angle; square; cube; bishop; third degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Chinese "horn" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); jiao (monetary unit of China; one-tenth of a yuan)
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
large; big; older; senior; final; ultimate
considerably; greatly; a lot
to be raised (e.g. child); to be brought up; to grow (up)
informal summer clothes for men (short jacket and trousers)
to work; to labor; to function; to operate; to commit (e.g. a crime); to perpetrate
to give; to let (one) have; to give; to do for one; to take the trouble to do; to do to someone's disadvantage
talent; gift; function; noh (theatre)
pilchard (esp. Japanese pilchard, Sardinops melanostictus); sardine
origin; source; base; basis; cause; ingredient; material
manure; night soil; dung; something that will help one develop in the future
as a test; as an experiment; by way of experiment; by way of trial; tentatively
Mikawa (former province located in the east of present-day Aichi Prefecture)
to raise; to rear; to train; to teach; to promote the growth of; to nurture
appearing ...; looking ...; way to ...; method of ...ing; form; style
reliable; trustworthy; hopeful; promising
small; fine; minute; minor; trivial; sensitive
to pass through; to pass by; to pass (of time); to elapse; to have expired; to have ended; to exceed
to be careful; to pay attention; to take care
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
to ferry across (e.g. a river); to carry across; to lay across; to build across; to hand over; to hand in
feeling; sensation; preparedness; readiness; thought; sentiment
good; excellent; fine; nice; pleasant; agreeable
I; me; oneself; (arch.) you; (arch.) prefix indicating familiarity or contempt
also; too; not ... either; (it's not possible) no matter what; although one might wish otherwise
ah!; oh!; yes; indeed; aah; gah
although; despite; whereas; while; if only; I wish
extent; degree; limit; bounds; (span of) time; (a) distance; the state of
to bear fruit; to produce fruit
in this way; thus; such; uh...
small fish; small fry; (a) nobody; small fry; unimportant person
to pull out; to draw out; to omit; to leave out; to do to the end; to carry through; to let out (e.g. air from a tyre)
wasteland; wilderness; deserted land; prairie; vast plain; wilds
to hear; to catch (the sound of something); to hear about (rumour, etc.); to overhear; to get used to hearing
to come along; to come around; to turn up; to arrive at the present; to get where one is; to have been doing something (for a period of time)
next; following; subsequent; stage; station
drumming (noise); beating; rapidly; quickly; continuously; one after the other
to gather; to collect; to assemble
one (esp. of two); the other; on the one hand; on the other hand; whereas; although