character (esp. kanji); letter; handwriting; penmanship; the ... word (e.g. "the L word" = "love")
to be helpful; to be useful
community; circles; kingdom; erathem; field (electrical); border
drawing; painting; doodling; sketching
soft; software; soft hat; felt hat; soft serve ice cream; softball
name plate; name tag; label
surname; family name; last name
library; book storage; stack room; archive (file)
to be needed; to be wanted
to choose (a thing) at one's own discretion; to use one's discretion in choosing
dissatisfaction; discontent; displeasure; complaint; unhappiness
difficult to ...; hard to ...
going in and out; entering and exiting; visiting regularly; frequenting; income and expenditure; incomings and outgoings; increase and decrease
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix
counter for buildings (esp. houses); suffix for a pen name, stage name, etc.
to be lucky; to be in luck; to be attached; to have; to be included
to give up all thoughts of; to abandon; to despair of; to make up one's mind; to take a momentous decision
stairs; stairs at the front of a noh stage
person concerned; people involved (in an event); those concerned; staff
view; prospect; outlook; viewing platform; overlook
present point (i.e. in history); at the present time
gradually; steadily; slowly; little by little; step by step; by degrees
including a sum of money in one's calculations; appropriation (a sum of money)
settlement (financial); squaring accounts; liquidation; ending (a relationship); breaking up (with)
tax counsellor; tax counselor; licensed tax accountant
negotiable; further discussion needed
compendium of laws; statute books; (lit.) complete book of the Six Codes
reason; principle; general principle (as opposed to individual concrete phenomenon); (in neo-Confucianism) the underlying principles of the cosmos
medical science; medicine
to disappear into; to be lost in; to do something under the cover of (confusion, etc.); to be almost indistinguishable; to be confusingly similar; to be diverted from (negative emotions, etc.)
perhaps; possibly; maybe; if; in case; in the event that
around there; near there; or thereabouts; or so; such a matter; such a thing
foil; (gold, etc.) leaf; prestige