country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); (arch.) province (of Japan)
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
number one; first; best; most; game; round
to see; to witness; to observe; to catch sight of; to get a glimpse of; to encounter
to be able (to); to be possible (to)
place; location; room; space; basho; wrestling tournament
three; three years of age
in general; generally; as a whole; all in all; altogether
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
to call out (to); to call; to summon (a doctor, etc.); to invite; to designate; to name; to garner (support, etc.)
inside; within; while (e.g. one is young); during; among; amongst; in (secret, chaos, poverty, etc.)
centre; center; middle; capital; seat of government
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen
head (of a household, etc.); leader; owner; proprietor; subject (of a rumour, etc.); doer (of a deed); guardian spirit (e.g. long-resident beast, usu. with mystical powers)
various; varied; diverse; all sorts of
by means of; due to; because of; according to
smooth; undisturbed; uninterrupted; harmonious
to manage a state; to govern a country
ingenuity; inventiveness; creative originality
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
to give (time, money, goods); to donate; to do; to perform; to apply (processing, makeup, etc.); to add (e.g. ornamentation, annotation)
sky; the air; weather; far-off place; distant place; state of mind; feeling
all; altogether; entirely; exactly like; just like; spitting image of
to project; to show; to portray; to depict; to describe
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
national border; provincial border
to stick; to paste; to stretch; to spread; to form (e.g. ice on a pond); to fill; to swell
new; novel; fresh; recent; latest; up-to-date
(fixing) boundaries for religious practices; prohibition (of items, people, spirits, etc. that would hinder Buddhist practice); fence between inner and outer sanctums in a temple; (arch.) short two or three-fold lattice around the front desk of a store; barrier; dimensional barrier
every place; various places
arrangement (of resources); deployment; stationing; posting; disposition; configuration
injustice; unfairness; wrongdoing; iniquity; impropriety; irregularity
to work; to labor; to function; to operate; to commit (e.g. a crime); to perpetrate
indicates a question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm; huh; very
monitoring; watching; observation; surveillance; guarding; supervision
reflective water surface; reflecting water
to make; to produce; to prepare (food); to brew (alcohol); to raise; to grow; to till
mountain; hill; mine (e.g. coal mine); heap; pile; crown (of a hat); thread (of a screw)
whole area; whole region; stretch (of land); tract; belt
(many) trees; every tree; all kinds of trees
to burn down (to the ground); to clear away by burning; to reduce to ashes; to burn off