group with a common interest (e.g. students); club (e.g. company sports club); circle; circle (shape)
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
elbowroom; leeway; room; reserve; margin; allowance
job hunting; job searching
busy; occupied; hectic; restless; hurried; fidgety
voice; singing (of a bird); chirping (of an insect); voice; opinion (as expressed in words); sound; sense (of something's arrival)
something; some; somehow; for some reason; (is there) something (you want, etc.)
to feign ignorance; to pretend one doesn't know
female; woman; female sex; female lover; girlfriend; mistress
what; you-know-what; that thing; whatsit; whachamacallit; (not) at all; (not) in the slightest
to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to hear about; to hear of; to follow (advice, order, etc.)
to resound; to be heard far away; to reverberate; to shake; to come (home); to remain (with someone)
dark; gloomy; depressed; dispirited; dark (in colour); dull; ill-boding
interesting; fascinating; amusing; funny; enjoyable; fun
name; given name; first name
avenue; street; coming and going; street traffic; flow (of water, air, etc.); transmission (of sound); reach (e.g. of voice)
one's own convenience; one's way; surroundings; environment; convenience; ease of use; financial circumstances
to force someone to clamp with their teeth; to force into someone's mouth (e.g. a gag); to wedge into a space; to inflict (a blow); to deal (a hit); to pull (a joke)
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
university; college; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)
to enter; to go into; to break into; to join; to enroll; to contain; to hold
after all; because; but; even; too; as well
indicates a question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm; huh; very
although; despite; whereas; while; if only; I wish
isn't it?; don't you think?; right?; surely; come on
everyone; everybody; all; everything; all
that is so; that is right; it looks to me; people say that; it is said that; I hear that
something like ...; things like ...; someone like ...; the likes of ...
student waiting for another chance to enter university after having failed the yearly entrance examination
(in spite of) being old enough to know better
school of one's (first, second) choice
large; big; great; prominent; -sized; as big as; university
imperial capital (esp. Kyoto); final word of an iroha poem; 10^16; 10,000,000,000,000,000
to be aware of; to know; to notice; to feel; to understand; to comprehend; to remember
great; excellent; very troublesome; awful; tiring; tough
contacting; (making) contact; connection (with a train, bus, etc.); joining (a railway line, etc.); connection (between matters, incidents, etc.); relation
how; in what way; by what means
to ferry across (e.g. a river); to carry across; to lay across; to build across; to hand over; to hand in
together; at the same time; same; identical
just (e.g. "just wait here"); come now; tolerably; passably; well...; I think...
small shot bar with an all-female staff