yes; yeah; huh?; what?; not; 's
mishearing; (feigned) deafness; homophonic translation of song lyrics for comic effect
I wonder; should I?; is it?; I wish that; I hope that
pillar; post; support; prop; counter for buddhas, gods, nobles, etc.
warp (fictional faster-than-light spacecraft propulsion)
no good; not serving its purpose; hopeless; wasted; cannot; must not
dangerous; risky; awful; terrible; terrific; amazing
entrance; entry; gate; approach; mouth
why?; what for?; how?; by what means?
to go through; to suffer; to experience (something unpleasant)
presentiment; premonition; hunch; to have a premonition; to have a hunch
black; black go stone; guilt; guilty person
blue; azure; green; green light (traffic); black (horse coat color); blue 5-point card; immature
this very day; today is the day (that ...); today for sure
to permit; to allow; to forgive; to pardon; to exempt (someone) from; to remit; to acknowledge
red; crimson; red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange); Red (i.e. communist); red light (traffic); red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red
readiness; preparedness; resolution; resignation
interrupting a game; time out
long time; long interval; for quite some time
to be intimate with; to befriend
today; this day; these days; recently; nowadays
hot (thing); passionate (feelings, etc.); ardent; hot (e.g. temper); zealous; enthusiastic; intense
Mr.; Mrs.; makes a word more polite (usu. in fixed expressions); state; situation
action of making something; -ification
to change into; to convert into; to transform; to be reduced; to influence; to improve (someone)
that; that thing; that person; then; that time; that place (over there); down there (i.e. one's genitals)
New Year (esp. first three days); first month of the year; January
battledore (early form of badminton racket)
kagami mochi; New Year offering consisting of two mochi stacked on each other with a bitter orange on top, cut and eaten on January 11
happy; auspicious; propitious; naive
something like ...; things like ...; someone like ...; the likes of ...
strange; odd; unexpected; change; incident; disturbance
rice gruel traditionally eaten on the 7th day of the new year containing the seven plants of spring
delicious; tasty; sweet; attractive; appealing; convenient
people; men and women; each person; everybody
to protect; to guard; to defend; to keep (i.e. a promise); to abide (by the rules); to observe
for; for the sake of; to one's advantage; because of; as a result of
three; three years of age
flame; blaze; flames (of intense emotion, e.g. love, jealousy, anger); passion