gate guard (during the ritsuryo system); gate guardian; young forced labour (ritsuryo system)
subordinate work; assistant; servant
cleaning; sweeping; dusting; scrubbing
washing; laundry; relaxing; taking a break
employment (long term); hire
advanced level; high grade; senior
to collect; to gather; to compile; to arrange; to settle
speech; expression; wording; language
origin; source; base; basis; cause; ingredient; material
hey!; wait a minute!; whoa!; boohoo; waaaa
for generations; hereditary; generation after generation
to serve; to work for; to attend
to touch; to come in contact with; to receive (e.g. visitor); to attend to; to receive (news); to get; to encounter
one part; one portion; one section; one copy (e.g. of a document)
class (e.g. school); grade; rank; kyū; kyu; junior rank in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.
under (influence, control, conditions, etc. of); during (war, occupation, etc.)
person's origin (e.g. city, country, parentage, school)
to stop (an activity); to cease; to discontinue; to cancel; to abandon; to give up
to lick; to lap; to taste; to experience (esp. a hardship); to look down on (someone); to make fun of
suitable; appropriate; befitting; conjoining; association; samprayukta
manners; etiquette; propriety; manner of production (esp. of prose, poetry, etc.); way of making
learning good manners through apprenticeship (to an upper-class family)
to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do; to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features; to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside
to add; to add up; to increase; to gather (e.g. speed); to include; to count in
practice (as opposed to theory); actual practice; actual site; (at) the scene; (on) the spot
lukewarm; tepid; half-hearted; vague; lenient; mild
the more ... the more ...; as; (arch.) while; (arch.) during; (arch.) because; (arch.) since
on the surface; ostensibly; superficially; apparently
smiling; beaming; radiant; bright; cheerful
mixture of fact and fiction; half-truth
exaggeration; making a mountain out of a molehill
to laugh at; to ridicule; to mock; to make fun of; to sneer at
unusual; rare; new; novel; fine (e.g. gift)
serious; not joking; straight
today; this day; these days; recently; nowadays
to shut one's eyes; to ignore; to pretend not to know; to die
custom; practice; said; aforementioned; instance; example
near oneself; close to one; familiar
mama; mamma; mom; female proprietress (of a bar, etc.)
after this; from now on; hereafter; thereafter; since (then); after
I am sorry (to hear, to say, etc.); a pity
social meeting place; watering hole