house (e.g. of Tokugawa); family
smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name); inferior; younger (of two people with the same name)
married couple; husband and wife; man and wife; his and hers; pair of objects, one larger (for man), one smaller (for woman)
to be complete; to be all present; to be equal; to be uniform; to gather; to assemble
to rely on; to depend on; to count on; to turn to (for help)
cormorant (Phalacrocoracidae spp.)
in front (of); before (e.g. a building); before; earlier; (the) front; frontal part; forward
to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience
older brother; elder brother; young man; buddy; fella
eel (esp. the Japanese eel, Anguilla japonica)
companion; partner; other party; addressee; opponent (sports, etc.)
sensation; feeling; tendency; propensity
waterfall; (arch.) rapids
child (esp. a boy); viscount; founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius); master; masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature); (arch.) you; -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing...)
how; in what way; by what means
to exchange; to swap; to barter; to replace; to substitute
to be aware of; to know; to notice; to feel; to understand; to comprehend; to remember
user's manual; instruction manual
telephone call; phone call; telephone (device); phone
to fall (over, down); to collapse; to be destroyed (in a collapse); to collapse; to be confined to bed (with an illness); to come down with; to die
network; Internet; net (hair, netball, etc.); net (price, weight, etc.); nett
to examine; to look up; to investigate; to check up; to sense; to study
trouble; bother; trouble; difficulty; care; attention
habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle
undressing; taking off one's clothes
to collect; to put (it all) together; to summarize; to aggregate; to bring to a conclusion; to finalize
bath; bathing; bathhouse; public bath; room for drying lacquerware; base (wooden joint connecting the blade of a hoe, spade, etc., to the handle)
childcare; child-rearing; nursing; upbringing
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
this sort of; this kind of; like this; such
just; right; pure; genuine; truth
to sleep (lying down); to go to bed; to lie in bed; to lie down; to sleep (with someone, i.e. have intercourse); to lie flat (e.g. of hair); to lie idle (of funds, stock, etc.)
to release; to let go; to free; to add (pieces of eggplant, potato, etc.) to water, broth, etc.
to stop (an activity); to cease; to discontinue; to cancel; to abandon; to give up
to get irritated; to get annoyed; to be on the edge; to fret; to lose patience
today; this day; these days; recently; nowadays
to drag along; to pull; to force someone along; to prolong; to drag out; to influence strongly
now (when it is already much too late); at this stage; afresh; anew; again
(kicking and) struggling; wriggling; floundering; to get into a panic; to make a fuss; to make a scene