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to study; to complete (a course); to order (one's life); to repair (a fault one has committed)

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classic Confucian writings

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explanation; interpretation

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restriction; restraint; limitation; limit

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natural disaster; calamity

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mysticism

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mystery; curiosity; strangeness; ghost; monster; apparition

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to warn against; to caution against; to admonish; to scold; to prohibit; to forbid; (arch.) to be cautious

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foretelling; prophecy

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weft; woof (crosswise threads on a loom)

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slaves (lowest class in the ritsuryō system); bondservants; male and female servants; manservants and maids

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emancipation of slaves

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release; unleashing; liberation; deallocation (of computer memory)

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poor person; pauper; the poor; the indigent

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lineage; pedigree; family line

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human; humane

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to judge (on the basis of); to control; to discipline (oneself); to regulate

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to go against; to fight against; to oppose; to resist; to deny

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exactly; surely; right then; just then; just (about to); on the verge (of doing or happening)

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prediction; prophecy; prognostication

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doubt

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to present; to offer; to show; to display; to assume (e.g. a shape)

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pardon; forgiveness; tolerance; leniency; mercy; going easy (on someone)

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ideological

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characteristic; feature; idiosyncrasy; spot color (in printing)

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promotion; encouragement

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educational or school system

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filial piety; showing devotion (to someone)

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honest; incorruptible; integrity

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to make it a principle to ...; to aim at doing

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complete change; about-face

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deification

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mound; hill

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project; enterprise; business; (arch.) act; (arch.) deed; (arch.) conduct

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permeation (of thought, ideology, culture, etc.); infiltration (e.g. of ideas); permeation (of a liquid, etc.); soaking; osmosis

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to build up; to establish; to form; to become (a state); to accomplish; to achieve; to change into

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legislation; laws

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fixed number; certain number; given number; definite number

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successful applicant

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Confucianism

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internal; domestic

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formalism

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inconsistency; discord; conflict; discrepancy; contradiction; failure

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omen; portent; sign; premonition; harbinger; precursor

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guardianship; guardian; (theatrical) assistant; prompter

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illegitimate child

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going according to one's wishes; ceremonial sceptre used by monks when reciting sutras (scepter)

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discouragement; despondency; dejection; disappointment

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to struggle in the water; to sink below the surface and become unable to breathe; to (nearly) drown; to indulge in; to lose one's head over something; to be addicted

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orphan; child left by the deceased; abandoned child

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