pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
to see; to witness; to observe; to catch sight of; to get a glimpse of; to encounter
one's house; one's home; one's family
apron; apron (airport); apron (stage)
to attach; to join; to furnish (a house with); to wear; to put on; to keep a diary; to make an entry
practicality; utility; usefulness
speaking of ...; when it comes to ...; as for ...; if one were to say ...
intricate; elaborate; complicated; complex
ingenuity; inventiveness; creative originality
to build up; to establish; to form; to become (a state); to accomplish; to achieve; to change into
vulgar; indecent; coarse; crude
wonderful; splendid; magnificent
to wear (in modern Japanese, from the shoulders down); to put on; to bear (guilt, etc.)
honorific/polite/humble prefix
guest; visitor; customer; client; counter for containers used to entertain guests
position; situation; viewpoint; standpoint; point of view
should (be); bound (to be); nock (of a bow); nock (of an arrow); nock-shaped grip (between thumb and forefinger); wooden frame on the tip of the mast of a Japanese ship that prevents the hawser from falling out
spare time; free time; time (e.g. time it takes to do something); time off; day off; quitting (one's job); firing someone
to use (a thing, method, etc.); to make use of; to use (a person, animal, puppet, etc.); to employ; to use (time, money, etc.); to spend
by myself; in person; by oneself
to arrive at (e.g. a decision); to reach (a stage); to lead to (a place); to get to; in the extreme case of; (arch.) to come
large quantity; massive (quantity); mass (e.g. mass production, mass transit, mass destruction)
sure; no mistaking it; for certain; without doubt
reserve; constraint; declining; refraining; forethought; foresight
to tell (somebody) to (do something)
to lose one's way; to get lost; to waver; to hesitate; to give into temptation; to lose control of oneself
above; up; top; summit; surface; before; previous
to accept a kind offer; to take someone up on their offer
to decide to; to pretend that; to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to
tool; implement; means; furniture
pattern paper (for dressmaking)
materials; ingredients; material (for a novel, experiment, etc.); subject matter; grounds (for a decision, judgement, etc.); basis
necessary; needed; essential; necessity; need; requirement
heresy; evil ways; sorcery; black magic; netherworld; world outside the six realms where evil spirits roam