(weather) front; front line; forward area; action zone
to hang; to suspend; to lower; to reduce; to demote; to move back
black; black go stone; guilt; guilty person
li (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: fire, south)
soul; spirit; departed soul; ghost
period of time (usu. a period of approx. two hours corresponding to one of the signs of the Chinese zodiac); carving; engraving; victory; strictness; cruelty
arrangement (of resources); deployment; stationing; posting; disposition; configuration
to take (seat, position, course, office, etc.); to assume; to ascend (the throne); to accede; to start (on a journey); to commence
Wu; region in China, south of the lower Yangtze; Wu; Southern Wu; Wu; Eastern Wu
retreat; withdrawal; retirement
United Kingdom; Britain; English (language)
to continue; to keep up; to keep on
to pull; to tug; to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest); to draw back (e.g. one's hand); to draw in (one's chin, stomach, etc.); to draw (a card, mahjong tile, etc.)
what!; oh; what the heck; what the; damn
go that far; to that extent
response (felt in the hands); resistance; reaction; response; effect
to chase; to run after; to follow (a set order, a trend, etc.); to drive out; to get rid of; to drive (e.g. a herd)
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
to become known; to come to light; to be known; to be understood; to clearly not amount to much; to be insignificant
company; group; class; troop; rank; file
there; that situation; that occasion; the spot (i.e. "on the spot"); immediately; then and there
stoppage; coming to a stop; ceasing (movement, activity, etc.); suspension (of operations); suspension (of payment, licence, etc.); (temporary) prohibition
to be (animate); to be; to be ..ing; to (have the audacity to) do
misunderstanding; mistaken idea; wrong guess
amateur; layman; respectable woman (i.e. not a prostitute, hostess, geisha); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute
first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)
to wait; to await; to look forward to; to depend on; to need
bad (taste); unpalatable; poor; unskillful; ugly; unattractive
to move; to stir; to operate; to run; to make a move; to take action; to be touched
spear; lance; javelin; lance; (arch.) jeering
rain; rainy day; rainy weather; the November suit (in hanafuda)
to rain incessantly; to downpour
by means of; due to; because of; according to
near; neighbourhood; nearly (e.g. "it took nearly one year"); close to; shortly; soon
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
many; much; majority (of); greater part (of); mostly; mainly