family; clan; sect; school; group of related sumo stables
inferior goods; defective product; defective goods
to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
to catch sight of; to see; to suppose; to assume from appearances
blood relationship; consanguinity; blood relative
book; document; calligraphy (esp. Chinese); penmanship; handwriting; letter
pluralizing suffix; or so; rough indicator of direction, location, amount, etc.; nominalizing suffix
to carry up; to bring up; to lift up; to elevate (someone) to a high position; to convince someone to accept a post (esp. through flattery)
eagle (Accipitridae family)
stage made of Japanese cypress (in noh, kabuki, etc.); the limelight; the big stage; the big time
to carry to extremes; to go to the end of something; to investigate thoroughly; to master
lowest seat; foot of the table; seat furthest from the seat of honour; lowest rank; bottom (e.g. of the class)
to go out of use; to become obsolete; to die out; to go out of fashion
both in name and reality; both in name and substance
poor (living); barely continuing; just scraping along; very narrow
sleeve (esp. of a kimono); pocket of sleeve; vicinity (esp. of a bridge); foot of a mountain; base of a mountain
ambition; the Buddha's great vow (to save all people)
taking over (e.g. store or family's headship); subrogation; substitution of one person for another (usu. a creditor)
failure; defective article; dead loss; good-for-nothing; worthless person; flop
word game; wordplay; playing with words
making light of; thinking little of; slighting; belittling; dismissing; contempt
even though it is not; despite not
grounding (in a skill or subject); knowledge; training; achievements; attainments; accomplishments
older brother and younger sister
fragment; one of the group or party
no use; useless; not fit for its purpose
arrogance; haughtiness; conceitedness
noninterference; leaving something to take its own course; giving someone a free hand with something
to curse; to cast a spell; to haunt; to cause a bad result; to bring about a negative outcome
you; (arch.) your residence
to cut down; to slay; to truncate; to round down; to omit; to discard
smell of something rotten; rotten smell
to lurk; to hover in the background; to be coiled up; to stretch tortuously
urgent; requiring quick (response)
to be pretentious; to put on airs; to show off
(committee) chairman; president
bitter (e.g. criticism); sharp; biting; severe; scathing; harsh
after all is said and done; no matter what people say; in the end; definitely; undeniably