happy; glad; pleased; joyful; delightful; gratifying
high (e.g. spirits); merry; high; high (i.e. feeling of extreme pleasure)
older sister; elder sister
(shout of) encouragement; cheering; rooting; support
to climb over; to get over; to surmount; to overcome; to surpass; to overtake
April; fourth month in the lunar calendar
diligently; seriously; perfectly; properly; sufficiently; satisfactorily
same; identical; equal; anyway; anyhow; in either case
to wear (in modern Japanese, from the shoulders down); to put on; to bear (guilt, etc.)
ogre; demon; spirit of a deceased person; ogre-like person (i.e. fierce, relentless, merciless, etc.); it (in a game of tag, hide-and-seek, etc.); Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); very
hot spring; mineral spring; salon offering beauty treatments, weight reduction, relaxation, etc.; spaghetti
-like; sort of; similar to; resembling
like; similar to; (I) think (that); (I) have a feeling (that); feels like; feels similar to
meaning; significance; sense
handmade; homegrown; hand-crafted; homemade
good flavor; good flavour; delicacy; dainty
row of cherry trees (lining a street)
cherry tree; cherry blossom; fake buyer; paid audience; hired applauder; horse meat
pretty; lovely; clean; clear; completely; entirely
to fall down; to fall over; to turn out; to play out; to abandon Christianity (and convert to Buddhism); to apostatize
to take; to pick up; to pass; to hand; to get; to obtain; to adopt (a method, proposal, etc.)
just like that; in the twinkling of an eye; in the blink of an eye; (lit.) in the time it takes to say "ah!"
to fall (e.g. blossoms, leaves); to scatter; to be dispersed; to disappear; to dissolve; to spread
to connect; to link together; to tie; to fasten; to maintain; to preserve
to withdraw from (a deal); to wash one's hands of; to lead by the hand
to make a sound; to give off a sound; to hear a sound
that is so; that is right; it looks to me; people say that; it is said that; I hear that
to mind (negative nuance); to care about; to worry; to pay undue (amount of) attention to (something)
no good; not serving its purpose; hopeless; wasted; cannot; must not
near; neighbourhood; nearly (e.g. "it took nearly one year"); close to; shortly; soon
as is; as it is; as things are; like this; this way; at this rate
to be conspicuous; to stand out
what; how many; many; a lot of; several; a few
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it; I mean
circumference; girth; surroundings; neighbourhood; people surrounding oneself; surrounding circumstances
noisy; boisterous; turbulent (era, etc.); troubled
to go through; to pass through; to get through; to cut across
mess; sorry state; -ways; -wards; in the act of ...; just as one is ...