensive training
order; system; structure; set-up; organization; organisation
mochi; (sticky) rice cake
walleye pollack roe (generally served salted and spiced with red pepper)
chikuwa; tube-shaped fish paste cake
Vienna sausage; wiener; Vienna coffee; Viennese
sea bream (Sparidae); porgy; tai (species of reddish-brown Pacific sea bream, Pagrus major)
sashimi (raw sliced fish, shellfish or crustaceans)
array; muster; line-up; full force
defeat; lost battle; losing a war
the point just before; the point of doing; the verge of happening
dip; dual inline package; DIP
three women make a market; many women many words; (lit.) three women gathering creates a racket