great; excellent; very troublesome; awful; tiring; tough
to lose (money, etc.); to waste one's (time, etc.); to have one's efforts come to naught
scolding; telling-off; rebuke; complaint; grumbling; fault-finding
to begin to attend (e.g. school)
this, that and the other; this and that
noisy; loud; annoying; troublesome; fussy; finicky
sidelong glance; short grain (paper)
automatic; intransitive verb
superficial; half-hearted; shallow
long sword (esp. the tachi, worn on the hip edge down by samurai); large sword; straight single-edged Japanese sword (from the mid-Heian period or earlier)
hitting a ball; batting; stroke
somewhere; anywhere; in some respects
ambush; lying in wait for an ambush
even so (expressing frustration, etc.); still
direction; way; point of the compass; cardinal direction; method; means
to change; to swap; to change the object of one's interest or focus; to spend or take time; to infect; to permeate something with the smell or colour of something; to move on to the next or different stage of (a plan, etc.)
to extend; to stretch out; to attend; to participate in; to enrol; to enroll
ground; earth; the solid earth; the (vast) land
rock; boulder; crag; cliff; anchor
lump; mass; group; crowd; embodiment (of an idea, quality, feeling etc.); personification
to swoop down upon; to fly down; to alight
to tower over the surroundings
extremely; in the extreme; knows no bounds (e.g. rudeness); boundless (e.g. universe, ocean); limitless
immortal; undying; indestructible
shintai; object of worship believed to contain the spirit of a deity, typically housed in a shrine
nearly; almost; on the verge (of happening)
to squash; to crush; to flatten
supposing; even if; granting that; temporarily; provisionally; for the time being
above; going steadily upward
don't you think?; indicates question
one part; one portion; one section; one copy (e.g. of a document)
zhen (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: thunder, east)
rain; rainy day; rainy weather; the November suit (in hanafuda)
to pile up; to stack up; to accumulate
to build up; to establish (one's reputation)
cave; hollow; cavity; hollow
to smash; to crush; to shut down; to put out of business; to wreck; to break; to butcher
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
to be excited; to be elated
no!; no no!; no, not at all
whirling; revolving; coiling around; winding around; working tirelessly; working hard
rotation (usu. around something); revolution; turning
to prick; to stab; to poke; to prod; to use (a cane); to prop oneself up with
anything and everything; just about everything