to understand; to appreciate; to interpret
just managing; with great difficulty
white; innocence; innocent person; blank space; white stone; white dragon tile; skewered grilled pig intestine
basic tone; underlying tone; trend; keynote
charge; cost; generation; age; era; a representative of; on behalf of
to eat; to live; to make a living; to bite; to sting (as insects do); to tease; to torment
to let pass; to allow through; to transmit (e.g. light, sound, etc.); to conduct (electricity); to stick through (e.g. a hole); to force through (e.g. an opening); to connect (e.g. two places)
counter for people (usu. seating, reservations and such); first name; famous; great; name; noun
seiza; kneeling with the tops of the feet flat on the floor, and sitting on the soles
surprise; astonishment; wonder; amazement
feeling of a house or a room
chief seat; seat of honor; seat of honour; head of the table
lowest seat; foot of the table; seat furthest from the seat of honour; lowest rank; bottom (e.g. of the class)
natural; right; proper; naturally; as a matter of course; rightly
slanting; tilted; sloping; distorted (feeling); slanted (e.g. view of the world); bad (mood)
there; over there; genitals; private parts; that far; that much
long kimono; ankle-length traditional Japanese garment
space; air; midair; (from) memory; (by) heart
to look at; to gaze at; to look out over; to get a view of; to look on (from the sidelines); to stand by and watch
unmarried woman; Miss; -ess; -ette
truth; reality; seriousness; truth; printed style writing; star performer
to pin down; to hold down; to cover (esp. a part of one's body with one's hand); to clutch (a body part in pain); to get a hold of; to obtain; to grasp (a point)
to glare at; to scowl at; to stare intensely at; to examine carefully; to estimate; to guess
extinction (e.g. of a family); dying out; discontinuation; severance (e.g. of relations); rupture; breaking off
crisis; critical situation; emergency; pinch
charm; incantation; spell; curse
to etch (name, etc.); to carve (design)
to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
always; without exception; necessarily; certainly; without fail; positively
eldest son (may be the only son); first-born son
reserve; spare; preparation; preliminaries
consumption; expenditure; spending
long (time); longstanding; for a long time
front stage; center stage (of politics, etc.)
(those) who are; (that) which is; in the capacity of
appropriate; adequate; suitable; fitting; worthy
by all rights; properly speaking; legally speaking
to dress (oneself in); to attire oneself in; to adorn; to pretend; to feign; to affect
without; but if; otherwise; or else
substitution; replacement; shifting; change
to be silent; to say nothing