to name; to call; to christen; to term
before long; soon; almost; nearly; finally; in the end
far away; distant place; long ago; far back; by far
near; close; beside; vicinity; proximity; besides
promise; agreement; convention; rule; destiny; fate
(not) anywhere; nowhere; everywhere; anywhere
sentence; composition; text; the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts); academia; statement
to write; to compose; to pen; to draw; to paint
pardon; forgiveness; exemption; permission
to get; to earn; to understand; to comprehend; to receive something undesirable (e.g. a punishment); to get (ill)
piercing (cold); biting (wind)
selection; choice; option
to snatch away; to dispossess; to steal
to continue; to keep up; to keep on
the best one can do; one's best effort; with all one's might; to the best of one's ability
resistance; opposition; reluctance; repulsion; resistance; drag
trace; tracks; site; remains; scar
to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.); to inherit; to patch (clothes); to mend; to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire); to replenish with
charge; cost; generation; age; era; a representative of; on behalf of
life; lifetime; career; for life; all one's life; throughout one's life
to serve; to work for; to attend
to be sufficient; to be enough; to be worth doing; to be worthy of; to do (the job); to serve
execution by tying a victim to a post and stabbing with spears; crucifixion
seat; place; position; status; gathering; party; stand
to take back; to regain; to get back; to recover
palace; tonic (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); ancient Chinese punishment (castration for men, or confinement for women); zodiacal sign
to be aware of; to know; to notice; to feel; to understand; to comprehend; to remember
grounds (esp. of shrines and temples); compound; churchyard; precincts
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix
name; given name; first name
origin; source; history; originally; from the start; by nature
unusual; rare; new; novel; fine (e.g. gift)
to deify; to enshrine; to pray; to worship